White coloured dust on cars and windows after light afternoon showers here on the Wirral. Alan -- Wirral, Merseyside. 53.2N 3.0W 40m amsl

The Maximum today in Basildon didn't quite make yesterdays total of 29.6C and only came in at 29.2C after an overnight minimum of 16.8C Mostly due to a fairly strong Easterly breeze and cloudier skies this afternoon. Precipitation is in sight but does not appear to be making it to ground level. Rather a disapointment after all the hype and I don't really hold out too much hope of any records...

A large anvil has formed moving up towards South/West Essex - maybe a shower from this later. Tom

Same down here in Lincoln. A breeze has just started, and it's feeling noticeably cooler - 8 oktas cloud now too. Looks like we're due some rain. G. Simon S wrote: Rapid mid level development here in South Yorkshire this afternoon after a very hot and sunny morning. Feeling more humid than yesterday but not quite as hot. Had a few large drops of rain yesterday evening may get some...

Thunderstorm coming in from the west, first this year! Bristol G

ITV Teletext p304 just now: "Temperatures are expected to be even hotter at 344C" Even Barbourne's going to have a job beating that! ;-) -- Above address *is* valid - but snip spamtrap to get me to *read*! Support the world's oldest motorsport venue!

Temperature remained well above 20 degrees over West Cornwall last night, minimum 23 degrees at St Mawgan - Newquay. (Which is on the north coast, not on the south coast as shown on the lunch-time forecast.) After a lot of thunder, but virtually no rain this morning, it's turned sunny & somewhat fresher. Mid-day temperature here in Penzance 23.5 degrees, virtually identical to mid-night last...

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Very warm feed of air coming in from the French coast. Possibly a new record high for a night minimum temperature here? And a bit difficult to sleep.... Live data feed at http://www.metoffice.gov.gg/met/LiveDataFrames.htm if you want to see how we are doing later in the night. Martin Guernsey

Here is a summary of the latest NWP output, for noon (GMT) on Saturday. Issued 0600z, 5/08/03. ECMWF: http://www.wetterzentrale.de/pics/Recm1201.html High pressure lies to the east of the UK, bringing light southerlies and SE'lies for most. A ridge builds over Scotland and Ireland at T+144, with NNE'lies across most of the UK. The ridge persists over Scotland at T+168, with light easterlies to...

You may have guessed from my tone, I am a sun and heat lover. and anyone who is not a heat lover better get used to it, its only going to get warmer as the years go by. "Len Watts" wrote in message ... Despite the Europe wide heatwave and drought, good old Britain once again has to buck the trend with...

Recently, there was a case of cold front passing. Wind was observed to turn in 20 minutes. A high-resolution NWP model* had, at output resolution of 3h, both pre-frontal and post-frontal wind right. My friend wants to know: what is the limit ? Could the model have wind right in 20 min scale, too ? So is the limit only in the output or do we meet the model physics already ? Words like...

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Another very warm month (indeed, the warmest in my records). At last a day over 80F! Average maximum 21.0 Average minimum 12.8 Average 16.9 Highest maximum 27.1 (4th) Lowest maximum 15.5 (5th) Highest minimum 16.2 (18th) Lowest minimum 8.3 (13th)

Warm and humid night here on the Wirral and with the fresh SE wind it looks like today may possibly be the hottest day of the year. Minimum recorded in the screen 19.9°C Current temperature 0910 BST 21.8°C Alan -- Wirral, Merseyside. 53.2N 3.0W 40m amsl

Everyone and almost everybody is going mad on this one. I have seen 3 forecasts for London showing 37C for Wednesday. There are some quite unique conditions for some high temperatures but I'll go for a 36C somewhere. If we got a 38C and it is an official one, then TWO have won the...

Been hearing of the unusually hot weather in britain, and mainland Europe lately (southern Germany 102 F!), and of course thought, Oh dear, and they don't have air conditioning! But, is this altogether true? Is it known what proportion of domestic and commercial buildings now have air conditioning in Britain, and/or Europe generally, I wonder? Here in north texas, it's been flickering around...

In the referenced article, "Sean Blowman" writes: Hopefully when the current "heatwave" ends the possibilty of a severe thundery breakdown must exist, such as the breakdown of 1976. Any thoughts? My observations are that the severest thundery spells are actually after two or three day "temporary" hot spells, perhaps because pressure is lower. The really hot summers...

In article , Sean Blowman writes: Hopefully when the current "heatwave" ends the possibilty of a severe thundery breakdown must exist, such as the breakdown of 1976. Any thoughts? As I remember 1976, the notable thing was the number of times that at least a temporary thundery breakdown was forecast for a few days hence but failed...

As I watch only a few very large rain drops falling (20:30) I wonder if this is going to show up as heavy rain or light rain on the radar. Is it rate that matter or will drop size make a difference? ================================================ simon sheaf sheffield south yorkshire http://www.anycities.com/user/yorkshireweather (new photos July 03)