Tell me about it, to both Gusty and Llamedos.  

Just out of interest, what was the UK's all-time highest temperature record prior to the 37.1C recorded in August 1990? I'm guessing it was set during the scorching summer of 1976?

36.7c I believe David. Set in August 1911.

The highest temperature recorded in 1976 was 35.9c. 

I don't recall much about the summers of 1983 and 1984 as both were during my pre-school days. I do believe though that it got quite hot in parts of Scotland during those two years, as high as 30C. However, I was 9 in the summer of '89 and I recall that summer as having a lot of fabulously sunny and very warm weather in June and July, but August was a bit of a disappointment. In some ways, it was a bit like 2018 which also went somewhat downhill in August after a great June and July.

Thanks Steve, much appreciated!

Quick repost. 26C seems banked so 42C should not be suprising.

The door is still open for 43C if the upgrades on the plume strength continue.

The Met Office have slightly downgraded Tuesday's temperature forecast for Hawick in the Scottish Borders to 29°C, but the BBC are still going for 30°C at that same location on that same day.

For the record, the actual highest ever recorded temperature here in Scotland was 32.9°C in a village called Greycrook which is located just to the SE of the town of Newtown St. Boswells which is also in the Scottish Borders (the same town as where the Scottish Borders Council has its HQ), and well to the NE of Hawick.

That record was set on 9 August 2003.

With that slight downgrade in the forecast temperatures for that area, it is now slightly less likely that this record will actually be beaten on this occasion, although I still wouldn't want to be completely ruling that out.

I wonder what the highest temperature was in Scotland in late July 2019 when the current UK record temp was set. I do recall it being pretty hot here on 25th July '19, but I don't think anywhere in Scotland reached 30C. I stand corrected if I am wrong about that, though.

Actually, 15 consecutive days in the UK of 32c or more.  Five of those days topped 35c.

And I am think I am right in saying that nothing since, despite peak temperatures several degrees higher, has come anywhere near that feat.

July 1983 (second warmest CET month of the 20th century) when 90F was headline news.

How times have changed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKyuH4bRzBM

Peaked here briefly at 26.1 but was above 25 from 4 to just after 5.

Actually, I can correct you on that one because the temperature on that very day reached 31.6°C at Edinburgh Gogarbank to give Edinburgh its hottest day on record as confirmed in this Wikipedia article.

That was a day which I remember very well, but I also remember it feeling slightly cooler here in the north of Edinburgh due to a breeze from off the North Sea which was enough to peg the temperatures back at the botanic gardens in Edinburgh to just 26.2°C (although even that was still hot enough as it was).

That is something which I have been highlighting on here quite a lot recently, so I'm surprised that you haven't actually noticed that.

I'm not sure what the highest temperature in Scotland was at that time though, although that was obviously clearly above 30°C given that this was the case even here in Edinburgh at that time.

 Yes July , August 83 was a real fine hot spell, broke on the 2nd September and was followed by some very cool weather.

 Although we are going to see higher temps soon, this area has not reached 90f this year, only 84f

UK heatwave tracker has been updated with this evening's data.

https://www.theweatheroutlook.com/weather-news/6263/uk-heatwave-tracker-july-2022

For me it would be 1995. That is still the daddy of all summers I have lived through for me. I wasn't born until late 1979 and so obviously wasn't here to experience the 1976 summer.

Then one thing I recall about the latter part of the 1995 summer was the number of times comparisons were made by numerous media outlets between the persistent heat and sun of that year and the summer of 1976. I had seen one or two TV programmes prior to 1995 about the summer of '76 and how hot and dry it was.

2018 was on course to equal or even better 1995 IMO for persistence of good weather, but it broke down somewhat in the past few days of July and August was something of a disappointment in my area at least.

 Sort of more modern Three Men in a Boat

Summer 1911 really was extraordinary - probably considered the "Great Summer" before 1976 came along. Hot weather from early July right up to the middle of September. Not only did we have the 36.7°C on 9 August, there was also a remarkable 34.6°C on 8 September.

Then interestingly enough, 1912 was a disaster. August 1912 was not only the coldest on record, it was also the wettest and dullest on record too!

I might be wrong about this Steve, but IIRC July 1983 was the hottest CET month of the 20th century and remained so until it was toppled by the same month in 2006.

Interestingly, the hot August of 1995 came very close to matching or beating July '83 if I remember correctly, finishing only 0.3C below and is still the hottest August on record, I believe.