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Brian Gaze
19 July 2022 21:57:56

22.8C here so about 17C cooler than it was 7 hours ago.

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Charmhills
19 July 2022 21:58:01


Yep, raging fires in the news because of the dry conditions, lets send up some Chinese lanterns.


 




Originally Posted by: JHutch 


 


FFS!!

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Rob K
19 July 2022 21:59:11


 


I noticed many stations began levelling off at some point. I’d be looking at stations where it’s sunny with only a light breeze and the temperature would begin jumping up and down for no reason - say from 39.5C, down to 39.1C, then up to 39.4C, rinse and repeat for half an hour. 


Originally Posted by: LeedsLad123 


As the Met explained in a tweet there’s only a certain amount of heat in the air even when fully mixed. 

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TimS
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19 July 2022 22:00:35
Just stepping back and reflecting for one moment.

40C is one of those things that you wonder might happen, but assume probably won’t. That it has happened now in 2022 is quite incredible.

I can’t think of any weather event or threshold in my adult life as important as this one: not the snow of 2010, or the record and 100F in 2003, or any storms, floods or droughts in the last 25 years, and we’ve had a fair few. This is so much further beyond the normal range than anything else I’ve experienced.

40C. 40C!
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White Meadows
19 July 2022 22:02:08

Just stepping back and reflecting for one moment.

40C is one of those things that you wonder might happen, but assume probably won’t. That it has happened now in 2022 is quite incredible.

I can’t think of any weather event or threshold in my adult life as important as this one: not the snow of 2010, or the record and 100F in 2003, or any storms, floods or droughts in the last 25 years, and we’ve had a fair few. This is so much further beyond the normal range than anything else I’ve experienced.

40C. 40C!

Originally Posted by: TimS 

Amen. 

idj20
19 July 2022 22:16:53

Well, that was a cheeky storm. But only gave me 0.6 mm of rain in passing.


Temperatures has dropped down to a more humane 21.6 C, still swampy though as humidity has shot up to 85% but at least there is that brisk west breeze.

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Chunky Pea
19 July 2022 22:25:22


It just won't cool down tonight. 27.8C outside at 22.40 hrs !!


Originally Posted by: fairweather 


Sounds horrific to be honest and you have my sympathies. 14c here with a nice NW breeze coming in the window but I still find it oppressive. I really hate summer, not so much for the bright sunshine and lush greenery everywhere, which I embrace, but for temps and humidity like this. Just not built for it and I don't think most pasty arsed, light eyed N Europeans are. 

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Zubzero
19 July 2022 22:27:22

it's crazy the temp just rose about a degree in 20 min from 27.5c to 28.4 this day w3atherwise will take some beating 

marco 79
19 July 2022 22:51:29
27.6c here...at 23.51...crazy
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LeedsLad123
19 July 2022 23:21:43

Just stepping back and reflecting for one moment.

40C is one of those things that you wonder might happen, but assume probably won’t. That it has happened now in 2022 is quite incredible.

I can’t think of any weather event or threshold in my adult life as important as this one: not the snow of 2010, or the record and 100F in 2003, or any storms, floods or droughts in the last 25 years, and we’ve had a fair few. This is so much further beyond the normal range than anything else I’ve experienced.

40C. 40C!

Originally Posted by: TimS 


Not to mention 100F as far north as Yorkshire. The UK didn’t even reach 100F until 2003, and now half of England has passed that threshold, with many towns & cities smashing previous records by up to 5 degrees.


Yorkshire and London’s record high temperatures are now only 0.4C apart.  

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Zubzero
19 July 2022 23:29:51
At last temps finally starting to fall away as the wind swings round to the sw from a se it was for most of yesterday

Dropped to 24.5 from 27.4 half hour ago
bledur
20 July 2022 04:40:54

Met Office this morning??


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Ally Pally Snowman
20 July 2022 04:55:08


Met Office this morning??


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Originally Posted by: bledur 


Yes I noticed that, looks like it could be an software error. As all the regions only have 39.9c as well. Appalling from the met office whatever the reason. Their online stuff is just crap at times.


 

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AJ*
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20 July 2022 05:16:32


Yep, raging fires in the news because of the dry conditions, lets send up some Chinese lanterns.


 




Originally Posted by: JHutch 


Chinese lanterns are a device for committing random arson.

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nsrobins
20 July 2022 05:29:29


 


Yes I noticed that, looks like it could be an software error. As all the regions only have 39.9c as well. Appalling from the met office whatever the reason. Their online stuff is just crap at times.


 


Originally Posted by: Ally Pally Snowman 


Surely the reporting software isn’t capped at 39.9C? If it’s true then someone has had, as we say down here, a right mare.


The highlight for me was the sudden onset of the cooler airmass. At 5.15pm we went from 34.5C in a light SE to 26.5C an hour later in a gusty SW. Truely remarkable. 

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DEW
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20 July 2022 06:05:49


 


Yes I noticed that, looks like it could be an software error. As all the regions only have 39.9c as well. Appalling from the met office whatever the reason. Their online stuff is just crap at times.


