It wouldbe great if one of the mods could 'sticky' it for future reference.A truly historic day!

My biggest worry with such a long dry spell and now the current heat!  Fire crews are now at a woodland fire just to my South/East, not far from the Sherwood Forest visitor centre. Can smell it quite strongly now.  We’re pretty much surrounded by woodland and once it gets into dry undergrowth, it spreads very quickly.  

Keep it a bit yet,  tmrw could easily be another 30c day in the East. And another plume likely at the weekend could see a couple more 30c days. Also tmrw could see Cambridge BG take the title again.

Leconfield already 27c lol. I think it's on the happy pills again though.  Some 25s elsewhere so we should hit 30c again. 

36.4C from what I can see, set in 1975.

Looks very likely to go, with several stations having hit 35C on the last update and rising fast.

I've just seen a BBC weather forecast and they've hinted in some form or another temperatures will be above average for pretty well the rest of the month.

I'll sticky this thread if no one objects and at the end of the month move it to the classics section.

Nice one, yep 90f on Sunday in the SE and EA is a good bet atm

My time-lapse for the two hottest days of the heat spike here:

https://youtu.be/VYBQkUGiewc

Looks like maybe a near miss. 35.7C the max so far at Abed

https://www.dmi.dk/da/seneste-24-timer/

Pretty incredible temperatures for a small maritime country like that. 

And incidentally wouldn't it be great if the UK Met Office had a site like that with live temperature readings from every weather station, and graphs updating every 10 minutes!

Germany is not far off its record either - I hadn't realised the 42.6C from 2019 had been invalidated so the record is only 41.2C. Lots of 39s there but I don't think anywhere has quite made it over 40.

Some things from this heatwave that I noted, apart from living in the hottest area!  We had a glass of cider over ice, sat in the shade yesterday afternoon.  When I was half way down it, the glass above the liquid was really warm!   Last night was awful for sleeping despite the house being much cooler than outside.  The cotton sheets were warm to start with but I finally slept with a damp towel over me, then woke in the early hours to dampen it again.   

It’s been a lot cooler outside today at 26c and mostly cloudy but the house is still too warm even with all doors and windows open.  The inside walls are warm to the touch, as is everything in the cupboards.  I took two wine glasses out to set the dinner table at six o clock tonight and they felt like they’d just come out of the dishwasher.  It wouldn’t have normally mattered as we were having red wine, but even that had to be cooled as the bottle was warm.  Everything is just hanging onto the heat!  

We’ve had our granddaughter here today and when I put her in her bedroom for her midday nap, it felt cool enough, so I closed the window, left the fan on and closed the door.  I watched and worried as the temperature on her monitor rose from 24c and stopped at 31 c.  If it had carried on rising I’d have brought her out and had a grumpy one year old all afternoon. Just shows how much heat is retained in the walls.

It isn’t just the walls that are retaining heat.  Our kitchen and utility room floors are slate, which is usually quite cold but walking on it this morning feels like the underfloor heating’s on.

Good post Caz. The fire risk is scary.

On a plus note it's nice to see that our Australian friends have been providing information to our farmers on how to harvest in 38C temperatures.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-07-21/aussie-farmers-support-uk-farmers-hot-harvest/101257374?utm_medium=social&utm_content=sf258916160&utm_campaign=abc_perth&utm_source=m.facebook.com&sf258916160=1&fbclid=IwAR0K2bEgeXi_QrFDEqnDlwJg6T7Ocw_0JDnC_HAtryHd4TLW-Y_Wu2OF--8

28C again this afternoon in a couple of places. Not heatwave, but it’s always seemed like the official British threshold between “warm” and “hot”.

Hopefully some 30s tomorrow to keep the tab up. So far we’ve had 8 days at 30C or above somewhere in the UK this July, and another 3 where somewhere hit 29C.

Assuming 30+ tomorrow the models suggest anything between 2 more 30C days and none before month end.

High yesterday was 28.5c in Cavendish 

Today Cambridge and Santon Downham already over 30c so some decent heat still in the East.

Today is the ninth 30c day this Summer 8 of them in July.  9 was last years total I believe.