Radiating Dendrite

Places in the SE already at 26c by 9am. I am a little surprised, as we are only just nudging 23c in my back garden.

A place to post your latest temperatures and reliable station date, onwards and upwards to a possible new record and 40c over the next couple of days. Don't forget those nighttime minimums as well. Currently 21c here after a low of 19c. 38.7c, we're coming for you!!

Something quite surreal hearing a meto forecast saying 104f! I think we're now looking at: Today, peak at around 32c. Monday, temp record goes, somewhere gets close to 40c. Tuesday, temp record gone again and also 40c. Could be looking at a 41c and I think we'll know more after how hot Monday gets. Wednesday, much cooler, but still a high 20s number in the east (perhaps 30c). Also, nighttime record will get smashed. Could be looking at 26c overnight Monday. Unbelievable Jeff!

The irony! I'd give anything for a decent -2c dew point in winter!

41.3c Tuesday - Lincolnshire.

Out of the frying pan and into the fire on the GFS 6z. Widespread 40c even on Monday, with temperature records smashed.

That would be a 5c lift on the existing Wales temperature record which was also set in Hawarden in 1990 (35.2c). I do not see that happening, maybe around 37c / 38c. I think the temperature record will be somewhere between North London and Lincolnshire, similar to where the existing once was set. Think we could be looking at 40c / 41c by Tuesday.

Difference in winter is everything is on such a knife edge. If it gets watered-down in winter from -1c to 2c, you end up with cold rain and no sledging. In summer, if it goes from 33c to 30c, we're still getting the paddling pool out!!

38.7c - 25th July 2019, Cambridge Botanical Gardens.

Where you live perhaps. Looking at sunny and 26c here by the end of the week. We made 22c today and had some lovely sunshine. Some people need to relocate. As a northerner originally, the difference in summer between the north and SE is stark.

Pointless speculating too much - hopefully it is warm and sunny. Given energy prices, an average 16c CET for every month of the year would now be most desirable!

Windy here, but I've seen it worse in all honesty. Having experienced the Christmas eve storm in North Wales in 97, this is not anywhere close in my locale. Swaying trees and a few wheelie bins have fallen over.

Sting Jet - enhanced localised winds as higher winds above make it down to the surface. Could be looking at 90 - 100 mph gusts if it occurs.

BBQ got out of hand? What were they doing, putting petrol on it? Christ I struggle to get mine going most of the time!

Always tend to overplay the wind speeds. Will probably track further south, with 60 - 70mph gusts across Southern England..... stronger at the coast.

Just looks like another FI wild goose chase. Some seem to never learn. Mobile February is what I'm expecting given the strength of the PV even if there is a disconnect. Plenty of cold rain to balance out the dry January.

Happy Christmas to all you fellow weather loonies!

There was!!!!! a lot of ramping!!!!! though by the usual!!!!! posters!!!!! My discovery of the ignore button has helped my enjoyment of the thread significantly.

Sorry for those who are now going to miss out, but it always looked a slush fest at best.

What charts? The precipitation will be too far south by then, unless you mean a bit of frost on the ground?

I have lived here for 35 years, believe me, my expectations are pretty low! I just do not understand what people are getting so excited about - the way some are acting, you would think we had another 2010 on the horizon. This looks like standard UK cold spell, not quite cold enough for anything interesting before it then disappears.

I am looking for snow. All I see is rain and then when the cold does arrive, it is not cold enough for a snowy easterly - mainly dry, before it potentially turns mild again. Not exactly narnia.

It was never game on for us in the south. This does feel like the last knockings of winter, everyone getting excited at some possible slush near the end of March after a mild winter.

I thought the ones on Sunday were huge? Are these now mega-huge?