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Temp dropped to -5.6c early this morning, still mainly clear skies, -2.2c.

Shovel's ready.

Still sweet FA of much falling here, just a box standard cold snap at the moment.

Quite amusing really, hardly a flake (or drop!) is set to fall over the central area of the country during the latest GFS's run of 16 days.

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Not expecting anything too dramatic falling here - possibly the temp, not from direct a northerly anyway.

Something may be growing to the south of here, don't want to tempt fate, but worth keeping one eye it.

Sky just looks, just i dunno too dirty for any heat to penetrate to the surface for any heating.

Seems to be dying a death as anything gets close here.

Nothing here, all day, sky starting to break up now. Can see on the countrywide radar, hefty rainfall over SW England at the moment, though that is nigh on 200 miles SW of my location.

Looks like it's getting squeezed like a teabag before it reaches anywhere near.

No sign of that 4 day calamitous breakdown in our heatwave yet, as per various media outputs. Fairly overcast here, but still warm, temp at 23.8C, humidity at around 50%.

Wonderful satellite image of the British Isles & Europe:- MSG-1200-EUR.jpg (2560×1920) (fvalk.com)

Anyone noticed that the lightning strikes are increasing and getting closer here, but may well be too far south to hear or see anything.

Swing in wind direction to a more west south-westerly, temp fell - not a lot, but dropped by 1C in last 45 minutes.

Same as yesterday now - 36.3C, can see high cloud drifting in from the S/SW now.

33.5C, here over North Wolves.

Selected priority, like national forecast maps a huge area of land - known as The Midlands, tends to be missing or omitted.

Snap, exactly the same here.

Still temp still creeping up, at 36.3C, and humidity very low at 25%.

33.6C creeping up with partial cloud cover, very warm, but forget records here.

Haven't broken 28C yet, going to be warm/hot, not expecting 38C at the moment. Some lumpy clouds forming to the west moving eastward as well now.

No records gonna be set here, still "only" 26.8C, never likely to really.

Temp over 28C at the moment in N Wolves, no sun, sky bright at times, had a few very brief falls of "rain", but disappears within minutes., odd setup , humidity not especially high either, may (or not!) a be a sign of what to expect in 5/6 or 7 days time.

Error on day, should be18th.