Heatwave July 2013 - Part III· Page 24

Hungry Tiger
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24 July 2013 22:35:47

All the best to you John - can't imagine what a collapsed lung feels like. Hope your recovery is swift

Now then... just popped on here to report that my local sunshine total for July has just exceeded 300 hours, beating 2006's 297.5 hours, which was my previous record for all years back to 2005.

My sunshine values are somewhat approximate but often match the official regional recordings fairly well. What's more, there's still enough of the month left for the total to keep on climbing, so it should be notably above 300 in the end - enough so to give reasonably high confidence that it's gone through that impressive benchmark .

Also worth noting that it's still 18°C outside despite 'only' maxing at 24°C today.

Originally Posted by: Jiries

Please keep updating it as the UK offical highest sunshine hours in a month was 383.9 at Eastbourne during July 1911. My highest sun hours total was 358.30 in July 2006.

Originally Posted by: Stormchaser

From what I am aware the highest sunshine total ever recorded/observed in the UK was in Jersey in 1868 and that was over 400 hours.

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P+ve Giant
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24 July 2013 23:06:42

#577

17.7C at 89% Relative Humidity here at gone midnight. 'Only' maxed out at 24C yesterday but the higher humidity making it still feel like heatwave conditions

John.

John p
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24 July 2013 23:30:50

#578

Thanks all👍

Camberley, Surrey

Rob K
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25 July 2013 01:16:08

#579

From what I am aware the highest sunshine total ever recorded/observed in the UK was in Jersey in 1868 and that was over 400 hours.

Originally Posted by: Hungry Tiger

Jersey isn't (and never has been) part of the UK. Might as well quote the sunshine figures for Gibraltar or Bermuda

BTW I was going to post that it looks like Wednesday was the first day since July 5 that the temperature failed to reach 28C at an official station, but I now see that Norwich airport just snuck in with a 28.0C, extending the run to 19 days! I think tomorrow will struggle to prolong it to 20 days though.

PS Get well soon to my NE Hants neighbour John P!

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ARTzeman
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25 July 2013 12:43:40

#580

Got to 29.9c reading here Yesterday..Going down today from 27.2c. to 25c already..Such a differnt feel ...

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Rob K
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25 July 2013 12:52:38

#581

Got to 29.9c reading here Yesterday..

Originally Posted by: ARTzeman

That seems very warm; the highest official max was 28.0C and that was way to the east of you, in Norwich!

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springsunshine
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25 July 2013 13:45:45

#582

Heatwave well and truly gone now,today and yesterday seeing normal/average july temps here.

Very pleasant

ARTzeman
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25 July 2013 14:30:07

#583

Got to 29.9c reading here Yesterday..

Originally Posted by: Rob K

That seems very warm; the highest official max was 28.0C and that was way to the east of you, in Norwich!

Originally Posted by: ARTzeman

UNSCREENED...

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Essan
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25 July 2013 14:43:37

#584

Currently sweating like the winner of the sweatiest man contest at the sweaty olympics in sweatytown......

Temps may only be 3 or 4 degrees above average, but the warm spell is by no means over round here! Give me a frost anyeveryday!

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NickR
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25 July 2013 14:55:08

#585

Buggar me it's sweltering with his humidity. So far we've seen 1mm in rain in the "breakdown"... I'm hoping it will keep off tonight as I'm off to see the Twenty20 at Durham!

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Sinky1970
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25 July 2013 15:18:57

#586

I thought it was supposed to be cooler today, the temperature has topped 27c again today, 4 degrees above the BBC's estimate.

Crepuscular Ray
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25 July 2013 15:25:45

#587

In Notts for 2 days. 25 yesterday and 26 today with high humidity. just about to head home on train 18 C in Edinburgh!

Jerry
Edinburgh, in the frost hollow below Blackford Hill

NickR
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25 July 2013 15:26:47

#588

In Notts for 2 days. 25 yesterday and 26 today with high humidity. just about to head home on train 18 C in Edinburgh!

Originally Posted by: Crepuscular Ray

First day in a while that we haven't hit 25°C here - currently 24.3°C, max 24.4°C... but it feels hotter than previous days with the humidity.

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NickR
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25 July 2013 15:31:03

#589

In Notts for 2 days. 25 yesterday and 26 today with high humidity. just about to head home on train 18 C in Edinburgh!

Originally Posted by: NickR

First day in a while that we haven't hit 25°C here - currently 24.3°C, max 24.4°C... but it feels hotter than previous days with the humidity.

Originally Posted by: Crepuscular Ray

Scrap that - was looking at wrong data - currently 24.9°C, max 27.0°C

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nickl
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25 July 2013 15:52:31

#590

Here's a job for someone.

Sitting in e china after another sweltering day and according to wunderground, the max in china today was 40c. (As it was yesterday). it felt hotter. Thing is, i was told by someone here that it never goe above 40c cos if it does, legally the workers can go home.

Anyone find stats for max temps here. Clearly i cant search google for the info. A quick look on wunderground seems to show the daily record highs being 40c, even for guangzhou in the south where i would have thought that at some point it would have been higher.

If this is true, do you think the stats fed to global met data orgs reflect the 'truth' or the truth ??

Charmhills
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25 July 2013 16:29:57

#591

I could do with an end to this now - was diagnosed with a collapsed lung yesterday so am breathing at half capacity until I recover. Just want some fresh air!

Originally Posted by: John p

Hang in there John autumn isn't all that far away.

Very warm again, 25c though less humid.

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Rob K
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26 July 2013 10:03:36

#592

The end of an era: Norwich airport only managed 27.9C max yesterday so by 0.1C we missed out on 20 straight days of 28C+!

Also last night it dipped to 9.7C at Farnborough - the first excursion into single figures IMBY for some time. I noticed when cycling back that the "frost pocket" along the Reading Road near Blackwater was in full effect with cold air draining off the common. Really quite striking how you suddenly hit a cold wall of air.

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