Met office RED WARNING for extreme heat. Part 2:Tuesday

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Part 1 was getting a bit giant and in the miraculous event that I manage to sleep in a little tomorrow, it seems a good idea to start the new thread a little early. Part 1:
www.mumsnet.com/talk/weather/4590238-met-office-red-warning-for-extreme-heat

Met office warnings www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/warnings-and-advice/uk-warnings

We didn't quite get to record UK temperatures, though lots of site records were achieved and Wales beat its previous record temperature by more than 2c. Tomorrow we look very likely to beat the UK record and to surpass 40c.

Tonight, obviously, do everything you can to cool your homes down, it won't be easy with lows of 24c in some places. One more day and it will feel much better for many.

I'm lying on the bed, enjoying a cool breeze coming through. It is disappointing that we seem to have no rain forecast though.

Thoughts to everyone affected by the wildfires.

the countryside didn't look like the UK, but like here (south of France).

I hope it didn't look like some parts of south west France ATM.

We're about 200km from the area worse effected and now the wind has gone round to a westerly we can smell the smoke..as I gather can people in Paris..

www.nytimes.com/2022/07/19/world/europe/france-wildfires-europe-heat-wave.html

Watching news last night didn't like seeing fires. It's rained a bit since, 19 degrees, nice.

Aww man, I just read about the dozen or so animals dying during the evacuation of the zoo in Gironde 😭

Not a great night - woke at 4.30am boiling hot and that was it for my night's sleep. Went out with FosterDog at 6am and the breeze seemed almost chilly after yesterday!
Leicester's under the weather warning for thunderstorms today so we'll see what happens.....I want it to raaaaaaaain!

Still bloody hot. Windows open all night. And it's only down to 30 in here. Hotter upstairs. Got to get a boy back to school.

Ddog went into the garden at 630 and has been flat out on the grass enjoying the cool ever since !

Dd still sleeping thankfully .

Thank goodness it was only two days - another few days at that temperature would have been absolutely horrendous.

Bedroom is 24 still and I woke at 3am all hot and grumpy.
DS2 gone to school, though he wasn't happy about it (came home early yesterday feeling sick, but he was bounding around the woods in the evening). DD gone on a trip. I will try to get more sleep...

Cool breeze this morning normal summer day thank goodness

Feel awful this morning. 3 nights of not much sleep and now the humidity! certainly doesn't feel like only 21c. At least there's a breeze. No rain forecast til late evening.

Couldn't sleep till well past 1 a.m. last night - it was so stiflingly hot in our bedroom upstairs. Was awake again just after 7 a.m. and there's a lovely cool breeze now, plus it's overcast. House is far hotter than outdoors so flung all the wndows open. Feel shattered from lack of sleep over the past few days. We could really do with some rain, it's bone dry here (W. Mids).

Sorry yes heat exhaustion rather than heat stroke. Either way I feel absolutely rotten. I can’t stand up without my head spinning and my stomach trying to jump out of my body.

I am keeping everything crossed for a good thunderstorm later

Still dangerous regarding fires as everything still so dry.

It's vile, I sympathise.

There's an almost chilly breeze in Cheshire, never have I been more grateful!

Good morning all! Really sluggish this morning, so please bear with me while I wake up!

Thank you for everyone's lovely words yesterday, that's very kind.

Im still catching up with what happened yesterday but the list of firebrigades that had to declare major incidents really jumped out at me. It was hot pretty much everywhere. But look where the major incidents were declared - the counties where temperatures were hottest in the country.

I expect that part of this was that those areas in general have been very dry for months. But there are plenty of counties with similar rainfall anomalies. So a very simplistic analysis suggests that the last two days of extreme heat in those areas had something to do with it.

That's not to say that other counties didn't have a a sudden jump in wildfire incidents, because they did. It's just that this list jumped out at me.

List is from www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-62232654

Unfortunately the rain and storms today will be very hit or miss and some areas may see no rain at all. After that, in the south in general there is very little prospect of rain. I'm attaching the 35 day rainfall outlook according to GEFS for London (chosen as it is such a water stressed area). It shows the mean of the ensembles. Rain, what rain?

So make the most of any rain today and let's hope the models are wrong. Because it's only July.

If you are travelling over the next couple of days or so, check for ongoing disruption due to damaged track, overhead lines and electrical systems from the heat. www.nationalrail.co.uk/service_disruptions/300802.aspx

Gah! Just list a long post 😤

Basic gist - doors opened early, house cooled to 24 downstairs but still 28 upstairs.

DH off to London today but all Kings Cross trains cancelled so he’s had to go via Liverpool Street instead.

Looking forward to rain, though it’s not due here till about 4pm. Overnight temps of 14C tonight sound like bliss!

With regard to rain in the south east- FWIW the current Heathrow forecast shows a middling probability of showers there, starting midday onwards, then a high probability (which in Met terms means the forecaster won’t commit to promising it is a certain thing but it’s pretty close to being so ) of heavy showers from 1500 to 2100 BST…

Wait and see.

Hopefully, yes, but as is the nature of showers and storms, some parts will see them, some won't. I hope we all see them, because it's bloody needed. They will buy us some breathing space.

In terms of the fires yesterday, one of big contributory factors was that strong hot breeze . That was unusual for this country in hot weather.

I'm clearly seeing glass half empty, so if you need a glass half full analysis, which is equally valid, stick to @notimagain rain analysis for todays prospects.

If you are interested in todays thunderstorm prospects there's a discussion on
www.mumsnet.com/talk/weather/4588626-seriously-though-where-are-the-thunderstorms

Im out for a bit now.

Melancholy, thats how i'm feeling today, yesterday was horrendous, 40 where I am and the heat overnight was grim.
Looking at those burnt out houses on the news this morning has made me feel very sad.

Im received it cooler today but I cant shake this feeling of how horrible its been and it was only 2 days

18c here in Lancashire, feels a lot fresher

Netweather have issued a 'Thunderstorm Watch' for today.