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picturesareme
13 July 2013 17:40:11



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 


ah lol i see  fair enough :-)


This is my new one as before i used a food probe lol. Its not as good as yours but it give's a fair idea of the temperature so long as its in a well ventialated area well away from where the sun has recently been shining. Work recordings still done with a food probe lol.


My new one is just a max/min recorder.



currently 23.5C

Arctic Hare
13 July 2013 18:02:07

Made it! We just hit 30.0 °C late this afternoon, beating last Sunday's 28.1 °C by a good margin. A bit of a nerve-jangler: we got to 29.8 °C about 14.00, but it just wouldn't go any higher. The max was actually reached just before 18.00, ahead of what seems to have been a short-lived thundery shower.

Rob K
13 July 2013 18:15:32

The Tesco.com shop just arrived and... no beer! Sold out. A sign of the times :(

Originally Posted by: nsrobins 


LOL. I bet you got a pack of medium flow tampax and an avocado as an alternative?

Originally Posted by: Rob K 



Nope, strangely - "no suitable alternative available". So I jumped on my bike and came back with a crate under my arm from the 24hr shop. BBQ rescued!
Yateley, NE Hampshire, 73m asl
"But who wants to be foretold the weather? It is bad enough when it comes, without our having the misery of knowing about it beforehand." — Jerome K. Jerome
Gooner
13 July 2013 18:21:22


The Tesco.com shop just arrived and... no beer! Sold out. A sign of the times :(

Originally Posted by: Rob K 


LOL. I bet you got a pack of medium flow tampax and an avocado as an alternative?


Originally Posted by: nsrobins 



Nope, strangely - "no suitable alternative available". So I jumped on my bike and came back with a crate under my arm from the 24hr shop. BBQ rescued!

Originally Posted by: Rob K 


Smart work Rob, no flies on you


I should imagine sales of BBQ related products have gone through the roof the last 7 days and will continue to do so


Remember anything after T120 is really Just For Fun



Marcus
Banbury
North Oxfordshire
378 feet A S L


13 July 2013 18:32:06
Hot spot today was Heathrow with 31.4C

Wisley will have been close behind although no maximum available at the moment for this site. But it did reach 30.8C at 1700
Marigold
13 July 2013 18:32:10


The Tesco.com shop just arrived and... no beer! Sold out. A sign of the times :(

Originally Posted by: nsrobins 


LOL. I bet you got a pack of medium flow tampax and an avocado as an alternative?


Originally Posted by: Rob K 


That was so funny  - or maybe it's just the heat. Eating outdoors yet again - this is perfect


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Hungry Tiger
13 July 2013 18:41:40

Hot spot today was Heathrow with 31.4C

Wisley will have been close behind although no maximum available at the moment for this site. But it did reach 30.8C at 1700


Originally Posted by: Global Warming 



 


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13 July 2013 18:44:26

29.4ºC here today, equal warmest day (with July 1st 2009) since 2006.


I'm a little disappointed that we couldn't break the 30ºC barrier though.

Rob K
13 July 2013 18:48:37

Hot spot today was Heathrow with 31.4C

Wisley will have been close behind although no maximum available at the moment for this site. But it did reach 30.8C at 1700

Originally Posted by: Global Warming 



Strangely every year since 2009 has recorded a higher max than that, despite the lack of prolonged summer heatwaves.

I wonder if we will improve on this mark.
Yateley, NE Hampshire, 73m asl
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Gooner
13 July 2013 18:51:19

Hot spot today was Heathrow with 31.4C

Wisley will have been close behind although no maximum available at the moment for this site. But it did reach 30.8C at 1700

Originally Posted by: Rob K 



Strangely every year since 2009 has recorded a higher max than that, despite the lack of prolonged summer heatwaves.

I wonder if we will improve on this mark.

Originally Posted by: Global Warming 


Tuesday onwards looks the next best guess ( going by the numbers on GFS )


Remember anything after T120 is really Just For Fun



Marcus
Banbury
North Oxfordshire
378 feet A S L


Stormchaser
13 July 2013 19:00:34

Does anyone know of any site where I can find the maximums (to one decimal place) for the offical weather stations today? Looking for Boscombe Down in particular, seeing as it showed 29.7°C at both 4pm and 6pm... curious as to the actual max tia


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RobSnowman
13 July 2013 19:14:35
Certainly been hot here in Exeter today and I'm not far from the airport. I took refuge in the shade of a tree at the park, as my south-facing bedroom was oppressive. 31 degrees is certainly not what I'm used to being from the north. Enjoyed it though, far more than the soggy weather there was down here last summer.
Took a shower a mere 30 minutes ago, and the fresher feel lasted all of five minutes. Oh well.
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Gooner
13 July 2013 19:48:27

http://www.wunderground.com/wundermap/


Some high temps still about


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Marcus
Banbury
North Oxfordshire
378 feet A S L


