What heatwave would you like to see? [REQUEST]

[CryoraptorA303]

Summer 2029: Incidentally, the hottest weather of the year was technically outside of summer, with a freakish May heatwave taking the first May annual maximum since 1944 and also breaking the record set just five years earlier with 34.9°C at Manston.

I have only just noticed I forgot about 2026 for some reason, the next request will be for 2026.

[B87]

A heatwave where everything combines perfectly to deliver the hottest theoretical temperature possible in late July/early August. None of this high cloud slowing things down like in Aug 2003 or Jul 2019, and the warmest air will be over us during the afternoon, not overnight like in July 2022's 40c day.

The heatwave will also smash London's record of 16 consecutive days above 30c. And be the first July or August with an average max of 30.0c.

[WYorksWeather]

 CryoraptorA303 Interesting concept.

My birthday is in early April, so I should probably say a highly unseasonal period of weather for that time of year, with a new record set as part of an extended period of very warm weather, but this probably won't be an 'official' heatwave due to the time of year, with probably only two or three days around the record likely to qualify.

Obviously given my location the heat should be centred more over northern/eastern England. Records can be set elsewhere (since it'd be infeasible I think to get a new all-time April record in Yorkshire), but Yorkshire should only be a degree or two lower than each day's countrywide maximum.

For extra fun, include a plausible temperature and station for Yorkshire alongside the daily maximum countrywide.

[CryoraptorA303]

 baddie

"October 2029" heatwave & greater warm spell:

1st: 29.8°C Cavendish
2nd: 31.7°C Wisley
3rd: 30.3°C Nottingham, Watnall Park
4th: 29.6°C Cambridge
5th: 29.2°C Manston
6th: 28.6°C Herstmonceux
7th: 28.1°C Manston
8th: 27.6°C Kew Gardens
9th: 28.5°C East Malling
10th: 26.3°C Manston
11th: 25.8°C Manston
12th: 25.2°C Charsfield

In what has to be one of the most bizarre years on record, after a record breaking May heatwave and uneventful summer, an extremely unseasonable heatwave materialised in October, seeing 31.7°C at Wisley on the 2nd, breaking Gravesend's infamous record from the 2011 heatwave. Even more impressively, official heatwave conditions were held for seven consecutive days, by far a new first for October. 2029 will go down as one of the strangest years in climatic memory.

[baddie]

 CryoraptorA303 I wonder what a November heatwave would look like

[WYorksWeather]

 B87 Not to pre-empt Cryoraptor's answer, but my guess would be a new record of around 43C.

[CryoraptorA303]

 B87

"Late July/August 2026" heatwave:

28th: 28.6°C Wisley
29th: 29.7°C Heathrow
30th: 30.8°C Northolt
31st: 31.9°C Rothamsted
1st: 32.4°C Wiggonholt
2nd: 33.9°C Wisley
3rd: 37.7°C Kew Gardens
4th: 35.4°C High Beach
5th: 34.7°C Frittenden
6th: 36.6°C Kew Gardens
7th: 37.4°C Herstmonceux
8th: 37.9°C Reading
9th: 39.6°C Crawley
10th: 42.8°C East Malling (42.6°C at Kew Gardens)
11th: 40.8°C Crawley
12th: 38.6°C Faversham
13th: 37.2°C Cavendish
14th: 32.8°C East Malling
15th: 33.6°C Benson
16th: 32.7°C Pershore
17th: 34.3°C Santon Downham
18th: 31.6°C Andrewsfield
19th: 32.6°C Heathrow
20th: 30.4°C Usk
21st: 34.5°C Crawley
22nd: 36.8°C Crawley
23rd: 35.9°C Wiggonholt
24th: 34.8°C Crawley
25th: 32.3°C Cambridge
26th: 30.9°C Weybourne

Just one year after the new 40.4°C record, the nation has once again been hit by an exceptionally hot heatwave, culminating in by far the hottest month ever recorded in the British Isles. Many stations in the South saw their first calendar month with an average maximum above 30°C. The CET recorded its first ever subtropical month, seeing a mean temperature of 22.1°C. This is just one year after the first 20°C CET month. The new all-time record was 42.8°C at East Malling on August 10th. With August 2026's record unlikely to be beaten for the foreseeable, what will the future have in store?

