I get exactly the same thing. As I don't have an Adblocker either I just click on 'Understand' (as in 'I understand that this accusation is false') and carry on.

1976: 24 days

2018: 28 days

1995: 34 days

At the moment the models suggest we will overtake 1976 effortlessly, and potentially tie 2018 by the end of this spell (assuming a run of 30C up to next Friday).

Same

Much the same here and combined with the humidity last night made a difficult night.

Should be in the wildlife thread but this story caught my attention.

https://www.dorsetecho.co.uk/news/26265919.rare-sighting-blue-shark-captured-weymouth-harbour/ 

This is becoming a Classic Summer.

Yep same. 

All 16 days between 30c and 37c

Yes it keeps the run of 30C days going until at least the 25th, which would be 21 consecutive days and 36 days in total, both beating 1976. And would be a CET monthly record by a country mile too.

Swanston was 22.8 earlier then the NE wind arrived, humidity and temperature dropped, we are down to 21.7 C now

It looks as though the temperature at Gogarbank hasn't yet peaked though and the temperature there just now is 22.7°C. When the actual maximum temperature for there is confirmed this evening, that confirmed figure could already be a bit higher than that. This leaves the temperature only needing to rise by up to another 2.3°C between now and 09:00 UTC tomorrow morning for an official heatwave to be recorded there.

Even at the botanic gardens which would be expected to be cooling down even more due to its closer proximity to the sea, the temperature is still holding up at 21.1°C as I write.

I was out and about a short while ago though, and there is a notable breeze from off the North Sea now which can feel fairly cool when you're exposed to that in any way. However, I still found it quite hot in the sunshine, especially when you're sheltered from that breeze (which probably explains why the temperatures are still holding up really well just now despite that breeze). Nevertheless, I will be surprised if the temperatures actually rise any higher today than what they are just now, so I would probably say that the Met Office were almost spot on with their predicted maximum of around 23°C for today.

Edit - still bouncing, back down to 32.4c again

I don't think that is an official Met Office station, but I am sure we will get an official 34.

33.9C matches the date record from 1921.

Edit: 4pm readings have 34.7 at Coton in the Elms and 34.6C at Ross-on-Wye. Could be a sixth 35C which would also be an outright record.

6th 35c day

9th 34c or more day

Met Office confirming first time 35c has been achieved 3 months in a row

Not sure why they have only posted that stat today, when it was over 35 yesterday too?

An utterly bonkers summer so far, and we're not even halfway through it! And I'm really pleased to see one of those obscure little villages get that 6th 35C, too. That, combined with the numerous ways it's beaten 1976 in terms of high temperatures, if not outright duration (yet), will hopefully put an end to the 76-ers and their "it's just summer, we've had it all before" rhetoric.

They waited until the record for number of 35s had gone - as the Tweet shows:

Yes I see they did actually post a release about the 35C in three months at lunchtime today: https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/news-and-media/media-centre/weather-and-climate-news/2026/heatwave-continues-as-uk-records-unprecedented-run-of-35c-days

Some parts of Scotland were fairly warm though - 26.6 in Glasgow and over 29 in the Borders.

21 days over 30C (fourth equal)

9 days over 34C (a record)

6 days over 35C (a record)

14 date records (no idea if that's a record in itself!)