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Gaz
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03 July 2013 23:48:41

About time we opened a Heatwave thread as it looks nailed now.

Are you excited?
What do you like about Heatwaves?
What are your memories of the last Heatwave?
How do you keep Cool?.. Anything Heatwave stick in here!


We don't get these much so lets shout about it ...


 


 


Gary, Torquay, Devon. 85 Meters / 279 Feet ASL


Thunderstorms in 2013: 28th September 3.30am - 8.00am Storm that lasted over 4 Hours
Thunderstorms in 2013: 17th June 6.30pm. bright Lightning out at sea - Deep Bass Thunder
Thunderstorms in 2012: 11th August 10:30pm. bright Lightning - Deep Bass Thunder
Thunderstorms in 2012: 28th June 2:00am From Spainish Plume. 5 sec lightning flashes
Thunderstorms (Flickering Lightning) in 2012: 26th May 2:30 From Spainish Plume





LeedsLad123
04 July 2013 04:35:35

No heatwave on the 00z this morning.


Whitkirk, Leeds - 85m ASL.
Gusty
04 July 2013 05:44:37

I can't wait. Its been so long that many have forgotten just how hot it can get in the UK. 


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Justin W
04 July 2013 05:49:20

The last six summers have been wonderful. the next seven days look pretty grim. Still don't think it will top 32C though.


Yo yo yo. 148-3 to the 3 to the 6 to the 9, representing the ABQ, what up, biatch?
schmee
04 July 2013 05:50:53
Ta for starting this thread. BBC give 24c today for starters and upto 26c tomorrow Fri in the south.:0).
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Crepuscular Ray
04 July 2013 07:10:22
I love heatwaves and have experienced many over my 55 years. I was 18 in 1976, a stunner! I'm in Edinburgh now, a city that rarely experiences them. It will be interesting to see how warm it gets in the next week or so. Depends on the drift, any hint of an easterly and we've "haar-d" it! We need a hot southerly from England
Jerry
Edinburgh, in the frost hollow below Blackford Hill
Matty H
04 July 2013 07:12:07
Naturally I'm going to relish every second of it [sn_appr]

Would love to scrape a 30c IMBY, but looking more like high 20s
ARTzeman
04 July 2013 07:30:10

Shorts on..Ice in the freezer..barbe ready...New table,chairs and parasol coming tomorrow.Remote control fan at the ready. Vents all open and just waiting for the big it to happen..






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Others just get wet.
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nsrobins
04 July 2013 07:33:54


No heatwave on the 00z this morning.


Originally Posted by: LeedsLad123 


I assume that you are gauging this on the definition of a heatwave, or possibly just joking.


Either of the above may be the only reason for this statement, because the outlook continues to be as certain as you can get in this business - very warm or hot, settled, often sunny conditions for many parts of the UK from Friday for at least a week across the NWP.


Neil
Fareham, Hampshire 28m ASL (near estuary)
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wallaw
04 July 2013 07:41:25

This is precisely the reason I love the British weather and why I first got interested in it. Until possibly yesterday morning this was still only 95% sure and even then the temperatures and length of this warm spell was still uncertain. Heck, even today, if you didn't know the forecast you would have no idea of what was coming as it's currently cool (ish), cloudy and looks like rain. Brilliant



Ian


Stockton-on-Tees

Gusty
04 July 2013 07:44:52

With this being an early July heatwave the sun's heat is going to be mighty powerful compared with August heatwaves when the sun is losing a lot of punch from mid month. Houses will become like ovens as the internal walls and fabric warms, especially inland with a lack of breeze .


Locally I'm hoping that the light easterly drift will provide a bit of a flow through the house on those hot sultry nights.


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idj20
04 July 2013 07:45:07

<---- Battening up the hatches here.

But, no, I do like a nice drop of sunshine and a bit of warmth as the next person but it does tend to make it rather loud and rowdy around here what with me being surrounded by pubs and living very close to the beach as everyone from the rest of the county descend down to this little part of the world.
  I think in my case, bike rides out into the countryside may be in order (naturally, with camera in tow) and hope my house (and mother) will still be in one piece when I get back.  But I will appreciate the warmer early mornings to take some early outdoors morning photography as it has been quite cold for that lately. Of course, that's assuming we don't get the sea mist stuff, that is.

Mind you, my memory of the last heatwave was not a pleasant one. I was working in a tomato greenhouse in that July 2006 heatwave, by the afternoon I was pleading to be put out of my misery but thankfully it did get appreciably cooler in the next day.

Although I don't really understand the hype surrounding this upcoming warm spell, it's making it sound like we've not had a decent summer in six years . . .

. . . oh.


Folkestone Harbour. 
LeedsLad123
04 July 2013 07:46:35



No heatwave on the 00z this morning.


Originally Posted by: nsrobins 


I assume that you are gauging this on the definition of a heatwave, or possibly just joking.


Either of the above may be the only reason for this statement, because the outlook continues to be as certain as you can get in this business - very warm or hot, settled, often sunny conditions for many parts of the UK from Friday for at least a week across the NWP.


Originally Posted by: LeedsLad123 


A bit of both - although it's also based on the GFS shunting the high pressure further west a little bit, introducing cooler uppers (below 10C) to most of the UK around the 10th. ECM and UKMO continue to look hot.


