Summer has been fabulous here. I reckon best summer since 2006.

Hasnt been noteworthy down here.. bar a couple of hot days. 

2013 & 14 still better so far.

Those look good.

Some respite from the heat and dry conditions down here this week. A good soaking now probable for the SE. 

Lots of itty-bitty fronts on the fax charts all over the south in the next few days, but looks more like 'nuisance' rain to me, borne out by the MetO forecast which only has a sprinkling of showers. 

But my garden could do with any rain that's going, so not a nuisance there.

http://www.theweatheroutlook.com/twodata/chart.aspx?chart=/charts/gem/240_mslp850.png?cb=783

More than just another plume- if an easterly sets up from this, 2003 comes to mind.

But it is the GEM.

Definitely a warming trend being picked up now by the gfs ensembles.  Some very hot runs in there by the end.

Quite so David. It will be interesting to see how this pans out. I'm far from convinced that the amount of rainfall being progged will be received. Convection by its very nature is hit and miss and normally steers clear of the south coast if there is any maritime influence from the channel in there. Tuesday nights rain event could still slip further south leaving us high and dry.

We shall see.

Worth keeping an eye on. If 100F is going to be achieved its going to be this year based on the first half of this very warm summer. Maybe we are seeing the first glimmer of it on the GEFS horizon 

Just looked at Accuweather and i see no signs of anything that hot up to the end of July. Been pretty accurate for this area last couple of months , certainly better than Met Office automated forecasts.

ECM 12z op run is about as good a run as I've seen from any model at any point in the last 6 weeks or so. It would pretty much guarantee the entire UK a decent spell of summery weather should it verify as shown.

Stunning ecm especially for those in the south but all areas get in on the act by day 8. And by day 10 looks to be setting up a prolonged heatwave.

http://old.wetterzentrale.de/pics/Recm1201.html

http://old.wetterzentrale.de/pics/Recm1441.html

http://old.wetterzentrale.de/pics/Recm1921.html

http://old.wetterzentrale.de/pics/Recm2401.html

It's a stunner alright gem and gfs similar as well so good output all round. 

If ECM12z verified I'd not be surprised to see 100F in the UK late this month. 

With the right Synoptics between 14 July and 14 August, I'd say 40c is not out of the question. It would be good to see the all time record decimated. 

You will be front page news with quotes like that

What we would probably need is for a heatwave to firstly get established, and secondly last for at least a week in duration for us to have the best shot at it. IIRC, the all-time record in August 2003 was set a week or so after that heatwave first commenced.

That said, 37C was recorded at the start of July 2015 somewhere in the south and that didn't turn out to be a prolonged hot spell. My recollection is that the hot spell broke a few days into July and then it never really recovered for the rest of that month.

2 day or 3 day  wonder heatwaves manage 35c easily. A 2003 style event would tip us over 40c, in my view. I hope the theory gets tested over the next 6 weeks. 

What is even more remarkable is that this happened within what ended up being a colder than average month according to the CET records. I can remember that every summer month in 2015 had a cooler than average CET and of course, that is still the last cooler than average summer to date, which we (by that, I mean the area which is covered by CET records, and not specifically in the part of the world where I am) have had according to the CET records.

But that wasn't the case when the July record went in 2015 ;)

We could sure do with a good August James, although I'm very much hoping hoping to see an improvement in my area rather sooner than that after what has been a pretty mediocre start to the summer here. We haven't really had that many, if any, especially good Augusts since that incredible first fortnight of August '03.

FWIW, I recall that the summer of 1990 had a poor June in my area and the weather remained so until around mid-July. But the middle weekend of that July saw a real transformation and that summer ended up giving us what was the hottest day on record in this country at the time at the start of August. (37.1C at Cheltenham on 3/8/1990 I think it was).

850s around 16/17 July are now getting close to 12C. Nothing exceptional but possibly another fine snap crawling out of the woodwork. Seems to be happening a lot this summer. Would make for an interesting winter set-up -10C 850 incursion popped up frequently in Dec/Jan/Feb.