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CryoraptorA303

Posted
  • Location: Kent, unfortunately
  • Weather Preferences: Cold, snowy winters, warm, early spring, cool, gentle summer, stormy autumn
  • Location: Kent, unfortunately
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Posted (edited)
32 minutes ago, Capser said:

This sounds like a fun idea, I'll go with late July 1990.

There was no heatwave in late July 1990. I'll go with the safe assumption that you mean August 1990?

I'll reserve August 1990 for you in the assumption this is what you mean.

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rwtwm Enthusiast

rwtwm

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  • Location: East London
  • Location: East London
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I'll go for the first non summer entry. 

Sept 2023.

I wasn't even in the country for this so I've no idea what it was like. Looking forward to finding out.

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CryoraptorA303 Rising Star

CryoraptorA303

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  • Location: Kent, unfortunately
  • Weather Preferences: Cold, snowy winters, warm, early spring, cool, gentle summer, stormy autumn
  • Location: Kent, unfortunately
  • Author
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September 2023 has entered the competition, nominated by rwtwm! September 2023 was an absolute beast even by the standards of true summer. Despite being a September heatwave I suspect it will be expected to go quite far by many.

Current entrants:

August 2003 (Summer8906)

August 2020 (LetItSnow)

July 2022 (Summer of 95)

July 2013 (daveinSB)

July 2006 (Row w)

July 2021 (matty40s)

June/July 1976 (Metwatch)

September 2023 (rwtwm)

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CryoraptorA303 Rising Star

CryoraptorA303

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  • Location: Kent, unfortunately
  • Weather Preferences: Cold, snowy winters, warm, early spring, cool, gentle summer, stormy autumn
  • Location: Kent, unfortunately
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So we're now up to eight heatwaves. I can think of many more to be nominated yet! We probably want at least 16 entries before we can begin the tournament 🥳

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SummerShower Community Regular

SummerShower

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  • Location: Basingstoke
  • Weather Preferences: In summer, a decent thunderstorm, and hot weather. In winter, snow or gale
  • Location: Basingstoke
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I'll go for the one in 2nd week of August 2022 please.

Thank you

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CryoraptorA303

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  • Location: Kent, unfortunately
  • Weather Preferences: Cold, snowy winters, warm, early spring, cool, gentle summer, stormy autumn
  • Location: Kent, unfortunately
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August 2022 and August/September 1906 have entered the competition, nominated by SummerShower and alexisj9 respectively!

Current entrants:

August 2003 (Summer8906)

August 2020 (LetItSnow)

July 2022 (Summer of 95)

July 2013 (daveinSB)

July 2006 (Row w)

July 2021 (matty40s)

June/July 1976 (Metwatch)

September 2023 (rwtwm)

August 2022 (SummerShower)

August/September 1906 (alexisj9)

Assuming @Capser nominates August 1990, we are now at 11 heatwaves! I think some more Junes should be nominated, but I'm just the host... 🤔

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Capser

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  • Location: London
  • Weather Preferences: cold snowy winters, windy autumns
  • Location: London
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2 hours ago, CryoraptorA303 said:

There was no heatwave in late July 1990. I'll go with the safe assumption that you mean August 1990?

I'll reserve August 1990 for you in the assumption this is what you mean.

Yeah sorry, I meant August! got a bit mixed up haha.

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CryoraptorA303

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  • Location: Kent, unfortunately
  • Weather Preferences: Cold, snowy winters, warm, early spring, cool, gentle summer, stormy autumn
  • Location: Kent, unfortunately
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1 minute ago, Harry's House said:

How about July and August 1911?

As July and August 1911 are two distinct heatwaves, they will have to be nominated separately. Which one would you like to nominate?

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Freeze Seasoned

Freeze

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  • Location: Shoreham, West Sussex
  • Weather Preferences: T storms, severe gales, heat and sun, cold and snow
  • Location: Shoreham, West Sussex
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Let's try july 1983 😁

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CryoraptorA303

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  • Location: Kent, unfortunately
  • Weather Preferences: Cold, snowy winters, warm, early spring, cool, gentle summer, stormy autumn
  • Location: Kent, unfortunately
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July 1983 has entered the competition, nominated by Freeze!

Current entrants:

August 2003 (Summer8906)

August 2020 (LetItSnow)

July 2022 (Summer of 95)

July 2013 (daveinSB)

July 2006 (Row w)

July 2021 (matty40s)

June/July 1976 (Metwatch)

September 2023 (rwtwm)

August 2022 (SummerShower)

August/September 1906 (alexisj9)

July 1983 (Freeze)

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CryoraptorA303

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  • Location: Kent, unfortunately
  • Weather Preferences: Cold, snowy winters, warm, early spring, cool, gentle summer, stormy autumn
  • Location: Kent, unfortunately
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13 minutes ago, Capser said:

Yeah sorry, I meant August! got a bit mixed up haha.

No problem!

August 1990 will now enter the competition, nominated by Capser!

Current entrants:

August 2003 (Summer8906)

August 2020 (LetItSnow)

July 2022 (Summer of 95)

July 2013 (daveinSB)

July 2006 (Row w)

July 2021 (matty40s)

June/July 1976 (Metwatch)

September 2023 (rwtwm)

August 2022 (SummerShower)

August/September 1906 (alexisj9)

July 1983 (Freeze)

August 1990 (Capser)

That now makes 12 heatwaves, with August 1911 I'm sure on the cusp of being nominated! Let's keep finding more heatwaves to nominate 🥳 I can think of three very notable ones that haven't been nominated yet...

