November record gone - Trawscoed is 21.8C at 1300

Record is confirmed by the Met Office on their Twitter account.

Gogerddan which is only a few miles from Trawscoed is at 21.3C

14.3C here, it was 15.4C at noon.

It was very warm at times last October though, 18.1C on the 28th and 19.6C on the 31st.

That sustained sunshine has done it. A 69 year old record has gone. All the monthly maximum temperatures are there for the taking, month by month.

22.3 at Trawscoed at 1400

Amazing, record destroyed!

This is actually the first time one of my record threads has resulted in a monthly record being broken!

Well done Q, I knew you could do it matey

I have been doing reasonably well with bright sunshine for most of the day here at Folkestone harbour even though temperature maxed out at 15.4 C.

But then suddenly in the past hour, thick dense fog rolled in from the sea and it's now all murky and clammy at this end. Seems a bit out of place given it is usually associated with warm moist air travelling over cold sea surface - and yet the Strait of Dover is supposed to be still warm at 14 C.

Good to see the record fall - although as it's been foggy all day here with a high of just 13.1C, it feels like a world away!

It's quite funny, really; in what's been a remarkably average year overall, we've had two all-time month high temperature records broken.

Great news. The funny thing is that most of these monthly records are getting beaten with ease. We truly are living in warming times. 

Touched 16.2C here, it's interesting to note this was equalled in early November 2010, which also features the lowest November temperature of -10.7C

How cool (as so to speak) would it be if we go onto breaking cold temperature records come the winter months. Highly improbable, of course . . . but . . . you never know.

What's betting that like July, November as a whole will turn out unremarkable..

Yeah good call Q, I wouldn't be surprised if the first half of November is the warmest on record too and by some distance, given how remarkable the synoptics are.

After a sunny and warm afternoon with a high of 17c, dense fog has moved in.

Temps dropping like a stone down to 11c and falling.

Today was an absolute stunner. I wonder what the rest of the week has in store.

06-18 maxes are in - Trawscoed topped out at 22.4C. Coldest place was Wisley (Surrey) i think, with +9.5C. Not often Wisley is the coldest.

I looked at the list of maxima and assumed the Trawscoed figure was an obvious error. Nowhere else in the UK exceeded 19C today. Colour me very sceptical.

As far as I can see the next warmest was 18.9C at Capel Curig and Bala. Across the Irish Sea Valentia hit 19.5C. 

Was Trawscoed really 3.5C warmer than anywhere else in the country? It seems to be being reported as genuine but it's the kind of reading that would raise major red flags if you were looking back at old records. 

Next highest were

21.5C Gogerddan - probably about 10 miles from Trawscoed

21.0C Whitechurch (Pembrokeshire)

20.9C at Swyddffynnon (near Trawscoed but 100 metres higher)