[CryoraptorA303]

 WYorksWeather

"April 2030" unseasonal warm spell and heatwaves:

3rd: 25.7°C Coningsby (24.2°C East Park, Hull)
4th: 26.5°C Santon Downham (24.8°C Bramham)
5th: 28.8°C East Park (Hull)
6th: 29.2°C East Malling (28.4°C East Park)
7th: 28.6°C Tibenham Airfield (25.5°C East Park)
8th: 24.3°C Chivenor (21.7°C Ryhill)
9th: 26.7°C Thornes Park (Wakefield)
10th: 28.9°C Cambridge (28.2°C Leconfield)
11th: 29.6°C East Park
12th: 30.3°C Coningsby (30.1°C Bramham)
13th: 31.6°C Frittenden, East Park
14th: 29.8°C Watnall Park (Nottingham) (29.2°C Ryhill)
15th: 26.3°C Weybourne (24.3°C East Park)
16th: 22.5°C Usk (20.2°C Thornes Park)

 baddie

"November 2030" unseasonal warm spell:

1st: 21.2°C Rhyl
2nd: 23.8°C Trawsgoed
3rd: 25.4°C Gogerddan
4th: 23.6°C Exeter
5th: 23.2°C Heathrow
6th: 21.3°C Santon Downham

2030 continues the very strange behaviour from 2029 with the nation's first ever April annual maximum of 31.6°C on the 13th, set at Frittenden in Kent and Hull in East Yorkshire jointly. This is also the new April all-time record, coming as part of an extremely unseasonal spell of two heatwaves. After a very uneventful summer, exceptional weather again hit in November, with six consecutive days reaching or surpassing peak summer averages. Gogerddan in Ceredigion set a new November record of 25.4°C on the 3rd, a whole three degrees above the previous record set by nearby Trawsgoed in 2015. Overall, this year joins 2029 as one of the most unusual on record.

[LetItSnow!]

A brand new scientific discovery of artificial cooling is experimented on and goes disastrously wrong when coldies hijack the experiment and plungelarge swathes of the planet into a semi-nuclear winter. The April sees a notable warm spell in the first half before a descent into northerlies which lasts all through May. June is more anticyclonic and has some warm spells but is mostly chilly. July is extremely cyclonic and like July 2023 on steroids but colder, wetter and more thundery but with occasional nuclear bombs worth of energy wafted up from North Africa (but less intense than now) and then an August that’s anticyclonic but cool and dull but with Scotland seeing the best of the weather with a notable warm spell that concludes with the hottest, driest and best week of the year in the first half of September. 

 

I don’t know if I’m getting this right this game. I’ll let you be creative. I’m guessing this is summer 2031. This is my vengeance for for 2026!!!

[CryoraptorA303]

 Wade Apologies, I didn't see this post.

"July 2031" heatwaves:

9th: 28.5°C Wisley
10th: 30.6°C Cambridge
11th: 29.5°C Heathrow
12th: 30.8°C Porthmadog
13th: 32.6°C Wittering
14th: 30.7°C Weybourne
15th: 30.3°C Kinloss
16th: 27.4°C Pollok Country Park
17th: 29.8°C Pershore
18th: 31.5°C Heathrow
19th: 32.4°C Cavendish
20th: 33.2°C Cranwell
21st: 33.6°C Wittering
22nd: 32.5°C Monks Wood
23rd: 31.2°C East Bergholt
24th: 27.6°C Donna Nook

Summer 2031 brought the first normally-timed summer since 2028 and the hottest since the infamous 2026 heatwave. Often called the "Summer of Maximum Trolling" due to the hot, dry conditions ceasing just as schools broke up for summer holidays, dashing hopes that at least the first few weeks would have ideal weather. Annual maximum of 33.6°C at Wittering.

Edited March 5 by CryoraptorA303

[LetItSnow!]

 CryoraptorA303 Colder than July 2023 yet a 15 day hot spell. The 1st-14th and 25th-31st must be positively Artic!  

[CryoraptorA303]

 LetItSnow! Don't worry, we may be in for a "surprise" in 2032 

 

[CryoraptorA303]

 LetItSnow! Here's my attempt at this scenario.

"April 2032" warm spell:

2nd: 24.6°C St James's Park
3rd: 25.2°C Frittenden
4th: 25.1°C South Farnborough
5th: 26.4°C St James's Park
6th: 21.8°C Chivenor, Bute Park (Cardiff)
7th: 23.4°C Wiggonholt
8th: 26.5°C St James's Park
9th: 27.2°C Wisley
10th: 26.8°C Heathrow
11th: 27.8°C St James's Park

...After an unseasonable warm spell that fuelled fears of yet another abnormally timed warm season, a massive accident occurred at a government climatological facility of unknown whereabouts. The largest artificial explosion ever known in modern history was felt for hundreds of kilometres around, with its epicentre somewhere in the American southwestern desert. The explosion was a malfunction of top secret geoengineering technology. It spewed an estimated 50 million tonnes of aerosols into the troposphere. The explosion has rocked the world and climate scientists are now warning governments to expect extremely cold but also very disordered weather patterns, perhaps for the next decade.

