It was all over Twitter in the past few days. The AGW "sceptics" are convinced it's a conspiracy.
Our local area stalled for a while around 34.6C but is now at 35.5.
Surreal experience seeing Julie Reinger putting 41C as the BBC East region maximum on Tuesday.
I know plenty of intelligent people who never watch a weather forecaset.
I've just had one argue that the Met O's heatwave definition is "arbitrary" and just intended to scare people. When I told him there has to be a definition, he asked "why?"