I've been inland at Maidstone...gosh its hot at 27/28c ! 

Back at coastal Folkestone with a pleasant 22.9c and a warm 5mph sea breeze to go with it. 

Warm here, but more cloud than sunshine (again).

Don't get me wrong - this is perfect compared to recent years - but it's not fit to lace any other 'heatwave' in my life's boots.

A lot of cloud, quite breezy from time to time and those 'azure skies' mentioned above have happened on just one day so far.

This is 'just a bit better than the type of spell which used to be fairly normal', no more.

You have some different weather than the rest of leeds and it's surrounds - mostly sunny here with a few clouds and that's the way it's been for ages....definitely not a 'used to be fairly normal' spell of weather

The heat continues here , the kids love it . Come home from school and straight into the pool

Well I ain't lying when I say that the upper sky is opaque and there is a lot of quite large Cu floating around (probably 70% cloud cover). Indeed if you zoom in on the MetO visible radar you can see it all as clearly as the disgracefully low resolution image allows.

Yesterday we went out for some al fresco dining and spent the evening chasing menus and napkins around as the wind whipped them up. It was pretty cloudy then and certainly not balmy.

Saturday was quite cloudy as well, and when we went out to a BBQ on Friday evening in Pudsey the sky was quite threatening. It was pleasantly warm at about 19C, but nothing 'special'.

Wednesday was cloudy all day.

We had one 'clear blue sky'day, and that was a week ago on Friday.

EDIT:

This was yesterday afternoon - cloud quite clearly visible http://www.woksat.info/etcvg14m/vg14-msg-1500-uk.html

This was Saturday http://www.woksat.info/etcvg13m/vg13-msg-1500-uk.html

Friday: http://www.woksat.info/etcvg12m/vg12-msg-1800-uk.html

Thursday: Was clear

Wednesday: http://www.woksat.info/etcvg10m/vg10-msg-1800-uk.html

Tuesday: http://www.woksat.info/etcvg09m/vg09-msg-1800-uk.html

Monday: http://www.woksat.info/etcvg08m/vg08-msg-1800-uk.html

Sunday: http://www.woksat.info/etcvg07m/vg07-msg-1800-uk.html

Saturday: http://www.woksat.info/etcvg06m/vg06-msg-1800-uk.html (that's us under the thin but deep convenbction)

Friday:  http://www.woksat.info/etcvg05m/vg05-msg-1500-uk.html Hoorraaahhh!!!

You will see, if you care to look, that on many occasions areas around us were clear. We've just been unlucky with both high cloud and convection.

Another hot one here too.  Both sensors are reading 29.6c, though neither are screened.

To be honest, this entire spell of weather is very disappointing and not was good as I was expecting, with only one day being completely clear, and every other day having some cloud. The past few days have all had less than 10 hours of sun, and even today has lots of cumulus, even though it was supposed to be clear all day, and I suspect the same thing will happen all week. As you say, during this entire spell, only one day has been completely clear. I saw far more clear days in February than I have during summer. I also suspect temperatures will be positively unremarkable.

Sorry for the moan - it's been pleasant enough, but I feel for us, it's a case of 'close, but no cigar'.

Similar here,..... back home it would be unbareable for me, into the high 20's and 30c

Fortunately I am currently living on the East Sussex coast ....  like Steve says much cooler and comfortable here with lovely sea breezes

Got back from Spain yesterday and I'm finding it a bit too hot here

29.7 at Heathrow looks to be the highest so far today.

29.2c. Unscreened ......Most of sensor in shade as sun moves towards West

I guess my glass must be half full - loving this spell of weather and the odd bit of cloud just cools it nicely 

Just back from the beach - in Surrey! Frensham Pond has heated up nicely, water temperature 25C and the sand almost too hot to walk on. 

Who needs sea? 

The sand there is quite "mucky", though - seems to stick to anything. And going in the water feels quite squidgy and unpleasant under foot. The action of the sea in cleaning the sand, and the feel of sand as you go into the sea is much nicer. Of course the sea is much colder!

I've been swimming in Frensham Pond in April, when I wouldn't entertain going in the sea - like you say the water warms up much more quickly. Hopefully with all this warm weather continuing, the English Channel might warm up quite nicely.

Unfortunately we've been too busy to go to the beach this year, with lots of prior commitments.

Great place. Lots of heathland as well. A completely different environment than the alps although very close

I just want one clear day - just one - where the sun is not obscured by the cloud at any point. Just one will do. Pleeaasssee.

I agree the sand is rather dusty but the pond seems much cleaner than in recent years - I remember the swimming area being a bit muddy underfoot but this year it seems to be very clean sand and quite pleasant to walk  on. A lot better than Hawley Lake where I went swimming on Saturday - that has a thick layer of mud as well as lots of submerged logs to scrape your legs on 

Still rather busy even on a Monday - haven't these people got jobs?  Also lots of school age kids, thought therm, didn't finish till the end of the week!

They're probably from Private Schools. They finished a couple of weeks ago.

The Leeds Milky CloudTM has invaded here during the afternoon, keeping a lid on temps to 25c.

A sensible 21.8 C here on the coastline, but it has been quite sunny all day. The obligatory afternoon sea breeze is helping to keep it fresh and airy indoors while still decent enough to sit in the garden - my kind of summer.

Frensham pond... the big one or the small one? The big one I remember for being bordered by 'Bacon Lane' which forms part of an excellent cycle route

Seems searingly hot here today for the third day running - not noticing the slightly lower temperature at all; 28.7°C is the maximum so far. There's not much of a breeze and that which there is doesn't do a lot to keep people cool. High summer rolls on... well, high summer +4 to 6°C 

Rather poor forecast from the Met Office today, was forecast to be cloudy at first then sunny later but we've had the complete opposite , very dull out there at the moment but a really nice refereshing breeze blowing in, cool the house down a bit.

All the Year 11's and 13's who took GCSE's and A levels finished back in June. Town swarming with them here