Hit 34.7c here today. Absolutely baking even the usual cool breeze never made it inland. In 22 years of recording it is the highest Temperature I have recorded. Norwich airport recorded 35c which is just up road and verifies my Davis VP2 reading 😎😎😎. 10pm and still 26.2c!

I remember visiting the Holborn site in the 80s when they had a weather shop.

May get more of an opportunity Sunday - Tuesday with the more humid air, which doesn’t cool down as quickly.

This really goes to show just how dire the summers are up in northeast England.. 

From the metoffice this evening:

"This Evening and Tonight:

Fine during the evening, with some hazy sunny spells. Tending to become cloudier and cooler from the northwest as the night progresses, leading to areas of mist, fog and low cloud developing later in the night in light winds. Minimum temperature 7 °C."

Yes that's a regional low of 7C in August  Whilst the southeast of the country bakes with overnight lows in the 20's.

"This Evening and Tonight:

Mainly fine and very warm with light winds during the evening and overnight. One or two fleeting showers are also possible as cloud cover increases a little from the west. Minimum temperature 18 °C."

The temperature at St Catherine’s Point has risen from a low of 21.7C at 8pm to 25.1C at midnight. Crazy.

in fact the highest hourly reading all day was the 11pm one at 25.3C. The “daytime” max was 25.2. I can see that sort of thing happening in winter but it must be pretty rare in summer for the maximum temperature to be close to midnight!

26.6c and increasing again @ 01:34

Some unusual temperatures going on round here at the moment. Not too sure what is going on. 

Quite impressive to see 80F at 1.40am (it defaulted to Fahrenheit when I clicked through). The graph is pretty impressive, barely dipping below 80F before rising again. And the other local stations back it up. 

23.5C here at 12.30am. Highest temp I've ever known after midnight.

really?? 

Backed up by the official record at Langdon Bay, too. Will it hold on for the next few hours to give a record?

(Interesting that like that Brighton record, this is a coastal location... and there's an onshore breeze too!)

Think some showery rain might have pushed through and scuppered the record.

and it can't, it's reporting 24C at 6 AM. Whether that's rounded up remains to be seen...

Just seen your post pop up as I was writing this. A shame, so close!

Yep. A bloody rain shower went over according to the radar. There is always something in this bloody country waiting in the wings to ruin a record.

On another note. Arome going for maxes of 36C today. With variable cloud amounts that could be playing havoc with the model. But could have a sniff at a 37C or 38C of somewhere gets lucky. 850s look on the money and the starting temperature is so much higher today.

There have been some light showers here, too (not that surprising as I'm only 26 miles away)... what's interesting is that although the temperature drops in the showers, it pops straight back up again afterwards. I'm used to that on a "sunshine and showers" afternoon, but before sunrise with no wind... most unusual.

Don't forget the effect of the North Downs either - all depends on wind direction, of course, but in a NE'ly like today you'd expect Maidstone etc to see a boost in temperatures.

Well yes, but that is to be expected. Not only in this country but anywhere. When you are pushing the very outer limits of what's possible everything has to line up just perfectly to make it happen so it's not surprising that potential records can be scuppered at the last moment. I do understand the frustration though!

Dows Maidstone have an official recording site. I hope so. Yes thankfully these showers are light. I think most of the rain on them are evaporating before they even reach the ground. 

Just frustration really. I suppose it’s the same in winter with snow. It’s never straightforward and always on a knife edge of high risk/high reward.

Having been outside there's no sign whatsoever of the showers that have passed over... they were only ligh on the radar and I suspect they did indeed evaoprate before reaching the ground. That's explain the rise in dewpoint too (as it's now 17.3C and rising - it feels almost tropical outside).

Maidstone doesn't have an official station btw, but East Malling (less than 4 miles away) does. For once we have a station in an ideal position for today's expected flow!

EDIT: There's another shower allegedly in progress now, but it's still dry. The dewpoint's still rising steadily though, it's 17.5C now.