"April 2032 cold snap"

18th: 6.4°C Scilly, -14.6°C Aultbea
19th: 3.6°C Scilly, -17.4°C Benson
20th: 1.3°C Scilly, -11.6°C Spadeadam, over 10cm of settling snowfall across much of the UK
21st: 1.8°C St James's Park, -21.5°C Santon Downham
22nd: -0.6°C Scilly, -19.6°C Pershore
23rd: 2.8°C Culdrose, -17.6°C East Malling
24th: 3.1°C St James's Park, -11.3°C Altnaharra, another 15-20cm falls across much of the UK in a deep northerly, localised parts of the Pennines, Scottish Highlands and the Kent Weald receive several feet of snow in one of the most intense April cold snaps in history

Temperatures gradually started to rise, but they stayed well below even 1969-1990 averages well into May and snow cover was reluctant to melt due to the extreme dullness blocking the strong Sun out.

A second cold snap arrived in May:

13th: 9.6°C Gogerddan, -4.8°C Spadeadam
14th: 4.4°C Bude, -8.7°C Thorncliffe
15th: 3.6°C Cardiff Bute Park, -10.5°C Santon Downham
16th: -1.4°C St. James's Park, -14.7°C Winchcombe, a further 10cm of snow falls over much of the UK, many areas are still under snow or ice from April
17th: -3.9°C Cambridge, -18.8°C Heathrow, East Malling, Santon Downham, Pershore
18th: 4.6°C Goudhurst, -6.3°C Benson

Temperatures finally started rising to those more akin for mid-spring, but some northern areas held onto their ice until early June.


Early "June 2032" warm spell:

4th: 25.6°C St James's Park
5th: 27.6°C Wisley
6th: 28.7°C Santon Downham
7th: 34.1°C St James's Park
8th: 26.4°C Weybourne

While some hoped that the explosion winter may have been coming to an end, meteorologists warned that extreme heat spikes are to be expected as part of the heavily distorted weather we are now experiencing, and another cold spell hit:

11th: 16.5°C Pershore, 6.1°C Benson
12th: 17.2°C St James's Park, 3.7°C Baltasound
13th: 13.2°C Bude, 1.8°C Altnaharra
14th: 9.6°C Morecambe, -3.4°C Santon Downham, London fails to stay above -0.8°C at St James's Park, marking its first freezing summer night since the 60s.
15th: 16.7°C Heathrow, 5.8°C Manston

Temperatures remained somewhat below average, but the Sun began to come out. Unfortunately, July would be the most disordered month ever experienced.

"July 2032" hot/mild spells:

12th: 17.7°C St James's Park
13th: 16.9°C Manston
14th: 32.6°C Bude
15th: 21.3°C Marham
16th: 19.7°C St James's Park
17th: 31.9°C Lossiemouth
18th: 33.4°C Coningsby
19th: 18.6°C Gogerddan
20th: 17.4°C Swinderby, over 100mm falls in parts of the South East in 24 hours, far western areas receive several hundred
21st: 19.2°C St James's Park
22nd: 18.8°C East Malling
23rd: 23.7°C Manston
24th: 22.2°C Herstmonceux
25th: 18.4°C East Bergholt
26th: 34.5°C Heathrow
27th: 24.5°C Lingwood, another several hundred mm falls across the UK

Temperatures begin to normalise going into August, and despite the bizarre heat spikes, this July was overall one of the wettest on record and the coolest since the 80s, being even cooler than Julys 1991, 2009 and 2023.

Overall things turn much more settled in August, but remain dull and humid. Towards the second half, a warm spell breaks out over... Scotland? It's extremely unusual to see a Scotland-centric heatwave in August, but we live in strange times. Speaking of that, United States president Ye "Kanye" West has stated that it is now believed the malfunction was malicious. United Kingdom PM Gary Lineker agrees with these findings, and both the FBI and MI6 are investigating a malicious cause after ruling out an accidental malfunction.

"August 2032" heatwave and warm spell:

15th: 26.5°C Kinloss
16th: 25.9°C Lossiemouth
17th: 27.8°C Edinburgh
18th: 27.2°C Fyvie Castle
19th: 27.5°C Grangemouth Refinery
20th: 28.5°C Normanby Hall
21st: 29.4°C St James's Park
22nd: 28.1°C Inverailort
23rd: 30.6°C Pollok Country Park
24th: 32.3°C Edinburgh
25th: 32.9°C Dunbarney
26th: 31.2°C Loftus
27th: 28.2°C Coningsby

August 2032 not only had a highly unusual temperature distribution, it was also the driest month ever recorded with just 5.2mm nationally, with the east coast recording no measurable precipitation since late July. The previous holder was August 1947 with 9.9mm of precipitation. It was very dull in the South and sunny in the North and Scotland. Temperature were near or below average in England while Scotland recorded one of its hottest Augusts on record. It is generally considered to have been a very extreme version of August 2021. The contrast between July and August has left many feeling very whiplashed.

