32.2, dew 22.9.

This is pretty remarkable, really, as temperatures seldom get far into the 30s this close to the coast - normally a sea breeze sets in around the 30 mark, skewing the typical SE'lies NE'ly, but not this time... the steering flow is from the south, soon to veer SSW, and that's completely cancelled the breeze.

It's definitely a day to be indoors, hunkering down away from the heat and, more importantly, the humidity. (The doctor's surgery had the flaw of leaving their door open, so all the heat/humidity just swept right in. On a day like today, you want as little in-out transfer of air as possible. Same goes for my neighbours over the road, with their windows wide open... hope they enjoy the 32C air that'll be wafting inside!)

Edit: also 32.4C at Wisley, and 32.5C at Iver the front runner.

I don't think the Met O count Lakenheath not sure why. Cambridge NIAB though has also got to 90f 32.3c

https://www.weatherobs.com/ 

The wind, little though there is, is still (just) east of south, and the dewpoint remains between 22 and 23.

My guess is that it'll top out at between 34.8c and 35.2c.

Cloud has returned here in Hants, certainly taken the edge off the feel of the heat.

The dewpoint is 22.9c so only a couple of points below the 23.1c max I have recorded here - weirdly that was last September, but likely to go today I reckon.

And just 20 minutes later it is back to clear if slightly hazy blue. Strange day with sudden lurches from clear sky to full overcast and back.

Probably arrived at Heathrow - temp dropped 1.5C in 20 mins, from 32.8 at 1300Z to 31.3 at 1320Z.

I'm now going into full defensive mode - targetting my portable a/c in one room only, as the rest are now becoming uncomfortably warm... 24 to 29C in the various rooms in the house at the moment, 33.1 / dew 22.6 with a high so far of 33.6.

I feel for those who've left their windows open, they'll now have a house in the mid 30s!

That's what gets me - in the old days we'd have had a cracking natural fireworks display tonight, as the plume cleared away. Instead we'll get... nothing, except very sweaty! I don't envy you in your flat - I hope you're not on the top floor, and I hope you have two aspects so can at least try for a through-breeze tonight.

Incidentally here, against all the odds, a sea breeze has set up! The temperature's gone down over 2C in the past 15minutes... and now, while I'm typing this,  it's going back up again, as the breeze veers back to the south. Pah, that raised my hopes and dashed them most expertly! (It was 31.3 when I started typing this, now it's 31.7 a couple of minutes later. That sea breeze is potent IF you can get it!)

UKV had 35C only just across the Humber. A long way off.

There were a couple of troughs marked on the charts drifting W-E but with all the activity (ie th'orms) in the N of the country. I walked from Bournemouth to Christchurch along the beach this morning and watched fairly narrow bands of cloud slowly, ever so slowly, pass over. Temps when I left Christchurch 25. Getting home on the train, I went under one of these bands again and then it was 29.

Probably made it a month ago 😀