Historic Heat Watch | Hottest UK day ever recorded?· Page 7

Whether Idle
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25 July 2019 10:49:04

Kew Gardens is still leading Heathrow, surprisingly: 33.4C at 11am compared to 33.1 at LHR. So all the tarmac naysayers will have to try another angle... reflections from the greenhouses? ;)

Originally Posted by: Rob K

indeed Rob. I’d also keep an eye on the readings publicised from Brogdale tomorrow when the readings for today are released from this manual station. It wa 33c on the car thermometer at 0915 this morning. Bonkers.

Dover, 5m asl. Half a mile from the south coast.

Quantum
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25 July 2019 10:50:45

#152

Kew gardens is where the 2003 record happened wasn't it?

I reckon it will be Kew/Northolt/Heathrow

I'm skeptical it will be Cambridge or somewhere further north. A large part of the temperature is the local environment and surface which the models will not resolve at most resolutions avalible to us.

2023/2024 Snow days (approx 850hpa temp):
29/11 (-6), 30/11 (-6), 02/12 (-5), 03/12 (-5), 04/12 (-3), 16/01 (-3), 18/01 (-8), 08/02 (-5)

Total: 8 days with snow/sleet falling.

2022/2023 Snow days (approx 850hpa temp):

18/12 (-1), 06/03 (-6), 08/03 (-8), 09/03 (-6), 10/03 (-8), 11/03 (-5), 14/03 (-6)

Total: 7 days with snow/sleet falling.

2021/2022 Snow days (approx 850hpa temp):

26/11 (-5), 27/11 (-7), 28/11 (-6), 02/12 (-6), 06/01 (-5), 07/01 (-6), 06/02 (-5), 19/02 (-5), 24/02 (-7), 30/03 (-7), 31/03 (-8), 01/04 (-8)
Total: 12 days with snow/sleet falling.

John p
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25 July 2019 10:52:26

#153

A lot of cloud here now and temperature struggling to get above 29c

Originally Posted by: Frank H

Can I ask people to state their locations, instead of just saying 'here', as locations in profiles don't appear on the mobile view.

Camberley, Surrey

Whether Idle
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25 July 2019 10:53:23

#154

Kew gardens is where the 2003 record happened wasn't it?

I reckon it will be Kew/Northolt/Heathrow

I'm skeptical it will be Cambridge or somewhere further north. A large part of the temperature is the local environment and surface which the models will not resolve at most resolutions avalible to us.

Originally Posted by: Quantum

No the 2003 Record is held by the manual station at Faversham (Brogdale) meaning there is sometimes a days delay. The record to beat is 38.5c

Dover, 5m asl. Half a mile from the south coast.

The Professional
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25 July 2019 10:58:31

#155

A brief and fast-fizzling shower just passed through (S to N) here to the north of Winchester, dropping the temperature fractionally below 30. Very, very strange to experience what really felt like a tropical shower here in southern England.

james
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25 July 2019 11:00:13

#156

The Brogdale station is in the National Fruit Collection orchards, and is not operated by the Met Office. The 2003 reading from there beating the 38.1 at Gravesend on the same day was only made public seven weeks after the event.

Tim A
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25 July 2019 11:01:40

#157

29.0c here at midday. In really good shape to break some local records if the cloud stays away.
Clear skies at present.

Tim
NW Leeds
187m asl

My PWS

picturesareme
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25 July 2019 11:02:23

#158

What makes this the more impressive is it is remote and normally the coolest of all the local stations official or unofficial.

That's almost Florida type conditions now.

Edited by user 25 July 2019 11:04:08 | Reason: Not specified

Russwirral
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25 July 2019 11:02:24

#159

Polar Low: is this site:https://www.cm2weather.co.uk/gauges

an oficial weather station? if so its now at 36*c at 12pm...

Weather station:
https://www.wunderground.com/personal-weather-station/dashboard?ID=IWIRRAL24#history

RobN
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25 July 2019 11:06:31

#160

Cambridge Airport reporting 35C at 12:00.

Rob
In the flatlands of South Cambridgeshire 15m ASL.

Elstevio
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25 July 2019 11:07:19

#161

32.7c here in North Norfolk, in 20 years of recording my highest temp was 34c in 2003. Going to be seriously under threat.

Aylsham, North Norfolk

Rob K
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25 July 2019 11:07:56

#162

33.7C at Heathrow. Slowing down.

34.1C at St James’s Park.

34.3 at Bedford equalling yesterday’s hottest.

Edited by user 25 July 2019 11:21:21 | Reason: Not specified

Yateley, NE Hampshire, 73m asl
"But who wants to be foretold the weather? It is bad enough when it comes, without our having the misery of knowing about it beforehand." — Jerome K. Jerome

Joe Bloggs
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25 July 2019 11:08:18

#163

Some annoying cloud in Manchester now.. we've lost our clear blue sky and it's gone very milky/hazy. I'm annoyed.

29C at Manchester Airport @11:20am .

Manchester University 31.4C but I suspect this is too high.

Manchester City Centre, 31m ASL

Quantum
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25 July 2019 11:09:31

#164

This is a very good station for leeds.

https://sci.ncas.ac.uk/leedsweather/

Shooting up like a rocket. Now on 32.0C

Does anyone have anything similar for London?

