38.4C at my FARS-equipped station... utterly insane to see those sorts of temperatures.

It's a crying shame there aren't any easily accessible official stations north of the Downs.

It's also a shame the red warning wasn't extended to Kent, considering we've been in the firing line on the models for days!

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Egg-frying update:

Bin lid unsuccessful as egg slides off.

Frying pan temp currently 57C so not ready for frying yet.

Pavement only around 56C. Car bonnet around 65C.

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Cloud gone. Now at 34.9°C, which is incredible for Durham.

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Uppers should start to heat up in the Yorkshire area over the next hour. So I expect we will see temps catching up in this part of the world soon.

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Yes you could be right as now is steady 38C and as Nuneaton is in the middle of Midlands would see the rise again.

The cool down not making much progress east looking at the METARS. The opposite if anything

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38.3c at 12.40 pm the highest I have ever recorded beating the 38.2c in 2019.

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🤣🤣🤣🤣

35c here now, that high cloud has moved through to the north so clearer skies overhead. Gut feeling is that 40c likely to be out of reach, but areas south of York may well get there.

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If the car roof is also 65c you could try that?

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The Met Office has tweeted the following top temperatures up to 1200 BST (1100Z):

Charlwood 39.1C
Kew Gardens 38.8C
Heathrow 38.8C
St James's Park 38.1C
Teddington Bushy Park 37.8C
Chertsey 37.7C

So three stations have already beaten 2019 before midday!

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Heathrow 39.7C

Just hit the 100f here. Never thought I would see that.

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Looks like 40°C is a certainty now then. Somewhere might even do it before solar noon! A historic day.

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If my understanding is correct it’s the encroaching boundary that is actually boosting the SE flow ahead of it so it’s a double edged sword for those further North. You really need the boundary to grind eastwards as modelled to achieve the really high numbers.

That said a 41C somewhere seems a given as it stands.

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Edinburgh did at the airport and gogarbank, doubt they're both broke

 

 

Holding steady at 35.6C here. The strong southerly hot wind is really odd.

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35.4c , our record has gone, the temp is rising quickly, even LBA at 34c at 12.20z.

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38.6 rising quickly
Cm2 Chelmsford about half mile from Writtle
https://cm2weather.co.uk/gauges 

Going to be a lot of people moaning if Heathrow reach 40C first.

Down the road from me so would love to see it or Northolt or Kew

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Starting to creep up now to 33.5 C (40% H = 18 C DP).

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Slowly and steadily creeping up again. 37.3C 12.40 pm. Clear skies, moderate southerly breeze. 2 degrees up on same time yesterday - not ruling out 40C yet.

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Shirley Hills in Croydon is on fire. With the breeze this afternoon Expect fires will become widespread.

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Holy £$%^, 39.3c now.

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