What heatwave would you like to see? [REQUEST]

[CryoraptorA303]

I've spent quite a while making heatwave scenarios. Tell me what kind of heatwave you'd like to see, what month, what kind of temperatures, any kind of background information, etc. etc. and I'll make you a heatwave scenario.

[BlueSkies_do_I_see]

I would like to see prolonged heat rather than a heatwave that ends with a huge storm. If I could live only one summer over again it would undoubtedly be 2018. That summer seemed to start in May!

Edited March 4 by BlueSkies_do_I_see

[lassie23]

One that never turns up

[Dami]

none. Nice 23c please, light breeze.

[lassie23]

 Dami sounds like typical bedfordian climate

[Dami]

 lassie23 maybe. 

[lassie23]

 Dami i've never seen a tanned bedfordian

[Dami]

 lassie23 you have never been to beddy, lass, all i'm sayin.

Edited March 4 by Dami

[lassie23]

 Dami i'm in bed now

[Dami]

 lassie23 TMI.

[SummerShower]

June/July 1976, extended by 1 week.  Within this though a few July 2006 thundery breakdowns, and 1 of the weeks to ramp up the heat and humidity to August 2020/July 2019 levels, but then with 40.4C at least on one day.  A 30.0C+ CET day, and the month it occurs in being a 20C+

[CryoraptorA303]

 BlueSkies_do_I_see A 2018 style heatwaves? Done!

May heatwave threshold will be 25.0°C.

"May 2024" heatwave:

18th: 25.4°C Pershore
19th: 26.9°C Yeovilton
20th: 25.6°C Kew Gardens
21st: 27.6°C Usk
22nd: 28.9°C Heathrow
23rd: 27.3°C Benson
24th: 30.6°C Wiggonholt
25th: 34.6°C Wellesbourne
26th: 31.3°C Coningsby
27th: 26.6°C Weybourne
28th: 26.2°C Lossiemouth

Summer threshold will be 28.0°C.

"June 2024" heatwave:

7th: 28.3°C Chivenor
8th: 30.7°C Cirencester
9th: 29.6°C Heathrow
10th: 31.4°C Nantwich
11th: 32.8°C Porthmadog
12th: 34.2°C Porthmadog
13th: 34.4°C Gogerddan
14th: 33.8°C Harwarden
15th: 32.7°C Pershore
16th: 32.3°C Cambridge
17th: 28.2°C Castlederg
18th: 29.1°C Glasgow Pollok Country Park
19th: 29.4°C Kew Gardens
20th: 30.4°C Usk
21st: 33.5°C Wiggonholt
22nd: 32.4°C Benson
23rd: 28.6°C Coton-in-the-Elms
24th: 29.2°C Cromer

Early "July 2024" heatwave:

3rd: 30.9°C Inverailort
4th: 32.9°C Lossiemouth
5th: 32.6°C Treknow
6th: 31.6°C Wisley
7th: 29.5°C Shoreham Airport
8th: 31.2°C Herstmonceux
9th: 32.5°C Faversham

Late "July 2024" heatwave:

16th: 31.7°C Wisley
17th: 33.8°C Hartpury College
18th: 34.8°C Hereford
19th: 32.4°C Pershore
20th: 32.2°C Heathrow
21st: 34.5°C Cambridge
22nd: 35.2°C Wellesbourne
23rd: 35.8°C Coventry
24th: 35.4°C Coventry
25th: 34.9°C Wellesbourne
26th: 35.6°C Coventry
27th: 34.7°C Santon Downham
28th: 32.1°C Faversham
29th: 28.5°C East Bergholt

Edited March 4 by CryoraptorA303

[CryoraptorA303]

 SummerShower Yikes, that sounds like one nasty heatwave.

"July/August 2025" heatwave:

10th: 28.6°C Writtle
11th: 30.3°C Woburn
12th: 32.6°C Wiggonholt
13th: 32.5°C Otterbourne
14th: 32.9°C Fontmell Magna
15th: 34.6°C Benson
16th: 36.3°C Wisley
17th: 31.4°C Blackpool
18th: 32.4°C Trawsgoed
19th: 34.8°C Cambridge
20th: 34.5°C Wittering
21st: 35.9°C High Beach
22nd: 36.2°C Writtle
23rd: 36.4°C Cavendish
24th: 28.7°C Donna Nook, Loftus
25th: 34.3°C Crawley
26th: 30.6°C Milford Conservancy Board
27th: 33.4°C Alice Holt Lodge
28th: 35.5°C Heathrow, Kew Gardens, Pershore, Coningsby
29th: 38.8°C Wellesbourne, Wiggonholt, Otterbourne, Cambridge, Bramham (30.6°C mean CET)
30th: 35.7°C Faversham
31st: 33.8°C Lingwood
1st: 30.5°C Bude, Virginstow
2nd: 34.5°C Wisley
3rd: 36.7°C Frittenden
4th: 38.1°C Wisley
5th: 37.5°C Heathrow
6th: 36.0°C Herstmonceux
7th: 35.2°C Frittenden, Wiggonholt
8th: 36.9°C Wiggonholt
9th: 37.4°C Otterbourne
10th: 40.4°C South Farnborough, Otterbourne
11th: 40.4°C Faversham, East Malling, Cavendish
12th: 36.8°C Faversham
13th: 32.8°C Tibenham
14th: 29.3°C Wiggonholt
15th: 31.6°C East Malling, Otterbourne
16th: 28.1°C Faversham