I've looked up a bunch of London unis but can't find anything.

2023/2024 Snow days (approx 850hpa temp):
29/11 (-6), 30/11 (-6), 02/12 (-5), 03/12 (-5), 04/12 (-3), 16/01 (-3), 18/01 (-8), 08/02 (-5)

Total: 8 days with snow/sleet falling.

2022/2023 Snow days (approx 850hpa temp):

18/12 (-1), 06/03 (-6), 08/03 (-8), 09/03 (-6), 10/03 (-8), 11/03 (-5), 14/03 (-6)

Total: 7 days with snow/sleet falling.

2021/2022 Snow days (approx 850hpa temp):

26/11 (-5), 27/11 (-7), 28/11 (-6), 02/12 (-6), 06/01 (-5), 07/01 (-6), 06/02 (-5), 19/02 (-5), 24/02 (-7), 30/03 (-7), 31/03 (-8), 01/04 (-8)
Total: 12 days with snow/sleet falling.

Joe Bloggs
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25 July 2019 11:10:46

#165

Rostherne (official station) reporting 30C at 12pm.

Manchester City Centre, 31m ASL

redmoons
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25 July 2019 11:12:44

#166

35.2c at midday in Watford

Andrew,
Watford
ASL 35m
http://weather.andrewlalchan.co.uk

Quantum
Advanced Member

25 July 2019 11:13:45

#167

Heathrow 33.7C at 12pm

Seems to be tailing off. Only 0.6C gain in last hour

2023/2024 Snow days (approx 850hpa temp):
29/11 (-6), 30/11 (-6), 02/12 (-5), 03/12 (-5), 04/12 (-3), 16/01 (-3), 18/01 (-8), 08/02 (-5)

Total: 8 days with snow/sleet falling.

2022/2023 Snow days (approx 850hpa temp):

18/12 (-1), 06/03 (-6), 08/03 (-8), 09/03 (-6), 10/03 (-8), 11/03 (-5), 14/03 (-6)

Total: 7 days with snow/sleet falling.

2021/2022 Snow days (approx 850hpa temp):

26/11 (-5), 27/11 (-7), 28/11 (-6), 02/12 (-6), 06/01 (-5), 07/01 (-6), 06/02 (-5), 19/02 (-5), 24/02 (-7), 30/03 (-7), 31/03 (-8), 01/04 (-8)
Total: 12 days with snow/sleet falling.

Quantum
Advanced Member

25 July 2019 11:14:46

#168

35.0C Cambridge

Perhaps I was wrong about Kew/northolt/Heathrow

All praise the models if they got this right.

Also is heathrow dying due to cloud?

2023/2024 Snow days (approx 850hpa temp):
29/11 (-6), 30/11 (-6), 02/12 (-5), 03/12 (-5), 04/12 (-3), 16/01 (-3), 18/01 (-8), 08/02 (-5)

Total: 8 days with snow/sleet falling.

2022/2023 Snow days (approx 850hpa temp):

18/12 (-1), 06/03 (-6), 08/03 (-8), 09/03 (-6), 10/03 (-8), 11/03 (-5), 14/03 (-6)

Total: 7 days with snow/sleet falling.

2021/2022 Snow days (approx 850hpa temp):

26/11 (-5), 27/11 (-7), 28/11 (-6), 02/12 (-6), 06/01 (-5), 07/01 (-6), 06/02 (-5), 19/02 (-5), 24/02 (-7), 30/03 (-7), 31/03 (-8), 01/04 (-8)
Total: 12 days with snow/sleet falling.

TimS
Advanced Member

25 July 2019 11:15:59

#169

Just arrived in Portsmouth for the ferry. Can confirm it’s clear overhead with a few hazy mid level cloud formations over the channel.

Brockley, South East London 30m asl

speckledjim
Advanced Member

25 July 2019 11:16:18

#170

32c in Leeds

Thorner, West Yorkshire

Journalism is organised gossip

Quantum
Advanced Member

25 July 2019 11:16:38

#171

Bit ahead of schedule now.

Based on the 12pm readings I'd expect the all time record to fall.

If we can stay ahead we are on course for 39C

2023/2024 Snow days (approx 850hpa temp):
29/11 (-6), 30/11 (-6), 02/12 (-5), 03/12 (-5), 04/12 (-3), 16/01 (-3), 18/01 (-8), 08/02 (-5)

Total: 8 days with snow/sleet falling.

2022/2023 Snow days (approx 850hpa temp):

18/12 (-1), 06/03 (-6), 08/03 (-8), 09/03 (-6), 10/03 (-8), 11/03 (-5), 14/03 (-6)

Total: 7 days with snow/sleet falling.

2021/2022 Snow days (approx 850hpa temp):

26/11 (-5), 27/11 (-7), 28/11 (-6), 02/12 (-6), 06/01 (-5), 07/01 (-6), 06/02 (-5), 19/02 (-5), 24/02 (-7), 30/03 (-7), 31/03 (-8), 01/04 (-8)
Total: 12 days with snow/sleet falling.