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A shower has popped up between Harrogat and York.

Upgrade on the GFS 18z methinks - shows 29-30C on Weds & Thurs for here again, and above 25C on every day. Even Scotland looks pleasantly warm.

Seems Bramham near Leeds was the UK hotspot today at 29.2C.

I've only been browsing this forum until recently but I have to agree that certain members have a very hypocritical attitude - enjoying lecturing people about the negatives of cold, snowy winters, cool wet summers, but don't like it when people dare mention the negatives of warm, dry summers - and there are negatives, as much as I enjoy the warmth. All weather types have good points and bad points - some of the bad points of warm, sunny weather have manifested already, such as idiot boy racers and lots of litter in parks. People go crazy during this weather, some just don't know how to behave and end up making life uncomfortable for the rest of us by acting like such idiots. Basically, we are hopeless at dealing with adverse weather, even if the deviation from the average is only slight - too wet, dry, cold, hot - we can't keep on complaining about the weather every time it isn't exactly average, the weather has to deviate occasionally - we need to deal with it better. Going from severe floods to drought and vice versa in less than a year (a happened from 2011 to 2012) is really pathetic and should not happen.

29C at Church Fenton today. Feels stuffy - but at least a breeze has developed. An uncomfortable night to come.. and all of this after a chilly July night, if the hourly obs are anything to go by the temperature fell below 9C this morning, it was also misty and damp when I woke up at 6am. I love big diurnal ranges.

Well, looks like no 30C today unfortunately due to an area of high cloud earlier suppressing temperatures slightly.

Phew.. a bit hot. Both our local weather and the national weather mentioned 30C for N England on Friday.

Good post Roger.. just need that high to move itself east a bit and it'd be something truly exceptional I bet.

Only briefly though. Would be better to get a high without it slipping further west over time, meaning a lot of us get cool easterly winds and low cloud.

It seems to be an impossible task to get that high to be directly centred over the UK this summer - always to the west. I won't be 100% pleased until we get that high centred over us, as opposed to the west of Ireland.

Another belter of a run this morning - better than the 18z in fact! Friday Saturday Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday

The 18z is just WOW - the heat just gets upgraded, extended and extensive with each run - even the cooler day of Tuesday here now has 26C, possibly 27C projected by GFS, with all days at 25C or above so far. 30C in the South too on multiple days! Perhaps we are on the cusp of something special? I couldn't believe it before but now I am genuinely excited. And now widespread 29-30C on Wednesday, extending into northern England!

This is a big source of confusion as I'm not sure which side of the boundary I am located - of course I can easily look at the charts and come to a conclusion myself, but terms like 'North', 'South', 'NW' and 'SE' are ambiguous and not well-defined, especially when talking a UK-wide context, not just an England context. I presume by 'south', people mean virtually all of England and Wales, and by N, they mean Scotland, N Ireland and perhaps the far north of England, as looking at the temperature projection charts from GFS, most of England looks warm, very warm and occasionally hot.

I'd say maximums here would be around (based on GFS): Thu 24CFri 30CSat 27CSun 26CMon 26CTue 23C Wed 25C Each run extends the warm spell.

I am expecting the first 30C of the year on Friday somewhere in the Vale of York - or am I just hoping!

Yeah, its been humid up here, one day here had a temperature of 26C with a dew of 20C, yesterday, typically values were temps of 27-28C and dews of 17-18C. Humidity levels almost always above 50%.

Feels cold today! But better for garden work that's for sure. And don't worry Bottesford - the outlook is better for us in the East anyway (i.e normality), especially Friday onwards with temps of 24 - 30C

30C looks more than possible in Yorkshire on Friday - even though our local BBC weather has 27 - 28C, our local weather presenter (and one of the best meteorologists in the UK I am certain) Paul Hudson, said that those estimates are VERY conservative and Friday could be the warmest day of the year, until Saturday when the south steals the limelight. Hope we get our first 30C since 2011!

BBC weather shows NW England with sunny spells as opposed to full-on overcast.

July 2008 spell highs: 25C 23C 27C 27C 28C 25C 25C 26C 22C June/early July 2009 spell highs: 23C 24C 26C 29C 26C June/early July 2010 spell highs: 25C 26C 24C 23C 23C 26C 28C 26C 23C 25C 25C 25C Sept/Oct 2011 spell highs: 24C 26C 28C 29C 29C 22C 26C May 2012 spell highs: 23C 25C 26C 23C 23C 24C 26C

Definitely not the best since 2006 here either - definitely many similar and better spells here since then, and certainly many higher temperatures recorded such as 29.0C in October 2011, 31C in June 2011, and so on.

Britain has a tepid climate all year - what we consider cold is laughable in Sweden and what we consider hot would be a cool summers day in Andalusia. I guess that is one of our climate's biggest attributes - it is actually perfect for human habitation and agriculture.

Not the case with me - everyone is moaning about how 'hot' it is and how 'we just don't get it like we did when I was a kid' (referring to 1976). I want to tell them that summers between 1989 and 2006 were routinely above average and very warm, but alas I refrained.. To be fair, the sun does feel very toasty, and after such a cold start, it's easy to understand why we're all going mad over a very typical warm spell, and some people just can't handle it - especially with these humidity levels which are currently higher than in 2006, which was a dry heat mostly (in my back yard anyway).

Where?

Looks like the hotspot today was Linton-on-Ouse at 28.7C.