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That's 8pm too (7pm for UK?), So a good 2 or 3 hours after peak maximums.

This summer for the cool fans has been the equivalent of 1963 for a snow fan. Endless wet cold craap for 2 and a half months except for 6 days in August and 1 day in July. So it's just annoying that there is finally a day I can be outside comfortably for the first time in 30 days and the thread is full of complainers.

What isn't nice is spending an entire month of summer indoors because it is either too cold or wet. How can any fan of outdoor-activity-wrecking weather complain after the absolute "beauty" you have had this summer save for 4 days in June, 1 day in July and 6 days in August? Finally sat outside in the garden today for the first time in an entire month.

Watch those Greenland Highs disappear again in winter. Proper peetake that they can often screw us over in both winter and summer;

32C now, this wasn't in the forecast. When the wind dies down you can really feel it and it becomes very uncomfortable.

It was a tropical night here with a minimum of 20C, clear skies now and already 26C.

Anyone living about 20 miles west of Burton is in for a treat. I can see it from here a flash per second at the moment.

Peaked at 31C. After the early cloud cleared it was clear all day. Arguably the best day of the summer so far.

I know it's pretty tough at night but it was nice to be able to go for a walk at 10pm last night in t-shirt and shorts and not feel cold. Can count on one hand the amount of times I've been able to do that in the UK. With foreign holidays out of the question this summer I don't mind the warm nights this year. As for today It's only 28C but feels very hot out there with the high humidity.

This is turning out to be the best day so far, much better than the Friday cloudfest. Tiny bit of cloud in the morning but has been clear since. 27C but feels warmer with the increased humidity.

Yet again it's UKMO against everyone else, would really like some support from the ECM later.

Much needed UKMO giving a realistic route back into settled weather, it was looking bleak after Wednesday this morning.

Even the GFS 6 hours ago didn't pick up on the central England rain today.

Anyone else think forecasters have handled this spell terribly. They seem to have massively underestimated these decaying fronts. All week they have been saying Friday will be incredible for England away from northwest coasts yet we now have a front in the middle of the country. Is it too much to ask them to pick up on these things the day before it happens?

Where have these showers come from. Is it too much to ask for just one sunny day this pathetic summer?

Heathrow not even at 30C yet. Will be lucky to hit 33C today, never mind go for records.

Honestly hope we don't get the temperatures being predicted in the model thread right now, that would be deadly. I wouldn't be concerned about a 1 day heatwave delivering 40 then quickly being pushed away (last Friday would have been perfect), but an entire week of heatwave temperatures with a 40C day would kill people. Looking at high teens or low twenties night time temperatures too, which would average our temperatures at 25-30C, that is horrific in a country without air con in most homes. I've only done that once before in Cyprus (typical night time temp is 24C). It took me hours to fall asleep and when I did I only managed 3 or 4 hours

Really? I would think since 4th July families and friends from different households meeting indoors in houses and pubs all the time due to the disgraceful weather would be the biggest cause, not people meeting outside. Anything that brings people outside is good news imo. More weather related, that UKMO 144h chart is the perfect summer chart for me. Not record-breaking heat, but high twenties/low thirties with very low humidity. Would take that instead of a transient plume.

Already 31C. Actually pretty scary how easy it is to get close to record breaking heat these days. Just need a 1 day pump of air from the continent. I swear it used to take four or five days of build up before.

Met office have had a shocker this year with their 30 day forecasts. Warm and settled weather has been 2 weeks away for 3 months now according to them.

Stubborn cloud that wasn't in the forecast refuses to go away. Just end this summer already.

Nice summer's day here, first one in about 3 weeks. 23 mostly sunny.

I swear the graph has looked like this for the last 3 months.

Well i wi be using this thread as whatever we have now does not deserve to be called summer.

Total of 7 days that have been dry, sunny with average or above average temperatures. That is absolutey pathetic.