16.4°C up here! LOL

Not that it's made me put long trousers or a jumper on! I'm still in "heat mode". Especially after this today:

Looks good Nick. Could be a tad cloudy there tomorrow though

Yep. That's why we went today.  Have to admit, I discovered that South Shields is an awesome place! There's loads to do there by the sea as well as go to the beach.

For us, though, the heat is over - the next few days will be cloudy and warm, with sun in the afternoon maybe. To be honest, I'm happy with that - I desperately need to get some work done and there's no way I would do it if this heat continues.

The whole place was clearly buzzing from the trade over the last few weeks. Like you say, a very welcome boost - shame it's ending just as the kids are off school. I'm guessing that the industry would have been even more quids in had it continued for at least 10 days into the holidays.

I suppose, with the school holidays starting, we're likely to see more reports of grass fires.

Yep... give it 2 weeks and those emigration plans will be back out of the drawer again. 

Castlederg's 30.1C today is only 0.7C off the all time NI record set in 1976, fact fans.

Meanwhile here it was still warm enough to have dinner outside at 10pm although I did have to put a jacket on. The last week has been the first week I haven't had to wear a jacket at all since probably 2006.

Nice to hear Ireland get some well deserved 30C heat as it so rare to see it happening there.

Soft southern-dweller! LOL

We regularly have BBQs outside where it's fallen to about 15°C by the time pudding is served. Not a jacket in sight. If the kids moan, I tell them if they're cold, then they're not eating fast enough. 

How the water there as it already 18C from the latest sea temps and that 3C warmer than Folkstone's sea temps that still stuck at 15C.

My jacket was washed and put away last April...until October.

It was very nice! We've been in when it's been 9°C before (well, the kids have), so compared to that it was glorious!... though my wife who's from the Caribbean found it less convincing. She's used to there being no real difference between air tempa nd water temp. 

I never enter in the at 9C before as I am used to 25C or over in Cyprus but otherwise it good to see 18C reached over NE England.

JMA's 0z run shows 18C uppers on Monday: http://modeles.meteociel.fr/modeles/gem/runs/2013072000/gem-1-66.png?00

Navgem should be congratulated for spotting 18C uppers nearly 2 weeks ago for next week.

31.4c yesterdays hotspot at Porthmadog.

Heat-de-waved today...Warm enough and a breeze to go with it... Sleep well tonight....

Increasingly cloudy here with a fresh breeze. Certainly no heatwave today. May get 21'C

Getting brighter here as the forecast was very wrong on the timing of the clouds that was due to come last night but came late this morning after almost clear start earlier on.

Ditto. I would have preferred a totally cloudy start - at least then I would not be lulled into a false sense of security.