For what reason? He can't just make that statement without saying why?

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Before midday too. Unbelievable!

I had the same idea! I read that you need 70. I tried pouring a spoonful of egg white on top of the plastic bin lid. It just ran off without cooking. maybe if I put a black frying pan out in the sun....

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What's Wisley thats nearby?

 

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Temps pegged back here from a high of 35.5c down to 35.1c. The wind is changeable but generally moved round to a SSW from SSE direction, and gusting to 20mph.

Slightly crazy if we get to 35.5c at 11:30 and still miss our record here of 35.8 set in 2019...

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You can do what you like on twitter... except question the narrative....

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I’m no longer in mid Sussex but at Hurstpierpoint in West Sussex. I had a minimum of 25.2C last night and was pretty much matching Charlwood’s rise this morning which is about 15 miles north of here. I got to 37.2 around the time Charlwood was 37.3 but I have since dropped back to 36.7C with a breeze picking up from the south so we may now be getting moderation from the sea, although the wind is variable and gusty. This incredible hot air may slowly be on its way north I think to coincide with the greatest heating of the day ?

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Obviously. Are you being deliberately pedantic?

All people are saying is that it’s questionable given the rate of rise. Don’t worry though, even if this isn’t somewhere will hit 40c

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Almost certainly, but IMHO it’s far from ‘academic’ to find the record maximum temperature record broken before midday - which is, in terms of the sun’s position in the sky, before 11am.

My thermometer just touched 39c briefly - its on a north-east facing wooden surface.

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He has  

He might be wrong. Hopefully as this is incredible before midday 

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We of course I am, isn't everyone on here.

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We have a new all time record now at 39.1C . Further ones will be coming in as there's another 3 and a half hours of further heating possible. 

 

 

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Lots of 37s and Cambridge and Northolt at 38c at Noon

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Yeah, fair point 

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Gatwick is now 37c at 11.50am, we don't know the exact decimal figure or the max though.

Risen quickly like Charlwood but a couple of degrees lower. 

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35.6C at Blackbushe at midday. Really does feel properly furnace like now.

I made the mistake of leaving the candles from our dinner last night on the patio table. Liquefied!

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Heathrow 38.1c noon

 

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Holding around 35c for the past 45 mins

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I wonder how many times the record could be potentially broken today. I did feel we wouldn't make 40 but seems a certainty now.

Lots of rounded 38C appearing now in so many different locations.

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37 here.

Edit: Although one app says 33 and another 34!

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The hilarious thing is, Charlwood isn’t even in the Red warning area.

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34C hit here at 12pm.

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Anywhere but Heathrow please. That station has always niggled me

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36C here now.

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

Historic. Shame it isn’t an official station but I’d imagine Ringway/Rostherne won’t be far behind. 

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Heathrow has never held the UK record though, has it?

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