However, the most notable weather of the year was yet to come. After August, the soil was now very dry and meteorologists warned that this wouldn't bode well with the highly distorted weather patterns...

"September 2032" heatwave:

1st: 31.7°C St James's Park
2nd: 32.8°C Wisley
3rd: 34.7°C Kew Gardens
4th: 32.2°C St James's Park
5th: 34.2°C Wiggonholt
6th: 35.2°C Herstmonceux
7th: 35.9°C Faversham
8th: 31.4°C East Bergholt

And so, this strange summer has ended with a record-breaking September heatwave, finally beating the 1906 record. Temperatures returned to near-average after the heatwave, giving the impression that the "explosion summer" is over, but meteorologists warn that the weather is likely to remain disturbed for up to another 15 years. It is yet to be seen what may unfold next...

Shortly after the heatwave, a man who goes by the moniker "LetItSnow!" online was arrested, charged with the remote sabotage of the geoengineering project and crimes against humanity. He later pled guilty and was sentenced to 40 years and three months imprisonment. His accomplice and the person believed to be the mastermind, Cryoraptor, is currently believed to be on the run, and his whereabouts are unknown.

[LetItSnow!]

I am so glad we do not dictate the actual weather! 

[CryoraptorA303]

So far:

Summer 2024: A very hot summer with an extreme May heatwave that reached 34.6°C at Wellesbourne, Warwickshire before three more prolonged heatwaves over June and July. An overall annual maximum of 35.8°C at Coventry, West Midlands on July 23rd.

Summer 2025: Another very hot, humid and thundery summer with the first 20°C CET month on record, that being July. July 2025 is currently the hottest on record. Also saw a new all-time record as the heatwave continued into August, 40.4°C at Otterbourne and South Farnborough, Hampshire and East Malling and Faversham, Kent on the 10th and 11th respectively. Overall the hottest summer on record.

Summer 2026: Overall the second hottest summer on record behind 2025, but August is the hottest month ever recorded in the UK's history. Also the CET's first subtropical month with 22.1°C mean temperature. Recorded the current all-time record of 42.8°C at East Malling on August 10th and also broke 1976's record for longest stretch above 30.0°C, seeing such for 27 days which included two consecutive 40°C days and eight consecutive days above 36.6°C. By far the most exceptional heatwave ever observed in the UK.

Summer 2027: Completely unremarkable. An annual maximum of 33.7°C at Bedford on July 15th during a brief heat spike.

Summer 2028: Overall the most inoffensive summer in recent times, with very average conditions throughout. An annual maximum of 29.9°C at Coton-in-the-Elms, Derbyshire on July 10th, the lowest since 1993 however 2028 is rarely remembered as a cool summer as temperatures were simply very consistently average.

Summer 2029: The strangest "summer" period since 2011. An initial record-breaking May heatwave that saw 34.9°C at Manston, Kent, breaking the record set just five years ago at Wellesbourne and setting the first May annual maximum since 1944, 85 years ago. Summer itself was uneventful. In the aftermath, another unseasonable heatwave materialised, and saw 31.7°C at Wisley on the 2nd, breaking Gravesend's infamous 2011 record. A second 30°C day was also achieved at Nottingham and official heatwave conditions were held for a consecutive week. Certainly remembered as one of the strangest years on record.

Summer 2030: Summer itself was very cool and wet, not achieving 30°C once. However, more bizarre weather emerged with April experiencing the hottest spell on record, seeing 31.6°C at both Frittenden, Kent and Hull, East Yorkshire on the 13th. This also went on to be the annual maximum for the year, the first in April in known history. In November, another unseasonable spell emerged and saw temperatures exceeding summer averages for a consecutive week, with a peak temperature of 25.4°C at Gogerddan, Ceredigion on the 3rd, setting a new November record.

Summer 2031: A mixed summer with a hot spell encompassing two heatwaves over July, making it the sixth hottest on record behind 1983, but otherwise the summer was quite changeable. An annual maximum of 33.6°C at Wittering, Northamptonshire.

Summer 2032: A bizarre summer that was heavily disturbed by an explosive release of aerosols into the atmosphere. Overall very cool with the coolest June since the 1970s and the coolest July since the 1980s. August was much closer to average, and was even one of the hottest in Scotland. Overall July was extremely wet, but conversely August was the driest month ever recorded with virtually zero precipitation anywhere in the UK. September was the hottest month of the year, the only occasion aside from 1891, with an extreme heatwave in the first week that saw 35.9°C at Faversham, Kent on the 5th, breaking 1906's record after 126 years.

What will 2033 and beyond bring?

