It's pretty grim here due to the classic "no wind and flat roof" syndrome - it was above 27C most of the night last night for example, and my sheet was damp in the morning where I'd been sweating so much overnight.

There may not be much comment about it on here (perhaps due to not wanting to be perceived to be moaning about the heatwave) but out and about there's plenty of comment from people along the lines of "lovely heat but bad for sleeping at night".

I have given up trying to sleep, its just too hot. This is everything I hate about summer, and there is no real escape from it. At least during the cold winter weather you can use extra bedding if needed, but short of taking off my skin, I can't remove anything else. Roll on the breakdown I say, and for those who wished for this type of weather, I hope you are suffering too.

EDIT. To add to the problem, something upwind of here is burning, and the air quality is horrible.

Surprisingly fresh here this morning after a minimum of 12.9°C at 7am, now 14.2°C at 8am.

It's rising rapidly though thanks to the high cloud to the east having cleared away. Last night was spent between the high cloud just to the east (visible, it was so close) and some low cloud and mist/fog just to the west. I guess that explains why temps fell 3°C lower than is generally the case in and around the Solent region this morning.

The fact that the high cloud still blocked the sun until about an hour ago explains the 7am minimum, a rare occurance at this time of year (usually 5 or 6am for the minimum).

Nice to know where it located as I pass over many times on the N Perimeter Road and on the left side you cannot see the airport due to metal sheet sit on the middle of the wired fence.

Is it wrong to say I am bored now and would like something to break the weather up a bit, maybe a nice thunderstorm? Carol Kirkwood hinted at some later in the week...

 I fully sympathise with those who find it hard to sleep at night - not pleasant.

Yes but we generally need the central heating throughout the winter, every winter. Can't say any of us would be using airconditioning anywhere near as much. When the temperature is 19c/20c/21c - as it regularly is in summer in this country - not many people would need the AC turned on.

Buy a fan?

I think Darren ahs been there and done that , with little success

TBH, recent nights have been more than fine here, with temps dipping to 13-15c. Then again, there was a notable dip in daytime max on Sunday (22.9c from the Saturday high of 26.8c) and yesterday topped out at 23.2c.

There's going to be an upwards drift through this week and into the weekend (and we're away Fri/Sat/Sun - hoorah!) so I reckon nights might become a little more uncomfortable.

But this spell is absolutely ideal for me - hot without being manically hot.

Buy a bigger fan?

 Same here - clear, calm, 24.2°C at 10am.

Fans don't always work and they just blow the warm air round the room so pointless.

Awful night for sleeping last night as it was very humid the first real humid night for sometime here.

Hot here ..Some cloud..Slept most of the night 22:30 Bedroom temp read 24.8c.Only going down to 24.4c at o5:30...Checked on Barometer..Wall Thermostat and thermometer in bedroom... Must be getting  used to it now....

Masterpiece , A classic Matty one liner

Hazy here at Folkestone where the sky has that milky pale look about it due to extensive cirrostratus moving in from France - the sun is shining quite weakly through it making it appear watery. Not one of the better sunbathing days today.

It is feeling quite comfortable temperature-wise at 23 C with 55% humidity, which I have to admit suit me fine anyway as I can leave windows open to air the house out (which is being a pointless excercise as there is that scent of stale hamburgers coming in from somewhere, smells like I'm living next door to a MacDonalds).

As already hinted by me yesterday, I could use a thunderstorm or three to liven things up a bit, not to mention bringing a bit of life back to my poor parched-looking lawn (third season in a row it's gone like this, I might as well pave the bloody thing over).

A very nice 25C at the mo,  beautiful blue skies and 28% humidity... 

All this talk of hot nights. I still have my thick duvet on the bed. Temp in the bedroom is typically about 25-26C at midnight which is fine with the duvet turned down to waist level. Window open, obviously, and it's usually cooled down to 21-22C by morning, which surely nobody can possibly find too warm?

I find anything above 20c to be uncomfortable for sleeping, but that's just me.  

I'm keeping the blinds shut on all upstairs windows with the windows left open, which seems to cool things down nicely at night and stop the upstairs heating up too much during the day. An industrial sized pedestal fan in the bedroom helps as well.

If things get really bad then sleeping under a sheet that's been soaked in cold water is my last resort.

Fans don't make it cooler, of course, although they can give that illusion if it's not too humid. Sadly where I am humidity is usually an issue - if it wasn't, I wouldn't be bathed in sweat!

I do have an air-con unit but I can only use it overnight when my dad's not home - otherwise it keeps him awake. (As anyone who has one will know, air-con units have whacking great compressors which make a right old racket). I can't afford a proper knock-a-hole-in-the-wall split unit, so I'm making do with one of the portable ones (with a large hose).

So, my strategy at present is to use the air-con for a couple of hours before I go to bed. That gets the air temperature down to 22C or so, which is cool enough to fall asleep with no issues. Within 30 minutes the heat from the other bedrooms, plus that wafting up from downstairs, gets the temperature above 25C. I'm usually asleep by then, so I don't notice it until I wake up the next morning all sweaty and sticky.

If I ever came across a few grand, I would undoubtedly invest in a proper air-con unit, the sort you get in small offices and hotel rooms.