It getting very boring with same suspect places getting those heat, how about Leeds, York, Manchester, Birmingham, Bristol, Oxford for a change?  I am sure those cities can reach 30C today if there was no clouds in the morning which take away the rising temps time.  Not sure why Oxford does not get high temps as they are very central place in the Uk away from the coasts.  

Extreme heat? How about the hottest day in May ever and the three hottest days ever in June. Consistency of heat? Already more 30C days than the whole of 1976 and only one max below 25C (and that was 24.9) since the 15th of June. Nationwide involvement? CET the highest since the 19th Century in June and an extraordinary first half of July nearly matching 1976. Also an almost complete absence of rain in the last month. Just needs some storms to make it complete

I agree with this. I know some people will say they don't like X, Y or Z, but it's important to remember that:

"No, it is not necessary for you to like something to accept that it is a classic.

A status of "classic" relies on objective, collective consensus and enduring cultural impact, whereas liking something is a subjective personal preference."

Looks like 30.4 was the highest in the end, at Heathrow, with Teddington on 30.3. The max here was recorded very late, at 6.33pm.

Tomorrow and Thursday also look like going to the wire, based on UKV output. What happened to all those 34s and 35s modelled for this week?

Looking forward to a warm spell 🙂

Bristol has been 30 and above or close to, every day for the last couple of weeks, and also in the previous two heatwaves 

The Met Office has downgraded Sunday's forecast to around 23°C but continues those temperatures into next Monday and Tuesday.

For me, that will be fine as I will traveling down to Hawick in the Scottish Borders on Monday to spend a couple of weeks with my family (my parents are both very elderly now, and need a bit of looking after). If we get some sunshine with that, that will then allow me to be able to spend some time in my Mum's garden when I get down there.

Here in Edinburgh though, the Sun always finds a way through that in the end under this type of weather pattern and as I write, it has already started to brighten up here.

When this will end this horrible cloudy mornings that I don't like, I am more morning sun person than late sunshine which is no use as it setting down.  Did not see the sunrise for a long time now and also why all the talk of high SST's that supposed to prevent clouds forming but it seem more like fake news and the sea temps still very cold or below average to me. The winds is very cold this morning so I have to close all the window which was ajar open since June shut fully to keep the house warm.  

Sunny - sun feeling stronger than recently.

Light breeze 

Hurn also now above 27.

Temperatures in far south are rising very quickly atm.

A couple of stations give '28' but no decimal place.

29.2 at Hurn at 2pm, should be able to hit 30.

The heat from the south is quite impressive.

Think it's 14, set in July 2006

This is an 'adiabatic heatwave' or a 'heat dome' which is very very unusual for the UK. Essentially we have a powerful deep anticyclone with near record geopotentials above about 850hpa and extending well above 500hpa. These deep semi-permanent anticyclones do not usually exist at our latitudes. There are basically three in the NHem summer; one over the southern USA, one over north Africa and Arabia, and one over central Asia. 

What seems to happen is almost like a 'reverse 2010', instead of a bit of polar vortex breaking off and migrating to latitudes where it doesn't belong; instead we have a bit of the 'hadley anticyclone' break away from north africa and come to settle over Europe and the UK. The air is descending synoptically at levels we do not usually see. So it doesn't much matter what the surface winds are doing if ultra high potential temperature air is sitting 3000m+ above our heads that is easily able to descend and introduce warm air from above. Understand that potential temperature, is the temperature accounting for pressure; its only really cold upstairs because the pressure is low; once you have accounted for the pressure its actually warmer higher up and that's even more the case in ultra thick anticyclones.

I wonder, what happens if we combine 2026 with 2022. We have a heat dome like 2026, but as the dome starts to decay, we get a plume of 2022 magnitudes.