Have you seen the weather forecast for next week?!

[TokyoSushi]

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

Do you see any end in sight oybbk and gloria?

The Twitter bods keep talking about it reaving hideous temps here in the south east next week and it carrying long into August.

I like a bit of sun but this is getting a bit silly now!

Cooler today in London. I thought about donning a cardigan but decided it wasn't really necessary.

No end for the south or east showing reliably Sally. It does looking like it's going to heat up again.

It's amazing how disturbing this feels. It's really weird.

OYBBK yer breaking my heart here

We desperately need some rain now!

OYBBK/Gloria, do you think there is anything in some of these weather people predicting high 30s in London/SE for the weekend after next? I had a quick look at the Netweather charts which seems to back that up. That would be blinking typical as I'm back to work then! (had a week of nice cooler temps and a bit of rain here in the NW, its been lovely!)

Remember when water used to fall from the sky??

Wow, don’t look at the net weather 10 day forecast if you hate the heat. It’s claiming 38 degrees next Friday here in the SE. No other websites picking this up so hoping that’s nonsense. Sounds ridiculous!

At least if it does get to 38 it won't be when the kids are at school. I will probably have to sit my autistic child in a bath with a fan aimed at him all day just to make it bearable.

For the past three days, it has clouded over about lunchtime with greyish clouds and looked promising for rain. Then it doesn't rain. We're just outside Cambridge and I don't think it's rained a drop for over 50 days. And it does feel really odd.

It's interesting that gfs is picking up on the very hot trend.

It's going to be fascinating to look at the next model run. If GFS is right, then we are possibly looking at an all time record breaker. The model run is an outlier, so much as record breakers are fascinating hopefully it will trend back to something more sensible.

Am at some of the temperatures for next week, especially what's showing for the SE/E bits of the UK for the end of the week (although it's a bit far ahead for certainty at the moment.)
What an interesting year for weather it's been so far.

I bet the weather boards have never been so busy. What a year for weather!
I loved the first load of snow in December. My boys haven’t really seen much previous. In March I was over it. No Spring. Easter was awful. Then from May bank holiday it’s been glorious! (If you like this weather).
I’ve never known anything like it.

I can only see netweather picking up the high temps. BBC etc more conservative. I wonder if they’ll get on board over the next few days. Very interesting.

www.metcheck.com/ are forecasting 33/35 for next week in London.

Am still loving it.

Models have stepped temps back a little. Thank goodness.

We are entering a real farming crisis, not just from the point of view of salad and veggies not growing now, but there's going to be a huge problem with having enough hay this winter to feed animals.

Oh God, driving over Downs this morning admiring the view and then suddenly realised the patchwork of fields below were all varying shades of "straw"!

OBBYK "It's amazing how disturbing this feels. It's really weird."

I must be terrible at reading tone because I got the impression you liked it!

I am desperate for cool air in London but I'm giving up hope for months now.

We've booked a Cornwall holiday for the 3rd week in August. Are experts predicting the good weather to last until the end of the summer holidays?

The local paper said that we have been 40 days without rain.
Starting to sound rather biblical.

Lighthouse, I like warm weather, it suits me. I don't like extreme conditions. I'm not sat here egging on the heat while watching crops fail and people and animals struggle. I do find it utterly fascinating though.

Clark, we can't know that but at the moment for those in the south and east (as well as other parts but to a lesser extent) it does look still as though we are in for continued very warm/hot spell into August.

We had some rain on St Swithin's Day last week (but no 40 days of it to follow!). Added about 25l to the water butt (cos I drained off 40l to a large bucket we have to maximize space, but it didn't fill to the top again - DH had just filled it from the tap to allow watering cans on the veggies - flowers are wilting fast but they aren't being watered).

Report in the paper this week about barley straw being very expensive and in short supply already for farmers and horse studs.

After a few duller, slightly cooler days (what we'd normally be happy with as "summer" here - 18-20 degrees), it's back to hotter and sunny today. And it has been extraordinarily CALM for weeks now - barely any breeze at all. Even the sea breezes are dying off, as the land and sea are reaching similar temps.

We're on a hosepipe ban for over a week now, and reduced water pressures overnight (10pm until 5am) nightly since this past Monday in an effort to conserve stocks for the autumn. So we're now at "level 2" of a new 5 level system announced last week by Irish Water!

I was "down south" (in Ireland) over the weekend, and they were talking about springs and wells drying up.

Is there an app or something that will tell me for definite when it last rained where I am?

Thanks BadKitten it would be lovely to have a sunny Cornish beach holiday.

This is the closest I know NC4
www.timeanddate.com/weather/uk/london/historic

But it defaults to nearby locations rather than your own town and because there have been some very localized heavy storms it won't be accurate for many.

I've just looked at my records at my own weather station. The last rainfall that wasn't 'trace' was back on 1st June. So 49 days ago.