2001-2030 climate

As of 2030, London, Surrey, Cambridgeshire and Suffolk now see average July and August temperatures in excess of 24°C and approaching 25°C at hotspots. As such, the counties of Greater London, Surrey, Hertfordshire and Cambridgeshire now have heatwave thresholds of 29.0°C. A hot spell must now reach 29.0°C for at least three days to qualify as a heatwave.

Summers in order of average temperature (hottest to coolest):

Summer 2025
Summer 2026
Summer 2024
Summer 2031
Summer 2028
Summer 2027
Summer 2029
Summer 2030
Summer 2032

[andy989]

2018 was an amazing summer. It lasted so long and was so dry. 

My ideal fantasy heat wave (summer) scenario would be as follows.

Coming off the back of a wet winter so the water table is high and reservoirs are full. A spring like 2020. That was the best spring I’ve had (ignoring covid). Every day for what seemed like 2 months was wall to wall blue through April and may. It was like being abroad where you didn’t have to read the forecast, you could just go to bed knowing it was going to be another sunny day. Days spent in the garden with an evening bonfire looking at the stars. (Again ignoring covid, just speaking in weather terms)

This sunny weather but not too hot extends into the first week of June. After that we get our first heatwave of high 20’s low 30’s that lasts 2 weeks. This 2 week heat wave ends with 2 days of intense wide spread thunderstorms and a front, bringing a humid end. For a few days after there is crud cloud for the end of June. This rain does little to help the increasingly browning grass and cracking dirt. 

Starting July, the high takes hold again and we return to blue skies. Temps of around 25-27 for the first week. During this time the net weather forum sniffs out an intense heatwave. Rumblings of “really hot weather on the way” spread through friends and family. Shops are selling bbq’s and ice faster than they can stock them. It arrives and we have 3 weeks of fluctuating between 30 to extremes of 38 (not 38 everyday for 3 weeks) 

August starts with a hose pipe ban and temps still around 28-30 for the first week but much more humid now. Storms build almost every day for the first week. We have one final less severe plume mid august before a stormy breakdown to end august. 
 

(Pure fantasy, ignoring the impact on flora and fauna) 
 

 

[LetItSnow!]

Are we allowed more than one set up because my thinking cap is going off at the moment 

[CryoraptorA303]

 LetItSnow! Go for it

[LetItSnow!]

Okay, here’s my set up. I’ll allow your creative juices to flow BUT this time within the realm of normality and no bonkers extremes. The annual max is no higher than 31C.

April is a very convective month which really elevates the saying of April showers. One of the wettest Aprils ever recorded with conveyer belts of low pressure doing wonders for spring flowers. A cold snap with a decent snow event but also a warm spell with notable diurnal range of temperature. A real mixed bag and very thundery. 

May is high pressure dominated but with frequent interferences of spoiler lows at times which bring a mixture of cloudy easterlies and also thunderstorms, but conversely some very warm and sunny weather so something to please everyone. 

June shall be a rare dry but cool month with a high dominance of northerly airflows, but also thundery spells at times. No heatwaves.

July will be mixed. There will be one explosive episode where a hot airmass to our south meets and unusually cold airmass to our north which forms a bomb area of low pressure which sees one of our most intense thundery spells for years and a throwback to the golden days of storms of the ‘80s and ‘90s with damaging hail, lightning strikes and even some tornados (but since it’s a fantasy no one gets hurt). The month is changeable but with fairly high pressure at times so it’s not a washout by any means and fairly bright. 

August will be high pressure dominated and the warmest month of the summer. The days will be warm but the high pressure will be homegrown so the uppers aren’t exceptional and the nights end up cool. It won’t be bone dry though and there will be unsettled spells at times but mostly week. Towards the end the heights are shunted east by low pressure and we end the summer with a battleground which draws up hot southeasterlies and another thundery spell which commemorates the end of summer.

September will buck the recent trend of turning hot and dry for the return to school and will turn proper unsettled, windy and grotty and overall will be a very autumnal month with an exceptionally cool northerly plunge in the second half which sees a drastically early taste of winter. 

[CryoraptorA303]

 andy989 After the exceptionally dry Autumn of 2032 which was overall the third driest on record, and overall the driest August-November period on record, December turned abruptly humid and mild, and the UK experienced its wettest winter since 2023/24. In late March, conditions have abruptly become anticyclonic, and a dry, warm April lies ahead...

