Lovely to see many viewing this thread as if we have snow report.  Now cooling down to 30C here and some clouds around so it over now.  

The showers that are falling are pathetic as well. Total nuisance value. Literally

It's a shame we don't have more inner city official stations.

Rostherne and Manchester Airport for example are not fully representative of here.

Anyway - Manchester Airport is back down to 32C so I think we've peaked. Would have loved to have guaranteed a 34c report.

Bingley at 260masl on open moorland has hit 33.0c.  Previous record was 31.6c - Record shattered.  

Its a right shame we don't have a more extensive reporting network. To be fare though, the cloud in the end did cover alot of the SE

I wasn't challenging you - just wondering if you had any info on its likely accuracy.

The situation is ridiculous. In this day and age all reports should be available within minutes via a live feed. I appreciate record readings are subject to verification but really we shouldn't be dithering around wondering whether Brogdale notched out a few tenths of a C.

Question is, which one will we see first?

-30C or +40C?

I have sent the National Centre for Atmsopheric Science (who appear to run it) an email. Will let you know.

Bradford Lister Park also seems to have shattered its record. At least 33.4c, beating the previous record of 32.2c

Brogdale keep a weather station for their own purposes, as they grow over 2000 varieties of apples and pears etc.. They don't need to replace their equipment just to please the internet. Anyway the chap I spoke to there recently said they don't pay much attention to their station except during periods of extreme weather, so I am sure they will have been keeping an eye on things today and we'll hear soon enough if anything interesting happened.

Do you happen to have the historical data for Manchester Airport anywhere?

Rostherne is a new station and replaced Woodford, if I recall.

I doubt if Brogdale will be close to the record, as Kent wasn't really the hot spot this time round. However if the manual station at Cambridge Botanic Gardens is still there it might have beaten the 38.1C nearby.

Yes, with technology the way it is we could do a lot better. In fact I would say its embarrassing. If that Bedford station did break its pathetic.

By +40C do you mean 41 and up? 

Anyway i think -30C will happen first (officially)

According to this report by Sean Batty who is the main person at STV (which is the Scottish equivalent of ITV) Weather, Edinburgh has had its hottest day on record today with a temperature of 31.2°C, so it turns out that Edinburgh Gogarbank wasn't even the hottest station here in Edinburgh today.

That beat the previous record of 30.0°C which was set at the botanic gardens in Edinburgh back in 1975.

I think Cambridge Airport tends to have higher maxes in these events than both Cambridge NIAB and Cambridge Botanic Garden. There's a chance it might beat 38.1, but a small one.

Only the info on Wikipedia but not sure on it's accuracy as the references don't seem to work for Manchester.

Getting weather data is hard work. The Met Office website should have far more information available.

Did there used to be a Manchester weather centre ?

EDIT the best I can do is:  try Weatheronline and the history section , records for Manchester go way back, but you have to read off the graph.  I assume August 3rd 1990 was the highest temp at Manchester Airport at 34.x

I guess the only hope left is the 18:00 reports from the MetOffice. How many stations report at the end of the day that were in the prime locations?

It could of been worse today we got 100f and over 38c but its frustrating to get so close. 

37c seems to be a temperature that the UK has struggled to get to just twice before today, be interesting how many times we get over 37c in the next 10 years or so, if it becomes common then Global Warming is really starting to kick in.

https://en.tutiempo.net/climate/1990/ws-33340.html

I think the Manchester Airport record was 34C in August 1990. So we didn't quite make it today (I think!)

Ill take that. But it’s little consolation considering 38.1 was so close. It’s never ever straightforward in this country! In Winter or Summer.

I can see storms breaking out and the irony is they are too Far East now.

Everything gets ruined by cloud. The bloody eclipse was ruined as well 

Would it be though? Or perhaps just evidence of the ever increasing urbanisation of the UK, and over on the nearby european mainland due to the out if control population growth's.