The temperature is still rising here. 

http://whitworth.cas.manchester.ac.uk/current/index.html

Currently 31C 

Same as here (in Jamaica) although our dew point is 25⁰C. 

What transpires over the next couple of days will be fascinating and hopefully not too harmful.

Absolutely agree. Hope you’re having a fantastic holiday Doc. 

It reached just under 30C today but the haze surprised me. Could this in part be caused by the Continental fires?

We've lost the deep blue skies and fresher warmth of recent days and it looks almost thundery too.

Fab thanks Joe. 

I shall be returning to the melted remains of Manchester on Wednesday. 

nah...so 2012 mate.

You'll find me in the sea these days. Its warm enough at the moment (nearly 20c !) 

 What you got to remember about 76 there was not all this wall to wall coverage pre the heatwave spells . It was on the radio forecasts and tv and in the paper if you looked. When it turned up and was over 30c for many days in a row  that was the first we really knew about it.

 Yes this hot blast is extreme but it is set to last just 2 days so we should be able to cope.

Highest hourly reading I have seen so far has been 31.1C at Gringley on the Hill - a few miles from Bawtry, another historic hot spot!

Edit: 32.2C at Hawarden actually! Also 31.2 in Nantwich.

 Thunder showers over Torquay , definitely not on the forecast so suggesting the air is not so stable.

Lol 😀 I might go for lunch/dinner down the Malta Inn tomorrow and just throw myself in 😁

My social media seems to be full of people moaning about "today's snowflakes banging on about  a bit of hot weather". In fact the only people mentioning it at all seem to be the boomers moaning about people banging on about it. None of the supposed "snowflake generation" are even mentioning it, they are just getting on with life.

Didn't quite make 29C here today so well below forecast. See what tomorrow brings.

Rather you than me with that one mate ! 

UK expected maximum temperature on Monday 18th July 2022: 38°C to 39.5°C Issued 19:00 BST, Sunday 17th July 2022 https://t.co/kPQW8NPNYh pic.twitter.com/hX5LHfg0kP

— TheWeatherOutlook (@TWOweather) July 17, 2022

I think I’ve narrowed it down. That boomer generation are bizarrely ‘proud’ of the summer of 76, almost as if they own it. 
They don’t seem to like this overshadowing it - plus they don’t want to have to face reality on climate change. 

Hottest day of the year and a date record. 

Beating 32.7c set in 2006.

It is weirdly satisfying, 

No surprises the next two date records will be smashed. 33.3c and 36.5c both also set in the 2006 heatwave 

Info from TORRO  great site

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.torro.org.uk/extremes&ved=2ahUKEwiZ6tDlxoD5AhV-REEAHS7eAeIQFnoECA0QAQ&usg=AOvVaw1LeGM6dlrfB1yxKlsJOrQS

It’s quite interesting looking at sea temps around the coast. Also the further west you go along the Channel on the English side the warmer the water gets though  the land temps are considerably lower than further east.

For example according to this site:

https://seatemperatures.net/europe/united-kingdom/

And taking Lulworth Cove which isn't far from me though I wouldn’t dream of heading in that direction at holiday time, the sea temp is 15.24° C. I guess that's not far off as Ringstead Bay (a mile or so west) where I often go was about 15C the other day.

Head west to say St Ives in Cornwall and it’s 17.85° C though coastal land temps there have been a refreshing upper teens/ low twenties recently.

Let’s head to Aberdeen and we find according to this site, that the water temperature in Aberdeen today is higher than the average temperature of 12.87° C (55.16° F) and the temperature on this day last year, 17th July 2021, was 13.79° C (56.82° F). Which of course is good news for two of TWO’s legendary posters though whether they would find the swimming conditions comfortable is another matter.

And you could go on and on ad infinitum contrasting and comparing places.

Near to me the sea temps are actually a little lower than this time last year and places like Weymouth today with a stiff wind from the east and some illegal haze/high cloud struggled to get into the low twenties C. Coupled with blowing sand on the sea front in these conditions it makes it a picnickers/decorators nightmare.

Inland another matter with a high today IMBY a balmy 29.8C and with the winds decreasing to a F2 or less it’s starting to feel a lot like a tropical island in my garden.

Brian asked if any of us will be sleeping in our gardens? Perhaps not tonight for me but tomorrow is another matter.

An example of what I call 'Brexit-level competence'.

You are on your own there i think or the sun has got to you.