Relativistic

The Netweather tracker currently has Benson at -13°C. Would beat England's previous low if correct.

January 2013 had a run of eight days on both the legacy and current values. Before that you're looking at December 2010 for a longer run. Just to reiterate what others have already said in the December CET thread, yesterday's mean was -2.0C, thus securing our five-day run (AFAIK the current values aren't subject to corrections).

Four consecutive subzero means now (-1.1, -0.8, -0.5, -1.5). Could potentially get another six, thus giving a healthy run of ten days.

The polar anti-vortex

Yesterday was our first subzero mean. The official mean hasn't yet been released, but the min was -5.1°C and the max 3.0°C, so -1.0°C or -1.1°C. Could get a decent run out of this.

CET min of -5.1°C, imagine that's a top 5 for the date and possibly a top 3 behind 1879 and 2010. The min and max today would have the mean below zero. Should be the start of a decent run.

Completely agree. There's plenty to enjoy about crisp, cold, frosty days. I'll be happy regardless of whether or not there's any snow.

November confirmed as 9.2C: https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/hadobs/hadcet/data/meantemp_monthly_totals.txt

Christ, 1938 was a freak show.

Perhaps I'll be proven wrong, but I can't help but feel that at some point, perhaps in the next decade, we will see a brutal shot of November cold.. PV formation heading into late Autumn seems to be more and more perturbed as the years go on due to ever-increasing excess heat post-Summer*, whilst cold can still build further north as the polar night falls. Our default position in these setups is undoubtedly in mild sectors, but at some point one of these crazy perturbations has to become reality? Thoughts? *Please let me know if this is a recency bias!

Could be some frost this week.

Indeed... with some exceptions maxima have been in the 17-22C range this summer. It had been very dry up until recently, though.

Feeling pretty sombre about all this to be completely honest.

*Surreal and alarming. The climate's fooked.

. . . Jesus Christ.

Not confirmed yet, still provisional. Not to say the record won't go anyway.

If memory serves me correctly, Heathrow hit 34C at 11am on the 1st July 2015. Looks like we're a touch ahead of that already. Mid-afternoon cloudcover prevented the reading that day from reaching 37C but this is unlikely to happen today.

Older folk in my family know it better than they know the Celsius scale.

When it's done this in the past it tends to be something like a 28C becoming a 32C. I don't think we can reasonably expect the same to be true when temperatures are widely projected to be in the high 30s as such temperatures becomes much harder to sustain and there's more scope for things to 'go wrong'.

It's possible someone in charge was on leave. Besides, delays of several days used to happen with the legacy data, too.

There won't be as end-of-month corrections are a thing of the past. As Reef pointed out, finalised daily data are posted on the fly now.

Re adjustments at month's end, I notice now that they no longer have separate data for 'daily data to date' and 'daily data to date (estimated values)', which suggests the current tracker is final.

June's actually the only month that has struggled to record a very high mean since the 70s.

Yes, this is particularly annoying

Great list. Worth pointing out that the latest was 2013 and not 2021.