29c in my garden today, not quite beating yesterday's 29.2c ...

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Solent yet again the hot spot 29.2C

4 days of over 30C heat for Pompey, however it cooled down this afternoon as cloud with a little spoilt the party!!

27.1c At 13:09 is the best I can do for today.....

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Quite a few places which suprisingly included aviemore got to 29C today, nowhere apparantely managed 30C though. 

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29.3c At  12:34.

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28.6C here at the mo, out in the sun it's absolutely scorching hot, i've just had a very short haircut and wish I hadn't, got to wear a hat now

Really?

Cooler here today in line with the forecasts. Currently 25.1c but actually feels more humid.

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Currently it's 28.2C but it's been warmer.

Had an overnight low of 19C.. I tell you when it next drops to 14C that will be a real system shocker!!! 😃

Things are starting to plateau now, if we do get 30C itl be scrapped. 

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I've had a 29.7C today, but it then dipped due to clouds. Back on the up now, 28.7C :-)

We have at least another 2 hours of potential warming down here 😉 I think (officially) 30.5C has a fair chance unless something drastic happens to the weather between now and 5.30pm.

28.3C here so far. Third warmest day of the year

 

Temp has taken a dive on the Wirral from 27c t0 23c in a monsoon downpour. That earthy after rain smell filling the air now 

Solent MRSC has reached 29.0C

Here is a comparison of July 2013 and 2014 showing the highest temperature by day in the UK in a sequence of days where at least 25C was reached somewhere in the UK. Although 2013 was overall a longer and warmer spell of weather this year is not too far behind.

 

Time is running out for a 30C, best bet is solent within the next hour. 

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Looks like the cooler air is beginning to move into the far north - Altnaharra now at 19C, it was 24C just an hour ago so a 5C drop.

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29.6°C here. Hottest day of the year by some margin, and hotter than any day of the last 7 years, with the exception of a couple of 30°C plus days last year.

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Quite remarkable.

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26.6C as a high here today and the hottest of the spell - certainly not a remarkable heatwave here in Oldham, last July I recorded a hotter temp @ 28.4C.

To put last July into context I recorded a temp at or above 20C for 17 consecutive days. So far this July it's been 11. Still overall it's been a great Summer so far.

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Been at a wedding today in Kent and it is hot hot hot!

21c at 11pm here and 24C at 11pm in London!

One of those rare evenings when you feel like you are abroad 🙂

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This summer has been a very useful way of putting 2013 in context. It's clear July 2013 was miles better, warmer, drier than 2014, and it was in danger if being rather prematurely forgotten, like July 1994.

Yet despite all that this year we seem to be feeling it more. I think the secret is that for a summer to be remembered well, it has to have at least two very good months. We've had June and July, but also a very usable mid and late spring. Despite a lack if anything exceptional it's felt like a good summer.

2013 suffers in the same way as 1999 (July), 1997 (Aug), 1996 (June), 2010 (June), and 2009 (August) in being a single very good month surrounded by crap. The opposite in every way would be 1989, pretty good from May to September and still at the top of my summer index leaderboard for the extended summer season. This year could have a chance of emulating a bit of 1989.

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I have to disagree as June last year was just as good if not better then June of this year... as for the July's, longevity goes to last year, heat goes to this year.

Still 22C at 12:30am!!

Had plenty of nights over the past 10 days or so where temperatures are similar to this at this time, even warmer on some nights! This is something the heatwave of July 2013 lacked, in fact I think we need to go back 2006 or earlier to find a heatwave with so many hot nights...

From the night of the 12 until last night, we have had 13 days with nights no lower then 17C, several of those have hovered around the 20C mark. Quite extraordinary even for us, and we're used to warm summer nights down here.

Very nearly managed 30C again yesterday. Here are the hot spots:

Cavendish 29.9C
Bournemouth Hurn 29.5C
St James Park 29.4C

 

A reading of 24c. at 10:09.  

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Last night was very balmy and still 25c at 10pm and 22c at midnight, then we had a shower at 1am.  It's been a few degrees cooler today and much more comfortable for working in the garden this afternoon.

I'll remember last summer as a good one with a few 30c+ days, though it had cooled down by the end of July and August was much cooler and wetter.  Spring 2013 was very late and followed a lot of snow even into April

This year we had a very warm Spring and Summer arrived early.  We haven't had much in the way of 30c + days but we've had more days in the high 20's this summer and I'd put it a touch better than last year.  We'll see what August brings.

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