Genuine scorcher in portsmouth despite neither of the local metoffice stations being warm.
Gosport 28.4C
Gosport 28.8C
Portsea area 27C
Around town though felt more like 32C+ but no thermometer.
North end/ hilsea 31C - though I think more around 30C
Originally Posted by: nsrobins
30.3 max on my 'official' thermometer here in Denmead - highest for many years.
Originally Posted by: picturesareme
Denmead has an official stations?? Do you have link?
I always thought thorney & Solent where the only official stations in the area.
Originally Posted by: nsrobins
It's only official to me LOL. It's an admiralty max/min mercury thermometer in a home-built Stevenson's screen which in 90% of occasions is pretty much spot on with what would be the estimated deviation from the reading for Southampton, a location about the same distance inland as me.
In other words, it's pretty good.
Originally Posted by: picturesareme