ah lol i see  fair enough :-)

This is my new one as before i used a food probe lol. Its not as good as yours but it give's a fair idea of the temperature so long as its in a well ventialated area well away from where the sun has recently been shining. Work recordings still done with a food probe lol.

My new one is just a max/min recorder.

currently 23.5C

Made it! We just hit 30.0 °C late this afternoon, beating last Sunday's 28.1 °C by a good margin. A bit of a nerve-jangler: we got to 29.8 °C about 14.00, but it just wouldn't go any higher. The max was actually reached just before 18.00, ahead of what seems to have been a short-lived thundery shower.

Smart work Rob, no flies on you

I should imagine sales of BBQ related products have gone through the roof the last 7 days and will continue to do so

That was so funny  - or maybe it's just the heat. Eating outdoors yet again - this is perfect

29.4ºC here today, equal warmest day (with July 1st 2009) since 2006.

I'm a little disappointed that we couldn't break the 30ºC barrier though.

Tuesday onwards looks the next best guess ( going by the numbers on GFS )

Does anyone know of any site where I can find the maximums (to one decimal place) for the offical weather stations today? Looking for Boscombe Down in particular, seeing as it showed 29.7°C at both 4pm and 6pm... curious as to the actual max tia

http://www.wunderground.com/wundermap/

Some high temps still about

Thanks very much Rob, just the ticket

How much effort would it be for the Met Office to offer a 'UK extremes' feature that shows the maximum for each official station on the map? Maybe I should suggest it in an email

Wouldn't want to live in central London tonight, still 23C in some locations.  http://www.wunderground.com/weatherstation/WXDailyHistory.asp?ID=IGREATER13

Love to see those such warm night temps.

It maxed out at 32.6c

Probably the Vue over-reading again slightly. Maybe being slightly further inland from the river has a small effect on the temperature too?

I spent the majority of the day working at Heathrow and it felt incredibly hot there! Not surprising it was the highest max in the UK because you could definitely feel it!

I can imagine the river was a popular spot today, the Thames riverside at Hampton, Hampton Court, Teddington and Richmond really is beautiful at this time of year! (minus the flower show traffic )

Has anybody noticed the huge temperature range at Exeter for the 13th?

I'm not sure if there's two stations and I'm getting mixed up, but according to the Met Office UK overview for 13th July, Exeter recorded the lowest minimum of 7.7c:

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/uk/uk_latest_weather.html

And I think it maxed at somewhere around 31c? That would make a temperature range of around 23c!

Definitly Heatwave weather...Looking at BBBC weather for Bath...End of 10th day shows 32c temprature...

Horrible night last night, very uncomfortable

Kids walking around like zombies this morning

Temperature already several degrees into the 20's... the odd thing is I keep forgetting that it's not even 10am

Slept surprisingly well last night but only after the seemingly mandatory fight with a non-existent person in my room at around 1am. Whenever I get hot, I have that sort of dream, but only once, after which I tend to sleep fine. Does make the idea of one day sharing a double bed seem risky though

I'm loving the warm mornings eating breakfast outside. If I could sleep early and wake early (yeah... dream on) then I would, as 6-9am is IMO an amazing time of day during a summer heatwave.

Well there goes 25°C at 10:20 in the morning! That's about a degree ahead of yesterday at the same time. Interesting when combined with slightly lower humidity.

For the automated Met Office and BBC location forecasts to verify, the temperature has to only climb 3°C from there I know less warm air is trying to feed down from the north, but it's such a gentle airflow that I can't see it having much effect today. Amazingly even GFS only goes for 29°C.

All very interesting to me, I do like it when the weather is more extreme (in a relative sense) than the model/forecast