"April 2033" warm spell:

5th: 24.3°C Bude
6th: 25.4°C Usk
7th: 26.3°C Harwarden
8th: 25.8°C St James's Park
9th: 26.8°C Heathrow
10th: 27.6°C Santon Downham
11th: 23.5°C Bute Park
12th: 25.6°C Trawsgoed
13th: 26.2°C Inverailort
14th: 27.4°C Harwarden
15th: 28.8°C Gogerddan
16th: 28.2°C St James's Park
17th: 28.5°C Coningsby
18th: 22.6°C Weybourne

(Quick reminder that the 28°C doesn't count as a heatwave per 2001-2030 climatology)

A slightly cooler spell moved in over the rest of April, however temperatures remained high by night and overall April 2033 was the second-hottest on record behind just 2011. Netweather users are overall pleased with the month but are weary of a disordered summer as other hot Aprils have led to a cool and humid summer.

Some light showers hit the country but overall April was dry and the first drier-than-average month since the near-record dry November 2032. The anticyclone returns in early May...

"May 2033" warm spell and heatwaves:

9th: 24.2°C St James's Park
10th: 25.6°C Pershore
11th: 25.8°C Cambridge
12th: 25.3°C Gosport
13th: 26.3°C Hurn
14th: 26.7°C South Farnborough
15th: 29.3°C Pershore
16th: 29.6°C Nantwich, Wellesbourne
17th: 30.1°C Rhyl
18th: 26.5°C Wisley
19th: 23.3°C Herstmonceux
20th: 24.4°C St James's Park
21st: 25.7°C Coningsby
22nd: 26.4°C Treknow
23rd: 26.3°C Chivenor
24th: 29.8°C Ross-on-Wye
25th: 30.6°C Usk
26th: 31.8°C Porthmadog
27th: 27.7°C Faversham

Overall May 2033 was the hottest, driest and third-sunniest on record. At just 12.3mm of precipitation nationally, it is the third-driest month ever recorded, behind August 1947 and August 2032. Reactions on Netweather range from contentness to concern that summer will be wet and mild after such a hot spring.

However, after a very brief spell of humid conditions, the anticyclonic setup reappears, making June likely to continue the hot and dry conditions.

After a week of above average temperatures, a prolonged heatwave broke out:

"June 2033" heatwave:

7th: 29.3°C Heathrow
8th: 32.2°C Chertsey
9th: 32.0°C Kew Gardens
10th: 33.2°C Benson
11th: 31.1°C Rostherne
12th: 29.4°C Carlisle
13th: 30.3°C Bishopton
14th: 32.8°C Shawbury
15th: 32.5°C Porthmadog
16th: 33.7°C Porthmadog
17th: 32.9°C Harwarden
18th: 33.9°C Porthmadog
19th: 33.1°C Heathrow
20th: 33.3°C East Malling
21st: 29.2°C Lingwood

On the 21st, a cold front brings a thick band of thunderstorms to the nation, hitting central England the hardest. However, June is still overall drier than average, also being the driest on record along the east coast. After a very humid and uncomfortable end, it is also the hottest on record, defeating 2023 nationally by 0.3°C. Netweather reactions are generally positive, although a few of them, most notably Cryoraptor, are now complaining about the heat. Some are worried that a repeat of 2023 is coming, however all mid-term forecasts are generally pointing to an above average July.

The warm, dry and sunny conditions return on exactly July 1st. For the first week, above average conditions of 25-27°C are observed. A number of very hot and prolonged heatwave scenarios begin to materialise in forecasts, driving Netweather activity to the highest in several years.

"July 2033" heatwave:

8th: 30.8°C Santon Downham
9th: 33.5°C Kew Gardens
10th: 35.6°C Cambridge
11th: 34.9°C Pershore
12th: 36.9°C Crawley
13th: 32.6°C Port Talbot
14th: 34.5°C Porthmadog
15th: 35.8°C Porthmadog
16th: 38.1°C Porthmadog
17th: 38.6°C Benson
18th: 36.2°C Faversham
19th: 33.4°C Frittenden
20th: 35.7°C Crawley
21st: 36.4°C Crawley
22nd: 34.6°C Chivenor
23rd: 34.2°C Heathrow
24th: 35.5°C Writtle
25th: 38.7°C Cambridge (out of universe note: yes I know what you're thinking, this time it's way drier heat than 2019 and far more widespread)
26th: 35.5°C Faversham
27th: 35.4°C Faversham
28th: 30.0°C East Bergholt

By the time the heatwave breaks, the air has grown extremely humid and a massive thundery spell is brewing. However, the heat continues and July 2033 is the hottest on record, beating July 2025 and the second hottest month on record behind just August 2026. With a CET of 21.2°C, July 2033 is the third month to achieve >20°C in the ancient catalogue.

The heat continues into August...

