The 0600-1800 max is showing as 15.6*C there. You can scan through all the station maximums here:

http://www.ogimet.com/cgi-bin/gsynres?lang=en&state=United+K&osum=no&fmt=html&ord=REV&ano=2015&mes=12&day=17&hora=18&ndays=1&Send=send

Temps often behave somewhat counter-intuitively at this time of year. For example, the peak pf 14.5*C here today occurred about 10 minutes after it started raining heavily.

Can someone please confirm the date high max UK record for 19th December? (with reference)

I posted some time ago a TORRO data set that cited 15.5C at Hemsby (Norfolk) in 1993 as a date record. I explained how this was the most likely date record to fall.

http://www.torro.org.uk/hightempsyear.php

I have since read various max figures for the date including 15.6C; in fact if the TORRO base is to be believed, 15.6 is the target for a record, not the existing record.

Thanks - and thanks to Kevin; I see the dates extend to 2010. The TORRO info I have doesn't go that far. Does Kevin's data update to include the more recent events (Oct 11; Oct 14; July 15 etc?)

PS sorry to talk about your records in 3rd person Kevin if you're reading this- it seemed appropriate to reply to Essan's post that way!

Bertie

Maybe its time to coin this kind of warm winter winter weather a name... 

I'm thinking 'Spanish Winter' 

So we have Spanish plumes, Indian summers, Beast from the East, and now a Spanish Winter.. 

The weather news this morning mentioned that Ardnagrask in Sutherland recorded 17.5C at 5AM yesterday morning.

The record December high was recorded somewhere near there too I believe but not I suspect at 5AM.

The max December record for UK, going back to 1948, is 18.3c recorded at Achnashellach (Wester Ross)

Yes, the lists on UKww get updated by Kev as and when - so include all records up to and including yesterday

Full list of monthly data here:

http://www.ukweatherworld.co.uk/forum/index.php?/topic/86682-daily-maxima-and-minima-records-for-each-month/

Great; had fun browsing through those; gave me pleasure to see that low Nov crown fall- silly number considering what Oct and Dec can deliver.

XCweather showing Pershore at 16'c. Presumably the date record has already been broken

Not quite Dave.

Data is recorded from 09z to 09z each day. Any temperature recorded prior to 0900 this morning will be treated as relating to the 18th as far as the maximum is concerned. The record for the 18th is 18.0C so no date record there.

For the 19th the minimum CET will be calculated from 09z on the 18th to 09z on the 19th. The maximum CET for the 19th is calculated from 09z on the 19th to 09z on the 20th.

So if Pershore remains above 15.5C at 09z this morning the date record will have gone (currently at 15.7C).

At 06z this morning temperatures were above 15C in a number of areas right across the UK:

Kinloss 15.4C
Carlisle 15.0C
Rhyl 15.3C
Shawbury 15.2C
Pershore 15.7C
Coleshill 15.2C
St James Park 15.1C
Yeovilton 15.2C
Filton 15.1C
Chivenor 15.4C
Brize Norton 15.2C

Apparently Chivenor in Devon didn't get below 14.2c a December min record if confirmed. Crazy times

Cheers Simon 

14.9C in Cheadle Hulme this morning.

If this was in July we would be looking at 25C minimums and I believe UK can capable of getting this mid 20's overnight temps in a right set-up, they had a chance last summer but was denied from getting while Europe was baking hot.  Toronto going to have a mild Christmas eve at 11C with rain so we are not alone being mild here. I saw the forecast other day and it show W Russia also mild as well.

Sooner or later we're going to hit the jackpot regarding heatwaves in the summer we've been unlucky the last couple of years. Next summer could be the one.

Hope so like a 1989 summer after a mild Dec 1988. I remember waking up to 17C in early morning with sweat at my old boarding school before going to colder Cyprus on the following day.  This time I like to see a return of occasional heatwaves from May to September that lasting more than few days to 1 week each time.