Seem Birmingham not reached 38C 100F? as there not on the list, nearest to me is Coleshill than Coventry which my app Nuneaton briefly reached 39C 

Birmingham airport reached 37C and Winterbourne 37.4. Coleshill was the nearest to break 38 but didn't beat the old record, which was my cutoff for that list.

Incidentally, I have found a link to one of the other mystery manual stations, Denver Complex near Downham Market. It looks like they may only upload their data once a month as there are only figures up to 1 July!

https://wow.metoffice.gov.uk/observations/details/2022062911z6yt85qee63pqxyyb96scn7a

So there's a very very outside chance we might have another challenger.

A better placed manual station appears on the Met Office list, Tetford near Horncastle in Lincs, but there is no sign of it on WOW.

 

Birmingham airport reached 37C and Winterbourne 37.4. Coleshill was the nearest to break 38 but didn't beat the old record, which was my cutoff for that list.

 

Incidentally, I have found a link to one of the other mystery manual stations, Denver Complex near Downham Market. It looks like they may only upload their data once a month as there are only figures up to 1 July!

 

https://wow.metoffice.gov.uk/observations/details/2022062911z6yt85qee63pqxyyb96scn7a

 

So there's a very very outside chance we might have another challenger.

A better placed manual station appears on the Met Office list, Tetford near Horncastle in Lincs, but there is no sign of it on WOW.

Thanks for replying and really surprised how low 37C in Birmingham and perhaps the geographic area limited the heat amount compare to Nuneaton which is only 12 miles north east from there.  Nuneaton not far from Leicester and after that Nottingham.

40c Heat, A One Off Or More To Come? - CW Weather (chorleyweather.com)

An interesting article.

Apparently Fair Isle set its highest ever temperature yesterday as well 22.6c

Just searching through the WOW website and there are three other manual stations in the 39s that got missed off.

Wakefield (Thornes Park) 39.5C

Buntingford No 2 39.2C

Cawood 39.1C

Denver Complex (Norfolk), Wallington (Northumberland) and Oxford Radcliffe only report monthly so there's a while to wait there.

Does anyone know what the CET was for yesterday? It must've smashed the record.

28.1C mean, so almost 3C above the old record of 25.3C from July 2019)

37.3C max (pre-2022 record was 34.2C, although July 18 was 34.8C)

18.9C minimum, second highest on record (record is 19.5C in July 2016)

 

28.1C mean, so almost 3C above the old record of 25.3C from July 2019)

37.3C max (pre-2022 record was 34.2C, although July 18 was 34.8C)

18.9C minimum, second highest on record (record is 19.5C in July 2016)

Wow - that's extraordinary.  I don't think that will be beaten for some considerable time.

Thanks for the info Rob

 

Wow - that's extraordinary.  I don't think that will be beaten for some considerable time.

Thanks for the info Rob

It's pretty amazing really. The average CET maximum would have been a new UK temperature record before 2003. Never mind 40C being reached, I think this is the most incredible stat of the day. Just shows the enormous extent of the heat.

 

It's pretty amazing really. The average CET maximum would have been a new UK temperature record before 2003. Never mind 40C being reached, I think this is the most incredible stat of the day. Just shows the enormous extent of the heat.

 Yes!  I think it was the extent of the heat that made this so remarkable and is what it should be remembered for, because previous records have been quite localised.

This is very true but let's not forget that the overall record was broken by a massive 1.6C. Now for a reliable record of around 150 years that's a huge jump. In an essentially stable climate in that time period we should surely only be expecting records in mere increments, a tenth of a degree here, a couple of tenths there and even then only ocurring every few decades.This is even bigger than the jump between 1990 and 2003 which was in itself was a remarkable 1.4C. Amazing to think that prior to 1990 we hadn't even hit 37C.

 

This is very true but let's not forget that the overall record was broken by a massive 1.6C. Now for a reliable record of around 150 years that's a huge jump. In an essentially stable climate in that time period we should surely only be expecting records in mere increments, a tenth of a degree here, a couple of tenths there and even then only ocurring every few decades.This is even bigger than the jump between 1990 and 2003 which was in itself was a remarkable 1.4C. Amazing to think that prior to 1990 we hadn't even hit 37C.

It was just incredible and such a jump.

E.g
Coningsby beat it's previously warmest temperature by 5.5c.
Officially, the temperature (37.4) at Bingley at 262m on a windswept Pennine Moor (not a warm place at all normally!) was higher than anywhere else in the UK had experienced until 2003.

37.4C at Bingley is perhaps the most impressive result of them all. Simply incredible. 

It was just incredible and such a jump.

E.g
Coningsby beat it's previously warmest temperature by 5.5c.
Officially, the temperature (37.4) at Bingley at 262m on a windswept Pennine Moor (not a warm place at all normally!) was higher than anywhere else in the UK had experienced until 2003.

Bingley has a higher record temperature than cities like Bristol and Southampton now

 

Bingley has a higher record temperature than cities like Bristol and Southampton now

 Yes, down here it did not get that hot in comparison to further north. . Only up to 34c on the monday here.. Bit strange really as the heat was coming from the south. . 

Maybe in years to come it will be one of those "do you remember where you were when it happened" moments.

The rate things are changing the answer might be…..Earth?