Morning!

There seems a chance that the day record for 31 October could be broken today and a new record set.

It would be interesting if reports from official stations, maps, and statistics could be posted in here.

21c is being widely forecast for the London area and up to 20C widely in inland parts of the south and east.

WI

Its already up to 16.5c here. A fascinating day ahead for the whole of the UK and I can't wait to see what the new records will be by this evening.

Up here we have : 17c at Morar Sands, Kyle Of Lochalsh, Fort William, Sallachy, Oban & Ballachulish.

The thing that will really cause the temps to soar are foehn winds, its certainly moist enough. We need to look at the lee side of mountains, inverness and aviemore are perhaps spots which could be favoured if the soutertherly wind field extended that far north. Otherwise north wales, parts of cumbria or the N coast of cornwall. 

The UK only has 19.4c to beat set in Margate in 1968 so it is a dead cert if you ask me

Areas around Nairn and the Moray Coast will do well today, Lagganlia (an old met site) where i have a Davis VP set up is on the lee side of the Cairngorms and can do very well. Aviemore is more exposed tbh 

Here is a link to the data

http://weather-live.co.uk/lagganlia/

This spot near Kyle Of Lochalsh (another VP) is on the lee side of hills too 

http://weather-live.co.uk/Ceann-an-oba/

However the new record will be set further south i guess, not here in The Highlands

Currently 15.9c here with a projected temp of 19c.

At 9am

Bala & Rhyl 18c

Bethesda 19c

These are ones to watch being on the lee side

Thanks.

I think you are right, you can see particularly well on the 850hpa theta map where the warmest, moistest air is. Obviously you can see a cold front (and a rather strong one on here) however just ahead of it the air is very moist; the reigion perhaps 50km ahead of the cold front is the warmest so we should perhaps expect the warmest location to coincide with this during the warmest part of the day on the lee of a mountain. 

19.4c 1968 Margate

Cheers, that image explains why it is 17c in the Western Highlands.

Inverlochy Castle, Fort William 18c however Spean Bridge 6.7 miles east is 13.7c

A few stations on the METO observations (wow) page are starting to show 21c around Canvey Island and Dartford, and stations on the eastern side of the Bristol Channel now showing 20c.

http://wow.metoffice.gov.uk/

The problem is with wow anyone can add a station to that, even a £35 maplin special with no temperature screen. Check on a sunny summers day all the 35c+ that show up.. I would take it with a pinch of salt unless you know they are Davis VP sites or proper met ones.

That is a problem as you say so the thing I look for is when multiple stations near each other are all reporting the same temperature. If I see a cluster then I always think its more likely to be right.

Does anyone know where the page of official sites went to? When I go to the meto site now i can never find them.

2 trusted Davis VP sites in NW Wales are now at 19.3c, Bethesda & Menai

NW Wales could indeed be one to watch today.

Bristol Airport  17.8c.

Yeovilton         17.2c.

Cardiff Wales   16.1c.

Official sites.

clevedon weather live updates. 

Trawscoed 19.1c top of the official sites at 10.00

unofficial but Davis VP sites:

Menai Bridge 19.6C

Bethesda 19.4C

18.8c here now this is from a hotel using a Davis Vue a few streets from me. The link is the Torquay one in my sig. Just took a walk to the end of the road and its sunny here but still a little hazy looking west, temperatures climbing nicely though.

Just hit 18.1c here at 620' asl.