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CryoraptorA303

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  • Location: Kent, unfortunately
  • Weather Preferences: Cold, snowy winters, warm, early spring, cool, gentle summer, stormy autumn
  • Location: Kent, unfortunately
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August 1997 has entered the competition, nominated by hillbilly!

Current entrants:

August 2003 (Summer8906)

August 2020 (LetItSnow)

July 2022 (Summer of 95)

July 2013 (daveinSB)

July 2006 (Row w)

July 2021 (matty40s)

June/July 1976 (Metwatch)

September 2023 (rwtwm)

August 2022 (SummerShower)

August/September 1906 (alexisj9)

July 1983 (Freeze)

August 1990 (Capser)

August 1997 (hillbilly)

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CryoraptorA303

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  • Location: Kent, unfortunately
  • Weather Preferences: Cold, snowy winters, warm, early spring, cool, gentle summer, stormy autumn
  • Location: Kent, unfortunately
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1 minute ago, Tidal Wave said:

April 2003 I believe was an impressive warm spell?

Unfortunately entrants must be between May and September. Heatwaves in late September that just spilled over into October may be considered. I don't think the opposite case has ever occurred.

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Harry's House

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  • Location: Hamstreet Kent, recently of Pagham nr Bognor Regis
  • Location: Hamstreet Kent, recently of Pagham nr Bognor Regis
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43 minutes ago, CryoraptorA303 said:

As July and August 1911 are two distinct heatwaves, they will have to be nominated separately. Which one would you like to nominate?

I'll go for August 1911. That had the record high temperature at that time.

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CryoraptorA303

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  • Location: Kent, unfortunately
  • Weather Preferences: Cold, snowy winters, warm, early spring, cool, gentle summer, stormy autumn
  • Location: Kent, unfortunately
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Just now, Harry's House said:

I'll go for August 1911. That had the record high temperature at that time.

As I suspected 😄

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CryoraptorA303

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  • Location: Kent, unfortunately
  • Weather Preferences: Cold, snowy winters, warm, early spring, cool, gentle summer, stormy autumn
  • Location: Kent, unfortunately
  • Author
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August 1911 has now entered the competition, nominated by Harry's House!

Current entrants:

August 2003 (Summer8906)

August 2020 (LetItSnow)

July 2022 (Summer of 95)

July 2013 (daveinSB)

July 2006 (Row w)

July 2021 (matty40s)

June/July 1976 (Metwatch)

September 2023 (rwtwm)

August 2022 (SummerShower)

August/September 1906 (alexisj9)

July 1983 (Freeze)

August 1990 (Capser)

August 1997 (hillbilly)

August 1911 (Harry's House)

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CryoraptorA303

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  • Location: Kent, unfortunately
  • Weather Preferences: Cold, snowy winters, warm, early spring, cool, gentle summer, stormy autumn
  • Location: Kent, unfortunately
  • Author
Posted (edited)

August 1995 has entered the competition, nominated AderynCoch! I was expecting this to be one of the first entrants! I wonder if August 1995 is a potential finalist?

Current entrants:

August 2003 (Summer8906)

August 2020 (LetItSnow)

July 2022 (Summer of 95)

July 2013 (daveinSB)

July 2006 (Row w)

July 2021 (matty40s)

June/July 1976 (Metwatch)

September 2023 (rwtwm)

August 2022 (SummerShower)

August/September 1906 (alexisj9)

July 1983 (Freeze)

August 1990 (Capser)

August 1997 (hillbilly)

August 1911 (Harry's House)

August 1995 (AderynCoch)

It looks like we have most of the major Augusts now. I can think of a few more Julys to be nominated, and quite a few Junes... Also waiting on the first May entrant...

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Sun Chaser Community Regular

Sun Chaser

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  • Location: Plymouth
  • Weather Preferences: Sunny, dry and preferably hot. Snow is nice in the winter
  • Location: Plymouth
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Obviously July 2018 needs to be here!

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MP-R

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  • Location: Cleeve, North Somerset
  • Weather Preferences: Continental winters & summers.
  • Location: Cleeve, North Somerset
Posted (edited)

Apologies if it's been posted but I'll go for August 1947. 

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CryoraptorA303

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  • Location: Kent, unfortunately
  • Weather Preferences: Cold, snowy winters, warm, early spring, cool, gentle summer, stormy autumn
  • Location: Kent, unfortunately
  • Author
Posted (edited)

July 2018 is a difficult one. On the one hand, the heatwave is almost continuous from June 24th. On the other hand, it has three separate breaks, all one day each before 28.0C+ resumes. I'm not sure I can consider the whole event as a single heatwave and apply the exception three separate times... Should June/July 2018 and late July 2018 remain as temporally distinct, or should the exception be applied? If we apply the exception then the June/July 2018 heatwave will be a serious heavyweight.

July 2019 and August 1947 have entered the competition, sponsored by R Alto and MP-R respectively!

Current entrants:

August 2003 (Summer8906)

August 2020 (LetItSnow)

July 2022 (Summer of 95)

July 2013 (daveinSB)

July 2006 (Row w)

July 2021 (matty40s)

June/July 1976 (Metwatch)

September 2023 (rwtwm)

August 2022 (SummerShower)

August/September 1906 (alexisj9)

July 1983 (Freeze)

August 1990 (Capser)

August 1997 (hillbilly)

August 1911 (Harry's House)

August 1995 (AderynCoch)

July 2019 (R Alto)

August 1947 (MP-R)

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