Have you seen the weather forecast for next week?!

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Looks like it's going to be hot hot hot!! Does that look right Ohyoubadbadkitten & Gloria

24 here already

After a nice day with a fairly decent breeze, the wind's dropped, it's gone all overcast and it's an 'orribly muggy 26C here (Leicester) now.

While we have a nice summer, Iceland is having its worst summer for 100 years.

Todays thoughts from TheWeatherOutlook ~ warmer than yesterday in some places, with temperatures in the south hitting 30, 31 or even a 32C

It looks like there may be a slightly cooler interlude mid week, followed by heat building back some towards the weekend. After that GFS operational run goes for a return of the westerlies with some unsettled weather. However it seems to be out on a limb and I don't believe it.

Today looks like being pretty unbearable, I'm really hoping the cooler interlude for next week turns out to be true. I'm sick of driving around in a car that feels like a furnace, breaking out in a sweat at any exertion and not wanting to cook because the kitchen is so hot.

a question about thermometers please - I have one in my south facing garden, fastened to a wooden post so that the thermometer itself is in the shade all day (so it's north facing). Regularly it's showing much warmer than the "official" local temperatures (and often colder in winter). Is it likely it's just far too sensitive, or is it possible that it actually was 39 degrees in my (Surrey) back garden yesterday lunchtime?

Interesting Gloria that the breakdown that was forecast for mid July may well not happen.

Don't tell them on the 'we hate summer' thread!

This is becoming a very lovely and memorable summer for me. Two warm camping trips, a lovely outdoor festival last night. Sitting out in pub gardens... BBQ today. Long may it last (I know the gardens need rain)

Ok today is officially too hot. And I've been loving this weather so far. But i have to go into London . I'll be a puddle of sweat by 2pm!

It definitely won't have been 39c MyVisions, it sounds like the post is getting warm and conducting heat through.

In 1976 we obviously didn't have the forecasting capabilities that we do now, but interestingly, back then, the models constantly showed a breakdown just around the corner and of course it didn't break down for a long time.

I don't have a crystal ball, but the set up still looks similar.

thanks OYBBK - so should the wood be noticeably warm to the touch then? Physics isn't my strong suit (as may be obvious!) - is this then like how your car thermometer isn't accurate cos it's taking on some heat from the engine etc?

How could I make the thermometer be more accurate (other than buying a new one)? Would moving it to a brick wall be better? Does brick carry less heat than wood?

OYBBK - I suspect you weren't around in 1976 but I was & this really does have them same feel. 1975 was a very hot summer as well, but got eclipsed by 76.

It didn't break until September in 76.

Am sure you know how much I am loving this

Delatron ~ I'm quite liking it too. I haven't minded the heat during the day (it has to get to 32/33 before I start complaining!) and apart from Thursday night when it was really uncomfortable, the nights have been OK here. I'm hoping (with plenty of watering before we go away next Saturday), that I'm in for a bumper crop of stuff at the allotment as well this year ~ there are signs that the pumpkins are going to be good already!

My Visions ~ does the sun hit the other side of the fence? I'm wondering because I've just gone and put my hand against my north-facing fence (it's in the shade my side but not my neighbours side) and my side is warm-ish. I'm wondering if your thermometer's picking up heat from the other side of the fence?

Or what OYBBK said!

Yesterday was the first day I was struggling with the heat and last night was awful even with the fan on full pelt.

The guys and gals on Netweather community are getting excited about a stormy breakdown mid July so it's interesting you think that might not happen OYBBK.

I saw a few suggestions on Twitter yesterday we might be in for a whisper.....harsh winter. I'm so hot it seems vaguely appealing at present!

Can you hang the thermometer so it's not touching anything?

A cheats way of insulating it more is to find polystyrene packaging, the box sort and nestling it into that with air vents. It's not ideal, but until I got a proper screened weather station that's what I used to do.

Don't tell any other forecasters that's what I did though

Magi you are very kind, I was little in 76, I remember it as an endless summer and I was very sad when it ended.

I have just seen this thread, and was thinking it reminds me of 1976 .
In my memory it is still 'The Year of the Drought" , and broke down IIRC about beginning of September . I got married in a gale in the March , went on holiday in the Peak District in August , where our rambling was curtailed by not being allowed on paths due to fire hazard.
The water situation is much better now though - I remember seeing the empty, cracked reservoirs.
Our weather station thermometer always seems to show a degree or two hotter - its in the sun in a morning, then shade in the afternoon .

thanks for all the thermometer thoughts - I've had a closer look and the bulb of the thermometer doesn't touch anything, it's surrounded by plastic which doesn't touch it, and the back of the plastic is a few mm away from the wood. The post itself is 4" square, and the side which is currently in the sun is significantly warmer than the other sides (including the one the thermometer is on). So that seems like quite a lot of wood for the heat to travel through, and even then it can only get to the plastic, and not the bulb of the thermometer.

Unless if you heat a thermometer further up (where the plastic surround does touch the glass) that also contributes to how hot it thinks it is?

Dammit, I might have to ask DDs physics graduate boyfriend to explain it all to me in words of one syllable with diagrams aren't I? Thus proving (yet again) why not having had compulsory science lessons past 13 was a Bad Idea

if I bought one of those fancy digital thermometers where you put a sensor outside, am I going to have the same issues finding somewhere to put the sensor where it's not going to pickup residual heat (do I mean residual?)?

Whatever the actual temperature, it's officially Bloody Hot in this corner of Surrey

That sums it up well, MyVisions

We hit 42 yeasterday (I'm in cyprus) and at 10 this morning it was already 39-please
Spare
A thought for those of us living on a desert island! I would happily swap a 29!!!

Phew barbiegirl ~ that's a little on the warm side!
Are you inland? I lived there from 1975-1976 (so don't have any memories of how 'that summer' was for the UK!) but know that the middle of the country/the Nicosia area gets rather hot during the summer months.

I'm about 30 mins from the coast, and I know I shouldn't complain but it's sucks the energy right out of you!