Just goes to show, we can study the models all we like but the weather will do its own thing.

Yes, gave us all a smile. 

Oi. I did booming well enjoy '76 because at 26 you can enjoy it! I tasted the current record location from a few hundred metres and didn't enjoy it, though did enjoy knowing I happened by luck to be there to feel exactly what it was like. What is a shame is that the Country is so divided now we even have to take a pop at each other over the agreed favourite subject of the British people 

Not much beyond weather forums though.

Does length float your boat or width?

A few spots of rain here now.

Are we really sure this isn't going to impact the weather tomorrow?

Nobody knows. It wasn’t modelled so all we can do is watch and wait tomorrow. 

My time-lapse for today - a hot 30°C summer's day.

https://youtu.be/DgChbtBEvk8

Or Cambridge 😉 

It's a bit ott I think, but I'd of never of thought I'd see a forecast  like that, even an automated one.

43c!  This might be a record breaking hot spell, but that’s surely preposterous…. That’s hotter than Mecca! (42c)

MetO has “just” 38c, which is a bit more believable.

The Met Office have 39C for Leeds on Tuesday now. It’s gradually gotten higher as we’ve gotten closer, so wouldn’t be surprised if it says 40C sometime tomorrow. 

BBC have 40C.

Incredibly, the Met Office are now forecasting a maximum temperature of 34°C for Hawick in the Scottish Borders on Tuesday which would smash the all-time Scottish record if that was to end up being correct.

The BBC on the other hand are still only going for 32°C at that same location on the same day, and although that is only just short of that record from 2003.

Just went outside and you can feel the blowtorch. like being in Saudi 

Could really do with some aircon. Fans are not going to cut it

Have to laugh at the Daily Express. Headline is not about the weather unlike some other papers , but it says in smaller text ' Not the end of the world, keep calm and carry on.'

So for all the bulls**t hype the paper has produced about fake heatwaves and snow events over the years when something serious is actually happening it plays it down. Maybe they have finally realised that their readers are those morons on Facebook dismissing what is about to happen.

For here tomorrow - iphone app 40c, BBC app 41c, Met O app 40c.  

Met O has us with thundery showers tomorrow evening as well.

Try to enjoy it as it will be first time for you to experience 35C and to have Scotland get a new record deserved one as it always cold all year around.

I reckon though that if it wasn't for human induced climate change, there is a good chance that none of us would be having to endure such conditions over the coming days.

If you have seen any of those short videos on one of the Met Office's YouTube channels about what a typical summer weather forecast might look like in 2050, you will no doubt have noticed that tomorrow's forecast temperatures are already not all that far below what those forecast temperatures for 2050 were showing, so we are probably not going even going to have to wait until then for those sorts of temperatures to happen.

If anything, that makes our future prospects even scarier because if this trend continues, I fear that our actual temperatures during 2050 will be far worse than what those videos were showing.

That is something which needs to taken very seriously and our politicians need to pay full attention to what is happening to our climate just now and make sure that the required actions are taken worldwide to ensure that there is at least a decent prospect of everything being brought back under control on that front.

My wife - who spent her teenage years in Glasgow having been brought up in and still maintaining connections with Essex - always said that the Scots definition of a heat wave was anything in the 70s F. So, good luck, hope you can find somewhere cool.

That just shows how things have changed because even relatively cool days here in Edinburgh can still easily get up to around 21°C these days and that has shown up really well on the various reports which I have given on this forum not just during this summer, but in other recent summers as well. In my younger days, that used to only really happen in somewhere like central London, so you could say that we have actually entered into more or less the same climate here in Edinburgh these days as what central London had back then.

We have the same kind of thing when it comes to the winter as well when temperatures of around 7°C or so here in Edinburgh are now being seen as being quite "cold" on an increasing basis whereas those sorts of temperatures for here during the winter used to only be regarded as being rather mild. That no longer seems to be the case though.

My view of today.

UK expected maximum temperature Monday 18th July 2022: 37.75°C to 39.25°C. Check https://t.co/kPQW8NQlNP for updates through the day pic.twitter.com/v3DvAB1hZo

— TheWeatherOutlook (@TWOweather) July 18, 2022