3 consecutive days reaching 27°C + qualifies. So what? Is there a hot weather payment to older folk? Of course not.

It's a reference with no point.

Define it yourselves. How does it feel?

Also, I'm starting to think Tove Janssen has a Bristol follower.

26C is not really a heatwave as it just warm I think it should be 30C to 32C classed as a heatwave.  Cyprus consider 41 or over classed as a heatwave.

You’re right. 26 isn’t a heatwave

As for the rest of your post you might as well say you prefer beef to chicken because it tastes of beef and chicken doesn’t 

Indeed 28c should be the threshold for all of England apart from Cumbria and Northumberland.  27c for rest of UK.

Heat coming back next weekend- but not scary heat. Just seen 31C for August 1st. I wonder what August has to offer.  🙂🙂

It offers 3½ minutes less daylight per day, on average, so even if the heat returns it won't feel quite as severe. (By comparison, we've lost 37 minutes of daylight down here in the last month, we'll lose that in 10 days in August).

I wouldn't be surprised to see another hot spell at some point, the atmosphere seems primed for it this year. Any hurricanes that head our way though will no doubt make it less predictable, they always add a bit of chaos to the forecasts!

Meanwhile, back in Watford, these were the highest temperatures for the last days of the heatwave.

July

17th - 29.7c

16th - 30.9c

15th - 30.3c

14th - 29.3c

13th - 29.3c

12th - 31.8c

The super El Niño should mean a very weak / non-existent hurricane season, so less likelihood of interference than most years. 

Interesting to note that strong hurricane seasons tend to correlate with warm settled early Autumns, as the low pressure in the Atlantic acts as a pump for the AH. A couple of years ago I ran a correlation between the two (ACE and Sept rainfall) for a vineyard blog, and the pattern was quite clear. So that might imply a more unsettled September this year, all being equal. I hope not. Need a good Sept for the grapes. 

It might seem like an exceptional month at the moment but with ongoing climate change, that is increasingly becoming more of the norm and so, there has to come a point eventually when a month like this one is then just seen as just being a typical normal month, rather than one which is great or exceptional.

I'm certain there will become that point as you mention and I know down here in the South has been exceptional, however I would hope and think it will be a good few decades before this comes the norm.

Our 2018 July was what I considered exceptional with an average daily max of 26.5c, that was well above anything except the well-known record anomalous years. This year will undoubtedly top that, and probably easily.

Will this year be beaten? Yes I'm sure it will but to become the norm I think will take time... just my view.

A exceptional run of temperatures.

Yes, that’s probably right enough.

However, we’re already at the stage where we just don’t get changeable weather any more like what we used to and that in itself is already quite a massive change in what is climatically a very short period of time.

Our summers used to be predominantly cool and unsettled. In those days, we would get the odd decent one with 1976 being just one example of that, but those types of summers were very rare back then. Nowadays though, that is no longer the case.

 Even today, I still can’t say that we never get any changeable weather but more often than not now, we keep on getting stuck under high pressure which then brings the same weather pattern for weeks to even months on end, and that never used to be the case.

Sept 1995 was very wet so might be a repeat then very dry October that semi parched appear again until early November gone back to green. It was the shortest Autumn ever recorded with first winter snowfall came late November and summery weather ended end of October. 

A slight update on this, Westonzoyland actually reached 27.6C on the 18th.

https://wow.metoffice.gov.uk/observations/details/20260719k4ph67cd9ce9dcu6xusa4hpdme 

27.0C reached today at Bramham - not a regular "warmest place" so still just one day has failed to reach 27 this month.

Interesting to see Bramham hit 27c. On Sunday evening I complained to the Met Office about their regional forecast for Monday asking what they were playing at with ' Largely dry and cloudy Maximum temperature 19c'.  

My family read that forecast and were thinking of not going to the outdoor Lido. I managed to convince them it would be wrong and as it happens I was correct,  long sunny spells and very warm.  The Automated even showed warm temps so no idea what the forecaster was thinking, 8c out ! . But it's a regular occurrence, I think they might sometimes not know Yorkshire isn't in NW Scotland. 

My main point to the Met Office is you can't have the automated showing 25c and text forecast showing 19c max! 

Yeah London is quite a grim place