 


Originally Posted by: Ally Pally Snowman 


Or is the 39.9 given as the highest simply the highest from a station under direct MetO control and/or with an automatic link to the reporting system? 


IIRC when Brogdale reported a record temp, the site had to be inspected and the equipment checked before the record was admitted, Brogdale being an agricultural research station not under the control of the MetO. Not sure what the situation is at Coningsby. EDIT - Google says it's an RAF station

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Caz
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20 July 2022 06:08:54

Just stepping back and reflecting for one moment.

40C is one of those things that you wonder might happen, but assume probably won’t. That it has happened now in 2022 is quite incredible.

I can’t think of any weather event or threshold in my adult life as important as this one: not the snow of 2010, or the record and 100F in 2003, or any storms, floods or droughts in the last 25 years, and we’ve had a fair few. This is so much further beyond the normal range than anything else I’ve experienced.

40C. 40C!

Originally Posted by: TimS 

 Yes, I feel the same and being born in the 50’s, I’ve had a few years to experience weather events but reaching 40c certainly tops everything.  The snow of 2010 has now fallen to second place in my personal rankings!  It makes it all the more exciting to share it with other like minded people on here too!  

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DEW
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20 July 2022 06:17:18


 Yes, I feel the same and being born in the 50’s, I’ve had a few years to experience weather events but reaching 40c certainly tops everything.  The snow of 2010 has now fallen to second place in my personal rankings!  It makes it all the more exciting to share it with other like minded people on here too!  


Originally Posted by: Caz 


Not even the winter of 62-63? That period of extreme weather lasted for 2 months, not 2 days.


But in your defence, I should mention that the 1947 winter, which happened for me at about the same age as you would have been in 1963,  doesn't figure as dramatically as 1963 when I was 20.

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Chichester 12m asl
Rob K
20 July 2022 06:19:57


 


Or is the 39.9 given as the highest simply the highest from a station under direct MetO control or with an automatic link to the reporting system? 


IIRC when Brogdale reported a record temp, the site had to be inspected and the equipment checked before the record was admitted, Brogdale being an agricultural research station not under the control of the MetO. Not sure what the situation is at Coningsby.


Originally Posted by: DEW 


No, because for the London and southeast region it gives Charlwood as the max at 39.9C but Heathrow is a regular on that page. It also quotes Kew Gatdens (which broke 40C) in the highest rainfall section!


 


what a cockup. I am sure they will fix it manually at some point today. 

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Ally Pally Snowman
20 July 2022 06:20:30


 


Or is the 39.9 given as the highest simply the highest from a station under direct MetO control or with an automatic link to the reporting system? 


IIRC when Brogdale reported a record temp, the site had to be inspected and the equipment checked before the record was admitted, Brogdale being an agricultural research station not under the control of the MetO. Not sure what the situation is at Coningsby. EDIT - Google says it's an RAF station


Originally Posted by: DEW 


No lots of Met stations got 40c or over yesterday.  Heathrow,  St James's park,  Coningsby etc. 

Bishop's Stortford 85m ASL.
Ally Pally Snowman
20 July 2022 06:23:36


 


No, because for the London and southeast region it gives Charlwood as the max at 39.9C but Heathrow is a regular on that page. It also quotes Kew Gatdens (which broke 40C) in the highest rainfall section!


 


what a cockup. I am sure they will fix it manually at some point today. 


Originally Posted by: Rob K 


It's a shambles,  but I suppose us weather geeks will be the only ones that notice/care.

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DEW
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20 July 2022 06:24:03


 


Surely the reporting software isn’t capped at 39.9C? If it’s true then someone has had, as we say down here, a right mare.


The highlight for me was the sudden onset of the cooler airmass. At 5.15pm we went from 34.5C in a light SE to 26.5C an hour later in a gusty SW. Truely remarkable. 


Originally Posted by: nsrobins 


And doubly so as it happened with no more than a light shower or two. Give me back my thunderstorms

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NMA
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20 July 2022 06:26:23


Chinese lanterns are a device for committing random arson.


Originally Posted by: AJ* 


I would assume that the destructive London fires yesterday that seemed to occur at around the same time were started deliberately.


We're not strangers to these kinds of events in Dorset with heath and grass fires quite common. The thing is today the fire service and police are quite good at getting to the seat of the fire and can often pinpoint the exact spot they began. And the cause. They have a wealth of knowledge gained over the years and I guess some of the experts from Dorset might be asked to come to Essex and do their forensics.

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Ally Pally Snowman
20 July 2022 06:27:08


 


And doubly so as it happened with no more than a light shower or two. Give me back my thunderstorms


Originally Posted by: DEW 


Yes the dryness of the breakdown is really odd , no rain here whatsoever. 


 

Bishop's Stortford 85m ASL.
Heavy Weather 2013
20 July 2022 06:36:26
Anyone wake up this morning thinking what the hell happened yesterday. I’m still in shock with what we experienced.
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