The official summer sun, BBQ and thunder thread 2019

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24lemons said:

I’d love to know what the reasoning is behind issuing regular weather warnings that are so broad ranging and vague. They invariably get downgraded or cancelled.

People will surely soon get fed up of receiving false alerts, and when a genuine high risk event looms, no bugger will listen!

It's best to open up the 'further details' section on the warning, which gives you a matrix:



As you can see - different sections of the matrix will raise different colour warnings. So something of low impact and low probability is grey - no warning. But you can also have a very low chance of an event - but of very high impact, so that's yellow. Often nothing might happen.

So an amber warning doesn't happen until something is of far more likely occurance and quite high impact, and red only when it's very likely and very high impact.

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Dr Doofenshmirtz said:

Well, considering last week we were hoping for 'feels like' 45 degrees and biblical thunderstorms...it's all turned out a bit normal really.
Cool, a bit muggy at times, wet.

And yet just south of the Channel it will be in the 40s and god knows what the feels like will be. Fine margins!

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Heading off to Glasgow today. Scottish West Coast will probably be warmest part of UK. 29 possible in GetCarter land, 27 in Glasgow.

Low-mid 20s in SE England. East coast much colder (Hull only reached 14 yesterday under North Sea cloud).

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Sigh

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mcelliott said:

I'm probably wrong on this but I don't think the Canary Islands ever suffer from really oppressive heat. I believe they get caressed by lovely trade winds of the Atlantic.

It can be awfully hot, but you need an easterly off the Sahara which is rarer than an easterly from Russia for us. Generally the Atlantic pegs temps back, as you say. Low 30s is normal in peak.

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Just passed Heathrow on M25. Car showing 30.5 before midday.

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Charlwood officially at 31.0, hottest day of year.

Another few degrees to go, at least.

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32 in Northolt

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Northolt again. 33.0

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34 officially in northolt.

35.6 is the June record

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High pressure week coming up. So not a lot of rain! Might warm up to high 20s towards end of week.

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Storms starting to kick off around Leeds. These could move NE and become really quite severe as they move towards Geordieland.

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Cold front has passed through Reading. Thank god, can feel the cool breeze.

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Mexman said:

Heard yesterday on the late weather forecast that the South East wasn't expecting overnight temperatures to fall below 27c overnight.
I would imagine that is impossible to sleep in.
Here's a question I cannot find the answer to...
What is the overnight high temperature record in the UK?
I would think, 27c has got to be pretty close?

I struggle to believe that temp for last night. Once the cold front passed the temp dropped very quickly.

Record is 23.9 set in Brighton, 1990.

https://www.currentresults.com/Weather-Extremes/UK...

Edited by Puggit on Sunday 30th June 14:29

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End of the week is not 100% sure, but most likely outcome is high pressure and mid 20s.

ie perfect (except for the breeze from the north, take another layer if staying in to evening).

Edited by Puggit on Sunday 30th June 16:35

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In to next weekend, there are signs of another plume forming. Let's see...

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PositronicRay said:

I don't want to worry you lot but the shadows are getting longer.

Happens every day

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Flanders. said:

Good News, thanks Puggit!

Temps creeping up... (map of temperature at 2m above ground for Friday 5pm)

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Early indications of another Greenland High later in July - this is NOT good news, but isn't nailed on either.

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June was pretty wet. I'm fairly sure the wet part south of London was that cold cold washout Monday.