The official 2015 warm sunshine and BBQ thread...

[Melman Giraffe]

Johnnytheboy said:

The papers aren't being slow with the bikini babes being used to illustrate stories about the weather. From the Mail...



"Jess, of Cornwall"

Nice

[Melman Giraffe]

WCZ said:

sweating my ball sack off here, living in a modern apartment with lots of glass windows has serious downsides!

Try sitting in an office under railway arches no Air con and 15 Workstations with 30 odd monitors adding to the heat

[Puggit]

35.3 achieved in Wittering and Heathrow. July record is 36.5

[Uncle John]

Last night at 8.40 pm the car said 31 degrees in Reigate!

And damn it felt like it too.

[Mr GrimNasty]

Puggit said:

35.3 achieved in Wittering and Heathrow. July record is 36.5

Saying 36C which means somewhere between 35.5-36.4 at the moment (not sure if they adjust after).

[Puggit]

Uncle John said:

Last night at 8.40 pm the car said 31 degrees in Reigate!

And damn it felt like it too.

Currently 31.3 in my garden

[Puggit]

Massive storm heading for Newcastle area - might be a supercell.

Time to hunker down up there.

[Dan_1981]

Chesterfield area had a pretty decent storm about an hour ago says the wife.

Nothing in the Brum area - just very hot and humid.

[Melman Giraffe]

Mr GrimNasty said:

Puggit said:

35.3 achieved in Wittering and Heathrow. July record is 36.5

Saying 36C which means somewhere between 35.5-36.4 at the moment (not sure if they adjust after).

Isn't 5pm the peak

[Puggit]

36.7 at Heathrow - hottest July day ever recorded.

[Mr GrimNasty]

Melman Giraffe said:

Mr GrimNasty said:

Puggit said:

35.3 achieved in Wittering and Heathrow. July record is 36.5

Saying 36C which means somewhere between 35.5-36.4 at the moment (not sure if they adjust after).

Isn't 5pm the peak

Depends on wind etc. big bubbles of urban heat swilling around, might peak higher well into evening.

The trouble with a Heathrow 'record' is that it's just a measure of all the extra concrete mass! Surrounding areas are ~4C lower, which is more realistic, and even those are badly urban affected.

Meanwhile the Tooting Popular Front has taken direct action it seems.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-333488...

[Gandahar]

Johnnytheboy said:

The papers aren't being slow with the bikini babes being used to illustrate stories about the weather. From the Mail...



"Jess, of Cornwall"

Agreed, check out Rupert from Nantwich below as shown by the Morning Star.





What a scorcher.

[WCZ]

I was genuinely tempted to walk across the road and check myself into an air conditioning hotel room last night actually!
tempted to do the same again tonight!

[Gandahar]

Melman Giraffe said:

Mr GrimNasty said:

Puggit said:

35.3 achieved in Wittering and Heathrow. July record is 36.5

Saying 36C which means somewhere between 35.5-36.4 at the moment (not sure if they adjust after).

Isn't 5pm the peak

Not normally, peak is around 1-3pm and also depends where you are in the world and ground conditions.

[Gandahar]

Puggit said:

Massive storm heading for Newcastle area - might be a supercell.

Time to hunker down up there.

That's just an excuse so you can start drinking brown ale earlier than Gazza !

[Dr Murdoch]

Melman Giraffe said:

Nice

No, Cornwall

[Puggit]

Dr Murdoch said:

Melman Giraffe said:

Nice

No, Cornwall

Quite right, Nice has a stony beach - tsk, MG...

[Mr GrimNasty]

Gandahar said:

Melman Giraffe said:

Mr GrimNasty said:

Puggit said:

35.3 achieved in Wittering and Heathrow. July record is 36.5

Saying 36C which means somewhere between 35.5-36.4 at the moment (not sure if they adjust after).

Isn't 5pm the peak

Not normally, peak is around 1-3pm and also depends where you are in the world and ground conditions.

It's complicated, under current conditions peak tends to be in the late afternoon/early evening, seems to be dipping off now, but we could get a waft of hot continental air which will take it up again.

[Bill]

Puggit said:

Quite right, Nice has a stony beach - tsk, MG...

She's wearing too much for Nice.

[MentalSarcasm]

I'm going to require some snow this winter to make up for all this heat.