Whitkirk, Leeds - 85m ASL.
domma
04 July 2013 07:50:24

I can not wait this will be the first time since returning from Thailand I will have considered sitting outside, although I really do not expect it to get that hot here, but the sunshine alone will be nice.


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Gary

Jiries
04 July 2013 08:02:13

Very much looking forward to it and had waited for 7 years for a proper heatwave and I started recording July data by using my old Max and Min thermometer which read 12C and 24C yesterday.  With the ground already 50% parched despite 1.8mm of rain early yesterday morning would help temperatures to rise higher and parching will increase sharply by next week.

four
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04 July 2013 08:22:42

We may even get above 21C/70F 


Ally Pally Snowman
04 July 2013 09:03:30

Somewhere should get to 25c today. And we could hit 25c every day for the next 2 weeks.


Bishop's Stortford 85m ASL.
Kev71
04 July 2013 09:05:54

What actually constitutes a Heatwave? Does the temp have to exceed a certain figure over a number of days for it to be called a heatwave?


Some of our experts will surely know this??

Edicius81
04 July 2013 09:11:01


What actually constitutes a Heatwave? Does the temp have to exceed a certain figure over a number of days for it to be called a heatwave?


Some of our experts will surely know this??


Originally Posted by: Kev71 


http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/uk/heathealth/


It's over 32c on two days with the middle night being no less than 18c overnight in London. For the rest of the UK it's a little lower. Strangely there doesn't seem to be a threshold level for Scotland. 21C perhaps?

Charmhills
04 July 2013 09:15:24

Mid 20's doesn't constitute a heatwave here in the East Midlands.


Very warm but never overly hot thankfully throughout the upcoming spell of fine weather.


Loughborough, EM.

Knowledge is power, ignorance is weakness.

Duane.
Downpour
04 July 2013 09:47:39


What actually constitutes a Heatwave? Does the temp have to exceed a certain figure over a number of days for it to be called a heatwave?


Some of our experts will surely know this??


Originally Posted by: Kev71 


Heatwave thresholds by region/nation (Scotland and NI dont have official thresholds, presumably because they so rarely have heatwaves! )


 


Threshold temperatures





















































RegionDay max (°C)Night min (°C)
North East England2815
North West England3015
Yorkshire & Humber2915
East Midlands3015
West Midlands3015
East of England3015
South East England3116
London3218
South West England3015
Wales3015


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Gaz
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04 July 2013 09:52:29



What actually constitutes a Heatwave? Does the temp have to exceed a certain figure over a number of days for it to be called a heatwave?


Some of our experts will surely know this??


Originally Posted by: Downpour 


Heatwave thresholds by region/nation (Scotland and NI dont have official thresholds, presumably because they so rarely have heatwaves! )


 


Threshold temperatures





















































RegionDay max (°C)Night min (°C)
North East England2815
North West England3015
Yorkshire & Humber2915
East Midlands3015
West Midlands3015
East of England3015
South East England3116
London3218
South West England3015
Wales3015


Originally Posted by: Kev71 


 


Thanks Downpour  Looks like we will smash the Mins and get very close to daytime


Gary, Torquay, Devon. 85 Meters / 279 Feet ASL


Thunderstorms in 2013: 28th September 3.30am - 8.00am Storm that lasted over 4 Hours
Thunderstorms in 2013: 17th June 6.30pm. bright Lightning out at sea - Deep Bass Thunder
Thunderstorms in 2012: 11th August 10:30pm. bright Lightning - Deep Bass Thunder
Thunderstorms in 2012: 28th June 2:00am From Spainish Plume. 5 sec lightning flashes
Thunderstorms (Flickering Lightning) in 2012: 26th May 2:30 From Spainish Plume





Justin W
04 July 2013 09:55:47



What actually constitutes a Heatwave? Does the temp have to exceed a certain figure over a number of days for it to be called a heatwave?


Some of our experts will surely know this??


Originally Posted by: Downpour 


Heatwave thresholds by region/nation (Scotland and NI dont have official thresholds, presumably because they so rarely have heatwaves! )


 


Threshold temperatures





















































RegionDay max (°C)Night min (°C)
North East England2815
North West England3015
Yorkshire & Humber2915
East Midlands3015
West Midlands3015
East of England3015
South East England3116
London3218
South West England3015
Wales3015


Originally Posted by: Kev71 


 


Thanks for that. So no heatwave expected in Kent, then? 


Yo yo yo. 148-3 to the 3 to the 6 to the 9, representing the ABQ, what up, biatch?
Rob K
04 July 2013 09:55:47
As I posted (rather OT) in the model thread, the 1976 heatwave really was remarkable. FIFTEEN consecutive days with a max of 32C somewhere in the country!

http://www.personal.dundee.ac.uk/~taharley/1976_weather.htm 

I didn't experience that as I wasn't born until, um, exactly nine months after the heatwave began (!) but I do love a good heatwave. Summer 2006 was great, and I have fond memories of 1995 as well - the summer at the end of my first year at university. (Yes I did go to uniat age 17 for those of you who doubt my maths!)

I never find that my house heats up too much even on very hot days so I rarely find it too hot to sleep. On a couple of occasions in 2006 I slept in the hammock in the garden (and got woken up by a thunderstorm!) - would love it to be warm enough to do that again!
Yateley, NE Hampshire, 73m asl
"But who wants to be foretold the weather? It is bad enough when it comes, without our having the misery of knowing about it beforehand." — Jerome K. Jerome

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