Heatwave late August 1930

[Weather-history]

Here's a Times report on the heatwave of late August 1930. Up to the last few days of that month, August 1930 had been fairly cool to average. The heatwave kicked in on the 26th.

28th August: 33.9C
29th August: 34.4C

Record maxima for these dates.

33.3C on the 28th at Cambridge
33.9C at Norwich on the 29th
32.2C at Nottingham on the 29th

Temperatures of 26.7C+ were recorded generally from southern Scotland, southwards on the 27th.

The CET for the month ended as 15.7

Kew Observatory maxima
24th: 20C
25th: 22.2C
26th: 28.9C
27th: 28.9C

Minimum
30th: 19.4C

Eskdalemuir
26th: 17.8C
27th: 28.3C

At 5000ft over Duxford, the temperature was 21.7C on the 27th.

A front moving eastwards brought severe thunderstorms. There was a steep lapse rate above 7000ft with moisture in the lower layers according to reports at the time.

[BornFromTheVoid]

Here's how the 1930 heatwave looked with regard to the CET stats up to that year.

 

Here's how it compares to modern stats

[Relativistic]

On 28/08/2016 at 15:09, BornFromTheVoid said:

Here's how the 1930 heatwave looked with regard to the CET stats up to that year.

 

Here's how it compares to modern stats

It still sticks out like a sore thumb!

Quite a turnaround given how cool it was prior to the heatwave.