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Ditto:

Guilt-tripping people for liking any kind of weather is stupid. That goes for heat in summer and cold in winter. What’s the point of being a weather enthusiast if the only weather you’re allowed to enjoy is 20C and partly cloudy? Might as well take up knitting.

Coldest forecast since 2018.

iOS app now showing three consecutive days with highs of -1C

Potentially 4 ice days in a row showing up on the iOS weather app for Leeds. I’d call that a cold spell, assuming it materialises.

We had essentially nationwide white Christmases in 2009 & 2010. Anyone over the age of 18 (or thereabouts) should have experienced them (while also being old enough to actually remember them).

Couple more Stockholm photos

The winter of 2012/13 was the snowiest I’ve experienced. I was measuring snowfall that winter and I think we had 90cm in total. January and March were very snowy but February had a decent fall mid-month too.

The snow in Stockholm looks pretty substantial…

August 2022 at the Leeds Uni weather station had a mean of 19.0C - which is warmer than both August 1997 and August 1995 at the old Leeds Weather Centre. Obviously not official though. At Leeming in North Yorkshire, August 2022 was warmer than August 1997, and just 0.1C cooler than August 1995. I’m sure a few stations across the UK had their warmest August on record.

Max/min temps so far here for September: 23/14 23/14 24/16 24/15 25/15 Continuing where August left off.

It’s a joke that they don’t get the heat England does but they get all the storms.

Saw some lightning today for the first time this year! A thunderstorm developed to my east and then trundled along towards Selby. Alas, that’s all the action we’ve had this year. The wait for a storm goes on.

It’s just North Sea crud. It’s burnt off now though.

We could end up exceeding 30C here for 5 consecutive days, from Wednesday to Sunday. Pretty good going. Nights are relatively cool too - falling down to 12/13C.

Yeah, the grass turned green again very quickly here after we had 20mm of rain in the final 10 days of July. Yorkshire Water are still discussing the possibility of a hosepipe ban though - no surprise given how low reservoirs are. There’s no rain in the forecast at all here now so we’ll see if the grass starts turning yellow again. GFS shows 0mm between now and the 15th, so a very dry first half of August looks likely.

The weather over the past week has been poor really - certainly worse than average. It’s rained almost every day, albeit small amounts. Very little sunshine too. Temperatures have been average, maybe slightly above - but that’s really about it. I really didn’t expect the weather to deteriorate this much after the heatwave. I think this July will be like July 2010 - significantly better in the SE than everywhere else, and basically the opposite of last July which was significantly worse in the SE and better everywhere else. It’s certainly no July 2013 or July 2018.

I think you’re reading into it too much.

Doncaster reports rounded figures, so it could have been anywhere between 39.5C and 40.4C. Topcliffe, north of York, recorded 39.6C, so there’s nothing anomalous about Bramham’s figure. The area between Leeds and York is frequently the hottest part of Yorkshire during heatwaves so it’s nothing out of the ordinary.

Possible that one of the manual stations recorded 41c or close to it. Won’t find out until tomorrow though.

Provisional Yorkshire record of 39.6C at Bramham just outside Leeds, beating the previous Yorkshire record of 36.7C, recorded at… Bramham on Monday.

Netweather forecast showing 36C tomorrow and 40C on Tuesday. In fact, by 10m Tuesday we’re forecast to be hotter than Monday’s max temperature, which would already be a record here. As for today, a high of 31C. Currently 27C.

Looks increasingly possible that somewhere in the East Midlands or Yorkshire (eg Doncaster) will end up breaking the UK record, at least according to the GFS. Hottest temperatures on Tuesday consistently north of London and east of Birmingham, running up to York. A few 42s but widely 40-41.

I suspect many parents will keep their kids home anyway regardless of what the schools say

July 2020 completely escaped me. But yes, such temperatures are very rare in the UK - and when they do occur they’re usually very localised, never widespread. You can’t downplay the significance of widespread high 30s in England - that has never happened before.