[SollyOlly]

 BlueSkies_do_I_see Interesting! I'm not a great fan of heat, but 2018 was a summer that I do actually recall with some fondness...my memory might be playing tricks, but I seem to recall that although it was a long period of sunny and warm/ 'hot', it was more of a pleasant, tolerable weather set up rather than these bonkers heat plumes that we seem to get these days. I do recall being able to have our evening meal sitting out in the garden for what seemed weeks on end...! 

Can I also give a shout out to @CryoraptorA303 for having an amazing command of facts and figures!  

[CryoraptorA303]

 lassie23

"July 2027" heatwave:

14th: 28.4°C Woburn
15th: 33.7°C Bedford
16th: 28.6°C Coningsby

Well, there was a hot day, but at least it swiftly left...

[I remember Atlantic 252]

week of 27C no higher, then maybe a break, then another week or so mid to late 20's

[Dami]

 CryoraptorA303 good riddance too.  

[Frigid]

 SollyOlly Agree, the first half of July 2018 wasn't too bad given the humidity was quite low. Only found it uncomfortable during the second half and into August.

As for what heatwave I'd like to see this year, a one that maxes out at 25c. Preferably none, but this climate doesn't support that anymore 

[CryoraptorA303]

 I remember Atlantic 252

"June 2028" warm spell

24th: 27.2°C Pershore
25th: 27.6°C Ross-on-Wye
26th: 26.5°C Coton-in-the-Elms
27th: 27.3°C Shawbury
28th: 27.9°C Wellesbourne
29th: 27.5°C Hartpury College
30th: 27.8°C Coventry

"July 2028" warm spell & minor heatwave:

7th: 26.6°C East Malling
8th: 27.5°C Wisley
9th: 28.2°C Benson
10th: 29.9°C Coton-in-the-Elms
12th: 29.2°C Coventry
13th: 28.7°C Cambridge
14th: 26.3°C Santon Downham
15th: 26.4°C Faversham

[Wade]

A couple of weeks as a collective of 27-33 degrees low humidity from May to end of September with some thunderstorms, rest of the time 18-23 degrees Celsius. Nothing like 2022 though, that was hideous. 

Edited March 4 by Wade

[baddie]

A freak heatwave + heat spike in the second half of May, like breaking a record for longevity and intensity

[CryoraptorA303]

So far we have:

Summer 2024: Very hot, with the May record broken and three separate notable prolonged heatwaves. Annual maximum of 35.8°C at Coventry on July 23rd

Summer 2025: Extremely hot, the hottest on record with July being the first >20°C CET month on record. A new all-time record of 40.4°C recorded at South Farnborough and Otterbourne on the 10th and Faversham and East Malling on the 11th. Also broke 1976's record for longest consecutive streak above 30°C.

Summer 2027: Very unnotable, a single heat spike in July centred on Bedfordshire. Annual maximum of 33.7°C at Bedford on July 15th.

Summer 2028: Extremely inoffensive with very settled but neutral weather. Two very minor warm spells in the first half of summer centred on the Midlands. Annual maximum of 29.9°C at Coton-in-the-Elms, the lowest since 1993.

[CryoraptorA303]

 baddie

"May 2029" heatwave:

20th: 28.7°C Otterbourne
21st: 30.5°C St James's Park
22nd: 30.8°C South Farnborough
23rd: 31.8°C Benson
24th: 30.7°C Heathrow
25th: 30.3°C Yeovilton
26th: 32.5°C Wisley
27th: 32.3°C Herstmonceux
28th: 34.3°C East Malling, Kew Gardens
29th: 34.9°C Manston
30th: 31.4°C East Bergholt
31st: 28.3°C Lingwood

[Wold Topper]

Late August 28°c, running through into September, sat out in the evening in the dark with the hum of combines in the background, harvest at full chat on a warm summers evening, then a thunderstorm of epic proportion to 'freshen' things up

Edited March 4 by Wold Topper

[baddie]

 CryoraptorA303 Include an unprecedented heatwave in October, with temps above 25c for over 10 days in a row, with records smashed