Yes a real record breaker of a day.
Paul

On Wednesday, 1 July 2015 15:50:36 UTC+1, wrote:
Yes a real record breaker of a day.
Paul

Yep recorded at Heathrow - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-33324881

The Met Office said a temperature of 36.7C (98F) had been reached at Heathrow at 14:50 BST - breaking the previous record set in 2006.

I'm a couple of miles south in Shepperton at it sure feels like it, the cycle home to Woking is going to be slow!

That's true for July, but I think the highest Heathrow temperature must have been on Sunday the 10th of August 2003 when it reached 37.9°C and Gravesend reached the all time high for the UK of 38.1°C. The area of 35+ was much larger than today's.

The temperature at Heathrow and Northolt at 0900 UTC on that day was 29.6 & 29.7 respectively, but don't forget that's almost 6 weeks later in the year and the sun would have been up that much less.

On Wednesday, July 1, 2015 at 4:16:15 PM UTC+1, Bruce Messer wrote:
That's true for July, but I think the highest Heathrow temperature must have been on Sunday the 10th of August 2003 when it reached 37.9°C and Gravesend reached the all time high for the UK of 38.1°C. The area of 35+ was much larger than today's.

The temperature at Heathrow and Northolt at 0900 UTC on that day was 29.6 & 29.7 respectively, but don't forget that's almost 6 weeks later in the year and the sun would have been up that much less.

What interests me, apart from the fact we had a July record today, is the frequency with which such extreme temperature records are being broken. This one lasted all of 9 years. That is true worldwide and there are far more warm records being set than cold. It's a world we are going to have to get used to.

On Wednesday, 1 July 2015 19:38:06 UTC+1, Dawlish wrote:
On Wednesday, July 1, 2015 at 4:16:15 PM UTC+1, Bruce Messer wrote:
That's true for July, but I think the highest Heathrow temperature must have been on Sunday the 10th of August 2003 when it reached 37.9°C and Gravesend reached the all time high for the UK of 38.1°C. The area of 35+ was much larger than today's.

The temperature at Heathrow and Northolt at 0900 UTC on that day was 29.6 & 29.7 respectively, but don't forget that's almost 6 weeks later in the year and the sun would have been up that much less.

What interests me, apart from the fact we had a July record today, is the frequency with which such extreme temperature records are being broken. This one lasted all of 9 years. That is true worldwide and there are far more warm records being set than cold. It's a world we are going to have to get used to.

We all know that the earth naturally warms and cools and for the last 700 thousands years its been in a period of glaciation interspersed with warm inter glacial's with the last one being far warmer than this current period. In fact there were hippopotami grazing on the south coast and I'm not having a dig at your missus.

So the world is in a warm period recovering from a little ice age , but not as warm as when the Vikings farmed Greenland, which by the way has just had one of its coldest springs early summer ever recorded.

Enjoy the heat while it lasts

On Wednesday, July 1, 2015 at 7:57:08 PM UTC+1, Lawrence Jenkins wrote:
On Wednesday, 1 July 2015 19:38:06 UTC+1, Dawlish wrote:
On Wednesday, July 1, 2015 at 4:16:15 PM UTC+1, Bruce Messer wrote:
That's true for July, but I think the highest Heathrow temperature must have been on Sunday the 10th of August 2003 when it reached 37.9°C and Gravesend reached the all time high for the UK of 38.1°C. The area of 35+ was much larger than today's.

The temperature at Heathrow and Northolt at 0900 UTC on that day was 29.6 & 29.7 respectively, but don't forget that's almost 6 weeks later in the year and the sun would have been up that much less.

What interests me, apart from the fact we had a July record today, is the frequency with which such extreme temperature records are being broken. This one lasted all of 9 years. That is true worldwide and there are far more warm records being set than cold. It's a world we are going to have to get used to.

We all know that the earth naturally warms and cools and for the last 700 thousands years its been in a period of glaciation interspersed with warm inter glacial's with the last one being far warmer than this current period.. In fact there were hippopotami grazing on the south coast and I'm not having a dig at your missus.

So the world is in a warm period recovering from a little ice age , but not as warm as when the Vikings farmed Greenland, which by the way has just had one of its coldest springs early summer ever recorded.

Enjoy the heat while it lasts

Idiot.

Enjoy that ever shrinking corner of that tiny room of deniers you inhabit. You really are breathtakingly stupid larry.