I'm just scrutinising Google Maps to see why this will be unacceptable to the social media crowd. No airfield, seems to be in the middle of a pine forest. I can't actually find the Stevenson screen on the aerial view but I would assume it is at the Forestry Commission HQ?

Edit: pretty sure this is the weather station here: 52.4591907, 0.6711903

I think these are decayed remains of thunderstorms that occurred early this morning over NW France.

Suggests 38C+ could be on the table if the airmass doesn't pull away to the east too quickly.

Met Office now forecastthe max here for today as 34c, hotter than yeasterday.

Re the cloud. It patchy shallow altocumulus, as yet its really not making a dent and massive patches of blue still.

Very likely.

If you look in the Channel, you can make out the higher (decayed thunderstorms) tops of the clouds to the east and lower cloud (sea fog) to the west.

Correct me if I am wrong please.

|t seems to be part of a change of air mass as it's currently 24.9C here when it was well over 30C this time yesterday. It feels lovely.

11.50am 34.0C, humidity 48%.

The latter has been steadily falling and at the moment, conditions are far more pleasant than they were yesterday at 32C. We can, though,feel pulses of warmer air coming through our living room door!

Ecowitt station map is reporting similar data - 33C to 37C from around 20 stations of various types within 5 miles of us. 37C at Debenham (the school, I believe)

[Edit] 12.10. 34.6C, 45%

[Further edit] 12.30, 35.2C 43% This time yesterday it was 27.2C, 66%. Currently reminding me of a walk round Matera in southern Italy a few years ago.

They do seem to have some slightly cooler air behind them though. The clouds are just about clearing through here now but the temperature has dropped a degree in the past hour

It's not official.

You may be right, I think NW of London into East Anglia will be the record breaker today. They will keep cloudless for longest.

Suffolk / Norfolk the place to watch 

  Doubt the same can be said for north and east Kent as the heat shift towards there.

Chris Fawkes on the BBC website says the high minimum last night was 22.7 at Herstmonceux, so not quite as warm as Cardiff the previous night.

BTW we also missed out on a thickness record, by the looks of it, unless today's from Hertsmonceux beat it. GFS has 578 at midday with 579 in the afternoon (but readings are only taken at 11Z and 23Z).

It definitely can't! There's a breeze here too, but from the WSW, and it's a baking, drying breeze. 

It's just hit 35C here (21.7 dewpoint), only the 3rd time it's managed it in my life (Aug 03 and Jul 22 being the other two - and both of those were over mid-afternoon as a sea breeze kicked in. That's unlikely to happen today).

It feels pleasant here, way to the west of you after the mid-thirties of recent days. 

What's your record?

There's some cloud here at the moment and it's actually quite windy. I may need to put the parasol down. 

Upstairs indoors is 3deg warmer lol.