BBC Monthly Outlook

Summary
Dry and warm periods are likely in September

Saturday 2 September to – Sunday 10 September
Mostly dry and warm then unsettled later.

Monday 11 September to – Sunday 17 September
Becoming more settled again.

Monday 18 September to – Sunday 1 October
Potentially more unsettled by late September.

Further ahead

There might be clearer signs in the updated models of the pattern shifting round later in September, although the tropical Atlantic is still likely to have a say in the outcome.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/outlook 

The UKHSA have issued an amber heatwave alert for all areas of England except North East England
 
The warning is valid until 9pm on Sunday

Quite a collection of showers beginning to show up on charts from Sunday onwards. Most models favour SW Scotland for some rain, but the Meto and MeteoGroup (BBC) predicting something thundery in the SE

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Don't know if it's been on before (I suspect it was made before 2022), but C5 had one of their light-hearted documentaries on earlier, this about the 1976 heatwave/drought.

I quite enjoyed it!

I was only 4 & half that summer, but have a number of memories. One thing that did strike me was how people coped in cars without aircon.

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I was only 4 & half that summer, but have a number of memories. One thing that did strike me was how people coped in cars without aircon.

That was the summer that I spent, from the Whit halfterm onwards, weekend commuting between Manchester and Kent, having not managed to synchronise change of job with sale of house. I assure you that whatever memories you may have of Lancashire at that time, the conditions were basically pretty normal compared to what Kent was experiencing.

The then new rolling stock on British Rail was air-conditioned which was fine until it broke down, as happened on one occasion, and there were no windows that could be opened for a breeze.

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I see the Met Office site has a new and improved daily weather extremes page, with all the regions on one page:

https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/observations/weather-extremes 

It's hidden away under the "Climate" section of their menu, but at least there is actually a link to it now - for a long time the only way to get the last 24 hours extremes was via a page on the old version of their site, with no link from their homepage!

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I see the Met Office site has a new and improved daily weather extremes page, with all the regions on one page:

https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/observations/weather-extremes 

It's hidden away under the "Climate" section of their menu, but at least there is actually a link to it now - for a long time the only way to get the last 24 hours extremes was via a page on the old version of their site, with no link from their homepage!

I did say in the current conditions thread during yesterday that we were doing very well for sunshine here in Edinburgh despite the unsettled conditions at the time, and it turns out that from the information in the above link, Edinburgh Gogarbank was actually the sunniest place in the whole of the UK during yesterday according to the Met Office.

I know that's slightly off topic for this particular thread, but it's good that we can now get that information from the Met Office website once again.
 

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I see the Met Office site has a new and improved daily weather extremes page, with all the regions on one page:

https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/observations/weather-extremes 

It's hidden away under the "Climate" section of their menu, but at least there is actually a link to it now - for a long time the only way to get the last 24 hours extremes was via a page on the old version of their site, with no link from their homepage!

I'll bookmark that. Not found it for ages. Cheers. 👍

BBC Monthly Outlook

Summary
Drier by early October but wet again by mid-month

Saturday 23 September to – Sunday 1 October
Often wet and windy

Monday 2 October to – Sunday 8 October
Drier for a while, mainly in the south and east

Monday 9 October to – Sunday 22 October
Turning wetter again by mid-October

Further ahead
When we next look at the models, we'll hope that there is better agreement on October's happenings; but early to mid-autumn is a notoriously difficult period for model guidance.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/outlook