Rob K
13 July 2013 20:16:01

Does anyone know of any site where I can find the maximums (to one decimal place) for the offical weather stations today? Looking for Boscombe Down in particular, seeing as it showed 29.7°C at both 4pm and 6pm... curious as to the actual max tia

Originally Posted by: Stormchaser 



Most of them are on here

http://www.met.rdg.ac.uk/~brugge/pmextremes.html 

30.2C at Boscombe Down.
Yateley, NE Hampshire, 73m asl
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Stormchaser
13 July 2013 20:34:14


Does anyone know of any site where I can find the maximums (to one decimal place) for the offical weather stations today? Looking for Boscombe Down in particular, seeing as it showed 29.7°C at both 4pm and 6pm... curious as to the actual max tia


Originally Posted by: Rob K 



Most of them are on here

http://www.met.rdg.ac.uk/~brugge/pmextremes.html

30.2C at Boscombe Down.

Originally Posted by: Stormchaser 


Thanks very much Rob, just the ticket


How much effort would it be for the Met Office to offer a 'UK extremes' feature that shows the maximum for each official station on the map? Maybe I should suggest it in an email


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Medlock Vale Weather
13 July 2013 22:00:34

Wouldn't want to live in central London tonight, still 23C in some locations.  http://www.wunderground.com/weatherstation/WXDailyHistory.asp?ID=IGREATER13


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DeeDee
13 July 2013 22:01:55
Its +23c here still, and +25c when I walked in the house having been out since 4pm

Edit: all my neighbours are out in the gardens, I'm drinking tea and listening to the owls calling across the street! The tawney owls are soooo loud, and even land in the tree within a few feet of us when we're outside.
Harpenden, Herts.
Jiries
13 July 2013 22:16:36


Wouldn't want to live in central London tonight, still 23C in some locations.  http://www.wunderground.com/weatherstation/WXDailyHistory.asp?ID=IGREATER13


Originally Posted by: Medlock Vale Weather 


Love to see those such warm night temps.

Hamptonian
13 July 2013 23:50:12

31.9c and still rising.

Originally Posted by: Fun in the Sun 



30.7c here. Only a few clouds. Sitting by the river. Lovely.Some people are swimming in the river. I'm not that hot!

Originally Posted by: Hamptonian 


It maxed out at 32.6c


Probably the Vue over-reading again slightly. Maybe being slightly further inland from the river has a small effect on the temperature too?


I spent the majority of the day working at Heathrow and it felt incredibly hot there! Not surprising it was the highest max in the UK because you could definitely feel it!


I can imagine the river was a popular spot today, the Thames riverside at Hampton, Hampton Court, Teddington and Richmond really is beautiful at this time of year! (minus the flower show traffic )

Hamptonian
13 July 2013 23:58:43

Has anybody noticed the huge temperature range at Exeter for the 13th?


I'm not sure if there's two stations and I'm getting mixed up, but according to the Met Office UK overview for 13th July, Exeter recorded the lowest minimum of 7.7c:


http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/uk/uk_latest_weather.html


And I think it maxed at somewhere around 31c? That would make a temperature range of around 23c!

schmee
14 July 2013 07:12:44
Shes hot today already. The heatwave continues.
Observations from around GUILDFORD in SURREY and now Nottingham
ARTzeman
14 July 2013 08:27:09

Definitly Heatwave weather...Looking at BBBC weather for Bath...End of 10th day shows 32c temprature...






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Gooner
14 July 2013 08:30:27

Horrible night last night, very uncomfortable


Kids walking around like zombies this morning


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Marcus
Banbury
North Oxfordshire
378 feet A S L


Stormchaser
14 July 2013 09:00:05

Temperature already several degrees into the 20's... the odd thing is I keep forgetting that it's not even 10am


Slept surprisingly well last night but only after the seemingly mandatory fight with a non-existent person in my room at around 1am. Whenever I get hot, I have that sort of dream, but only once, after which I tend to sleep fine. Does make the idea of one day sharing a double bed seem risky though




I'm loving the warm mornings eating breakfast outside. If I could sleep early and wake early (yeah... dream on) then I would, as 6-9am is IMO an amazing time of day during a summer heatwave.


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Stormchaser
14 July 2013 09:39:26

Well there goes 25°C at 10:20 in the morning! That's about a degree ahead of yesterday at the same time. Interesting when combined with slightly lower humidity.


For the automated Met Office and BBC location forecasts to verify, the temperature has to only climb 3°C from there I know less warm air is trying to feed down from the north, but it's such a gentle airflow that I can't see it having much effect today. Amazingly even GFS only goes for 29°C.


All very interesting to me, I do like it when the weather is more extreme (in a relative sense) than the model/forecast 


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