"August 2033" humid spell and heatwave:

1st: 28.6°C Coton-in-the-Elms
2nd: 28.9°C Wiggonholt
3rd: 30.2°C Lingwood
4th: 29.5°C Shoreham
5th: 30.4°C Usk
6th: 28.7°C Santon Downham
7th: 28.3°C Chivenor
8th: 31.6°C Frittenden
9th: 33.5°C Herstmonceux
10th: 34.6°C Crawley
11th: 29.2°C Donna Nook
12th: 32.3°C South Farnborough
13th: 35.2°C Faversham
14th: 35.8°C Faversham
15th: 30.5°C St James's Park

And so, the hot spell finally gave up, and hilariously intense thunderstorms joyrided across the UK. Extreme hailstorms hit the south and the east coast. The thunderstorms were associated with a regime change and the rain poured down for days. Overall August 2033 was hot, but also the third wettest on record. A prolonged wet spell began and autumn was significantly wetter than average.

Overall, summer 2033 was the second hottest in the "Cryoraptor Meteorological Universe", behind 2025, and had the third highest annual maximum of 38.7°C at Cambridge on July 25th, which also oddly coincided with the 14th anniversary of the 2019 all-time record, behind Augusts 2026 and 2025. Overall it's the highest July temperature so far.

Summers in order of average temperature (hottest to coolest):

Summer 2025
Summer 2033
Summer 2026
Summer 2024
Summer 2031
Summer 2028
Summer 2027
Summer 2029
Summer 2030
Summer 2032

Edited March 6 by CryoraptorA303

[CryoraptorA303]

 LetItSnow! Since August 2033, the UK has seen a prolonged wet spell, without a single drier than average month. Meteorologists state that the explosion winter is still having a notable effect on the weather along with the accelerating climate change. After March is the least wet month since August, April becomes cyclonic again with a strong storm track punching straight through the British Isles. Mild, humid and extremely wet conditions predominate.

However, a brief northerly takes hold early in the month and delivers a cold spell that wouldn't be out of place in a cold January...

"April 2034" cold snap:

6th: 8.7°C Scilly, -6.3°C Aviemore, a few cm falls over Eastern England overnight
7th: 5.6°C Port Talbot, -11.4°C Kinlochew, ~10cm falls over Eastern England with up to 20cm in the Kent Weald and Eastern Pennines
8th: 3.3°C Gogerddan, -13.6°C Faversham
9th: 10.6°C St James's Park, -2.3°C Benson

The cold was rapidly replaced by mild and humid conditions once again, and the rapid snowmelt caused some localised flooding owing to the waterlogged soil.

In an unexpected twist, a warmer spell arrived and brought some temporary relief from the dull and wet misery.

"April 2034" warm spell:

22nd: 24.9°C St James's Park
23rd: 25.4°C High Beach
24th: 26.6°C Weybourne
25th: 25.2°C Coningsby
26th: 23.7°C East Park

As the warm spell dissipated, another round of heavy storms moved in. Overall April was the third wettest, but also the eleventh warmest on record.

May behaved more like September, with humid, warm conditions interspersed with windy rain.

"May 2034" warm spell:

13th: 23.5°C Bute Park
14th: 25.8°C Cambridge
15th: 28.8°C East Malling
16th: 27.3°C Wisley
17th: 27.8°C St James's Park
18th: 26.9°C Yeovilton
19th: 29.5°C Heathrow
20th: 26.2°C Faversham

Another round of thunderstorms moved in, although May was significantly less wet than the previous months, ending up 10% drier than average. Overall it was quite positively received by Netweather users due to the interesting weather.

June was a rare beast, being dry but also cooler than average with a dry northeasterly wind. Some western areas saw a warmer than average month, though Eastern and central areas were very dull, humid, windy but very dry due to the prevalence of very light North Sea showers over heavy storms. While unique, it is also hated by many Netweather users, especially Londoners, to whom the weather felt unreasonably April-like (out of universe note: remember by 2034 London and other parts of the South East and East Anglia are averaging at closer to July temperatures today by the second half of June).

July was more like May, with the UK often being on the battleground between high and low pressure. In one event, a very hot Spanish plume collided with a NWly cold front and produced ridiculously extreme thunderstorms for the second summer in the row. Hail the size of golf balls fell over some parts of the Midlands. Elsewhere tens or hundreds of millimetres fell in the space of hours, leading to extreme flash flooding, especially in the Thames basin. Otherwise the month was warm and humid, but experienced no heatwave conditions. 30.5°C was briefly reached at St James's Park on the 14th.

August was the warmest and most settled month of summer, seeing drier than average conditions and reminding many of August 2009. In this month we finally see a heatwave.

"August 2034" heatwave:

6th: 29.4°C St James's Park
7th: 29.7°C Heathrow
8th: 30.4°C Wisley
9th: 30.7°C Writtle
10th: 31.2°C Faversham
11th: 31.7°C East Malling
12th: 29.1°C Tibenham

Temperatures remained quite high, but daily lows were not all that impressive for the time of year due to the inability of this heatwave to draw hotter air from the south. Many Netweather users compared it to July 2013. The heat was very dry and was praised even by noted coldies like Cryoraptor.

