37.9 has been recorded at Heathrow.

This has been confirmed by Sky but not yet by the Metoffice. They must be preparing their tweet lol

We are 0.6C off the new record.

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It still looks relatively clear in the Writtle direction it must be very close now to the record.

 

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Would like to get some input from Stormchaser here, but I reckon thin high cloud at this time of day can actually be useful as it may cause more incoming longwave than blocks incoming shortwave. You see this effect in the Arctic in late summer, in late July cloud is good as it blocks sunshine, in August its bad because it causes more incoming LW.

Good thought. This comes up with respect to the Arctic sometimes. It matters a great deal what type of cloud there is.

I just stood out in the sun for 5 mins in Bicester where it appears to be at least 36*C now. There’s a hot wind that soon makes your eyes crackle if you face into it. The air is absolutely blazing even in the shade. Feels more like the Middle East than England, yet hotter as humidity isn’t quite so low here.

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If it was cloud free today we would have hit 40c no question. 

I'm not so sure. 40c is near on impossible in this country I'd say.

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Are we starting to see the hottest of the upper air arriving. Not a lot of soundings in here today.

And Hi Jiries. It peaked at 38.3 at 3.15 pm before dropping back to the current 34.8 c. Like I said, while my own Vantage Vue station will never be accepted as official data (even though it was reading 21.5 c in full sunshine roughly this time yesterday), I might as well say it was the first time I had experienced a 100 F shade temperature when I popped outside for a time.

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At 42.4C, Paris now has a higher all time record than Madrid.

https://actualite.lachainemeteo.com/actualite-meteo/2019-07-25/direct-canicule-records-de-chaleur-pulverises-42-4c-a-paris-41-1c-a-lille-51708

That's madness. 

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37.9 has been recorded at Heathrow.

This has been confirmed by Sky but not yet by the Metoffice. They must be preparing their tweet lol

We are 0.6C off the new record.

 

100f if confrimed

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Rather incredibly, the temperature at Edinburgh Gogarbank has just shot up to 30.9°C as at 3pm this afternoon which has now set a new all time record for the highest temperature which I have ever recorded at any of my three local stations since I first joined TWO back in the summer of 2016.

That might even also be a new all time record for that particular station and has come as a result of an increase in the temperature by a massive 4.8°C in just the last hour.

Who knows where this might end up going next.

 

Get outside and enjoy it if you can John!

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If it was cloud free today we would have hit 40c no question. 

It's been cloudless IMBY until recently (first thing this morning excepted), as it has at Brogdale. I suspect the temperature from there will be interesting - hopefully it'll be reported tomorrow.

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35 C at least in York, Leeds and Nottingham and 31 C in Edinburgh, all potential records after verification. Loads of medium level towers shooting up here in Otley, Wharfedale

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The temperature on my PWS at home has been fluctuating up and down as cloud has come and gone. In the last half hour it's been clear and gone up from 35.2C to 35.8C, just a shade below my new maximum of 35.9C which it reached at 2.28pm.

Cloud is coming up from the south though, so I suspect it won't go any higher today.

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Really windy here but has reached 31.2C an hour ago, with humidity below 50% it is not uncomfortable

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Now 33C at Manchester Airport - a smidgen off the all time record.

35C at Manchester University.

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3 minutes until new data

Brace brace brace.

This could be it. Now or never.

 

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People may be glad to know that WeatherUnderground are once again display to decimal places.

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My max today was 36.6c

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Northolt 37.6c at 4 pm

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People may be glad to know that WeatherUnderground are once again display to decimal places.

 

Yeh just noticed that too.

 

BTW - sorry to go off topic, but did anyone else notice the weather station historical data has gone from being able to show yearly, to just Monthly now?

 

Anyone know the story about that?

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Throwing the towel in here. There is just too much cloud and it’s too late in the day. What a shame.

Fingers crossed somewhere hits the magic number

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Reports beginning to appear that it has been called as the "second hottest day on record". 

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