Echo return from just NW of York?

I've decided that anything over 26c is a bit too much for me unless I've got a pool to dip into!    

Both my sensors are now showing 30.6c and it's a bit too hot to sit in the garden as there's no shade.  Now and again there's a nice light breeze pulling through the house and keeping it cool indoors.  There is also a bit of cloud bubbling up.  A thunder storm would be perfect now!  Never satisfied!!   

This low cloud and hill mist is now starting to thin out and slowly turning brighter in the process. 17.2 C with 84% humidity. I don't think there's that much danger of heatstroke and dehydration just yet.

Leapt to 16.7C. I shouldn't be too surprised, I'm about 100 metres from the sea which is only about 15C and I'm at the bottom of a North facing slope with an onshore wind. 

Just had a reading of 30.2C...Hot or wot...

Looks like we have got to 30c both Bournemouth and Exeter AP at 13.30pm

Sensor showing 27C near Leatherhead at 2pm. Quite a bit of cloud has bubbled up now.

There goes 29°C... challenging the highest temperature since 2006 now, which is 29.7°C on 29th June 2009.

There;s some high cloud around, streaked across the skies in classic formation.

This afternoon, while reading a book called "Since Records Began: The highs and lows of Britains weather" by Paul Simons, I was caught by this line regarding the attitudes to climate change before the hot summer of 1976:

"After all, what was there really to worry about, when the firs thalf of the 1970s had been a grim procession of cold winters and dissapointing summers." (p.98)

That sure does sound familiar from a weather perspective, and there have even been a few cases of people questioning the proposed long-term rise in UK temperatures based on it. This time around they have been by far the minority, of course.

It's really got me thinking, especially given how the evolution of the situation featured a decent but not nearly as persistently fine and hot summer in 1975.

A hot 30.2c here and does it feel it, with most weather stations in or around 29 to 31c in the East Midlands.

27.1C here now, hottest day so far and still time for an increase...also the dew point has risen to 18.6C - humid indeed.

New provisional UK maximum temperature for 2013

Latest observations show provisionally that the new highest temperature of the year so far has been recorded at Heathrow and Exeter Airport on Saturday 13 July, reaching 30.0 C. Before this, 29.9 C at Edenfel, County Tyrone in Northern Ireland on Monday 8 July was the previous UK maximum. Meanwhile, Scotland saw its highest temperature of the year so far during the afternoon of Tuesday 9 July, reaching 28.7 C at Strathallan Airfield. Issued at 1407 on Sat 13 Jul 2013.

Just nudged over the 30 degC mark here at 1340 BST, in Exminster (3 miles South of Exeter). Sea breeze looks like it's set to invade now as the wind direction has swung round from NE to SE and the temp has fallen back to 29 degC with a steady 8 mph breeze now. Highest max since Aug 2003 here. (31.5 on 10th, that year.)

http://xcweather.co.uk/

Find Exeter and you can see 31°C at 2:20pm (rounded up... or down)

Hurn reported 28°C (again no decimals given) which is a drop from the 1:50pm reading - sea breeze starting to fight back I wonder?

I'm hoping the 2:50 report from Boscombe Down will lend support to my current temperature reading of 29.5°C

Have we hit 32C anywhere yet.

Not officially.

Here's the official maxima as of right now:

Official max so far looks to be Exeter 30.3c

That beats the 30.1c recorded at Durrow yesterday as the highest temp in the British Isles this summer.