At the end of the month, it looked like a September heatwave was coming, but instead a colder front breaks the height at late notice and leads to another round of thunderstorms. We did manage to see a very brief heatwave though:

Late "August 2034" heatwave:

27th: 29.2°C Brize Norton
28th: 30.3°C Faversham
29th: 29.6°C Manston

And so summer 2034 ended on an explosive note, seeing widespread thunderstorm activity, this time in a longitudinal belt, ravaging a huge area on its journey from Cornwall to Derbyshire to Norfolk and everywhere inbetween.

While summer 2034 was now over, our story doesn't end here. September was the sixth-coldest on record, the coldest in around 50 years. The month was marked by a persistent NWly delivering wet, cold conditions more suited to late October or perhaps even a milder November. Even more unusual, the wind turned northerly late in the month and shoved Arctic air deep into Europe.

"September 2034" cold snap:

26th: 13.4°C St James's Park, -2.6°C Altnaharra, non-elevated areas of Scotland receive their first September snow since the 80s, with a few areas having accumulations of 3-4cm

27th: 9.5°C Manston, -4.3°C Spadeadam, Scotland receives another 4-5cm of snow, the Pennines and adjacent areas of Cumbria and Northumberland see their first accumulating September snow likely since the 60s with accumulations of 2-5cm

28th: 10.6°C Port Talbot, -5.2°C Santon Downham, overnight a light snow cover of 2-3cm has fallen over even southeastern England, with the region waking up to its first September accumulation probably in 100 years or more. It quickly melts but such an event will not be forgotten so soon.

Meteorologists blame the explosion winter for September's cold snap and the overall chaotic weather of this year. Temperatures recovered into October and both October and November were warmer than September, making September 2034 the third coldest month of the year, behind January and December. Hilariously, February was actually slightly warmer. The month has been compared to December 2010 in terms of being such a cold anomaly despite climate change.

Overall, summer 2034 is the sixth-warmest summer in the "Cryoraptor Meteorological Universe" being ahead of 2028 thanks to the warm August but behind the "Maximum Trolling" summer of 2031. It's annual maximum of 31.7°C at East Malling on August 11th is below average for the series, with cooler summers than it achieving hotter heat spikes. It works out as slightly below 2001-2030 averages, but June is the coolest aside from 2012 in the whole dataset. Overall it is praised for its unusual, chaotic thundery outbreaks and the warm spell in August, however June is one of the most hated months of the whole 21st century aside from notorious stinkers like June 2012 and July 2023. September is remembered both fondly and begrudgingly for it's bizarre cold snap.

Summers from hottest to coolest in the CMU:

Summer 2025
Summer 2033
Summer 2026
Summer 2024
Summer 2031
Summer 2034
Summer 2028
Summer 2027
Summer 2029
Summer 2030
Summer 2032

 

Out of universe: As 10 years have now passed in-universe, should I consider opening some new stations? Give me some suggestions for new stations.

[CryoraptorA303]

Let's see if I can revive this by opening some new stations.

The new stations are:

Valentine's Park, Ilford
Hainault Forest, Ilford
Tudeley, Kent
Rainham Marsh, Havering
Salisbury, Wiltshire
Swindon, Wiltshire
Stevenage, Hertfordshire
Walthamstow Wetlands, Waltham Forest
Taunton, Somerset
Westbury, Wiltshire
Dursley, Gloucestershire
Uckfield, East Sussex
Beckenham, Bromley
Caterham, Surrey

Reinstated:

Greenwich Observatory, Greenwich
Gravesend Broadness, Kent
Cheltenham, Gloucestershire
Raunds, Northamptonshire
Moulton Park, Northamptonshire
Hampstead, Camden

Now request your heatwaves!

[Summer8906]

Three months from June to August. Never above 35C but always at least 21c, and average max around 25c. Regular short thundery interludes followed by quick rebuild of Azores high.

Edited March 11 by Summer8906

[Summerlover2006]

A period in July starting on the 2nd where 90 degrees Fahrenheit is recorded every day for 22 days straight peaking at 39 degrees Celsius on the 15th there is another very hot day on the 22nd with a high of 36 degrees Celsius. This heatwave not only breaks the record for consecutive days about 90 degrees it also is the first month with a cet above 20. June and august are less record breaking stopping this summer from being the hottest ever but there is a couple of hot days in June and august with a high of 32 degrees Celsius in June on the 24th and a high of 33 degrees Celsius in august on the 8th but apart from these days the rest of the summer is more average maybe a little above average.

[*Stormforce~beka*]

 Summer8906 Oh this would be my dream!