Yup, managed to squeeze a 25.0 so technically still in the heat category.  Very pleasant all in all.

Ahhh what a gorgeous day. Fresher feel but still 27C. Perfect temperature. Heavenly.

so with apologies to those outside of the SE, that's a sequence of:

25C, 31C, 33C, 29C, 27C

thats a lovely spell of summer weather. :)

I have to confess that normally I'm a heat and humidity fan..earlier today though was tough. I simply could not get dry after my morning shower !

At 3.30am soon after the passing thundery shower a temperature of 23.3c was accompanied by a dewpoint of 22.0c.

https://www.wunderground.com/personal-weather-station/dashboard?ID=IENGLAND1138#history

The highest I've ever witnessed.

After 9am the DP's dropped away as others have testified its feeling far more tolerable now. 

Writtle again the hotspot yesterday 28.1c . Difficult forecast today but some very warm air near the SE again could see temps of 28c /29c again.

Heat and humidity building again. 23c with a dewpoint of 18c.

Does feel much more humid today here as well. With enough sunshine think somewhere in Kent could get close to 30c

Yesterday was comfortable heat, today is back to the oppressive sticky tropical style. Hoping to get some rain as the garden needs it!

Well all our local stations show over 27c with the closest at 28C (Charlwood is the closest I think) so that's

25C, 31C, 33C, 29C, 27C, 28C

Very hot and humid today though. Not as pleasant as yesterday's 27c. Cloud bubbled up briefly to his afternoon too else we would have had more.

Conscious how limited in geographical scope this hot spell has been but no less welcome for it

Agreed, churlish to moan about it, considering what we tolerate the rest of the time.

LAST 5 DAYS:   29, 31, 28,25,25.

While not a heatwave here, the working week averaged 4.25*C above the combined LTA for those dates. Today's failure to heat up much has dropped the figure to +3.79*C, and based on model numbers tomorrow should lower it to somewhere between +3.5 and +3.6*C.

That's not bad going, but also seemingly nothing special; it's a little under half a degree short of the 7-day mean anomaly for the hot spell in July and almost identical to the value for the period 5th-11th June this year.

I say seemingly, because it's among the warmest last full weeks of August to have been recorded here in at least two decades. Closest contender is that of 2002.

Impressively, the signs of warm weather next week mean that a 10-day period with an anomaly of over +3*C ma be achieved. I have to go back to the sudden arrival of summer in the first half of May to beat that. Still a long way off the warmest 10-day period of the year, though, which spanned 24th January to 2nd February and came in at +5*C . 

Ah, but how does that compare to Dec 2015, I hear you ask? (!) ...  well, the month as a whole came in at +6.52*C so that already has it in the bag, but the period 17th-26th really takes the mickey, coming in at +7.07*C! Boxing Day registered at +9.27*C anomaly!

This has been a bit of a stats onslaught out of nowhere I know - but I thought it was a good way to hit home just how absurd Dec 2015 was 

With the first wafts of SW'ly stirring outside to bring fresher air in it seems like a good time to reflect on what has been an impressive last five days.

Maxes as follows - 29.3, 31.5, 28.0, 25.1, 27.3

Mins as follows - 12.6, 20.2, 18.6, 16.7, 16.7

Max dewpoints have been a real feature of this spell - 18c,19c,21c,19c,21c.

Considering at this relatively coastal location our average is 20.8c by day and 13.8c overnight in late August the above stats have been impressive to say the least !

A mean of 22.53c compared with our usual 17.3c.

Today the Belgian Met Office officially declared a heatwave. Once again today temps hit 35c which is twice this week. Other days saw 34c.

Currently at 2250 local time  my indoor temp is 29c. Upon leaving downtown Leuven 30 mins ago the air temp was 28c.

Over Liege at the moment there is a spectacular strom passing through.

link ( in Dutch)

http://www.hln.be/hln/nl/2654/Extreme-Aarde/article/detail/2841439/2016/08/27/Officieel-de-hittegolf-is-een-feit.dhtml

best rgds

Chris - Leuven 30km East of Brussels

Good post Steve, nice collection of facts that attest to what an amazing spell of weather it has been down here.  The only thing you have forgotten to mention is the almost unbroken sunshine for around 13 hours a day for the past week or so.  My PV Panels have been generating away on an unparalleled scale, and August 2016 looks like being a record breaking month in that respect, having had them since March 2014.

August 2016 is possibly not going to eclipse the amazing month that was August 2009, but this hot spell has certainly been  Kent Summer Weather at its very best IMHO.