Heat wave day 2, Heathrow Airport about 36C

(Before It's News)

As expected, see here ,

Day 2 of the June/July 2015 heatwave in England topped out at an hourly mean of 35.9C which will be bumped up by spot noise to >36C, unless the Met Office finds a higher reading from somewhere out of sight. The weather was very humid and under variable cloud, wind SSE which brings it from urban.

No time for neat formatting, from quick SS sort.

3772 2015-07-01Z 14:00:00 na 35.9 Heathrow Airport
3672 2015-07-01Z 16:00:00 na 35.1 Northholt Airport
99080 2015-07-01Z 14:00:00 na 34.8 Wisley Garden
3772 2015-07-01Z 16:00:00 na 34.6 Heathrow Airport
3672 2015-07-01Z 14:00:00 na 34.5 Northholt Airport
99095 2015-07-01Z 15:00:00 na 34.5 Kew Gardebs
3672 2015-07-01Z 15:00:00 na 34.3 Northholt Airport
3772 2015-07-01Z 15:00:00 na 34.3 Heathrow Airport
99095 2015-07-01Z 14:00:00 na 34.2 Kew Gardebs
3772 2015-07-01Z 10:00:00 na 34.1 Heathrow Airport
99057 2015-07-01Z 15:00:00 na 34.1 Woburn (ARS)
3462 2015-07-01Z 12:00:00 na 33.9 RAF Wittering

Quick plot of all station data to 16hr BST (data times UT)
Yesterday’s plot
ZIP of data as CSV

Following written yesterday but not published

Hourly maximum

• 30.4C @16hrs Northolt Airport, London
  Official
  Highest maximum temperature Northolt 30.5 °C
  Issued at: 0003 on Wed 01 Jul 2015
• 30.4C @16hrs Jersey Airport, Channel Islands
• 30.2C @15hrs Kew Gardens, London
• 30.0C @14hrs Jersey Airport, Channel Islands
• 29.9C @15hrs Heathrow Airport, London

Observation: Both Northholt and Jersey thermometers are close downwind of local heat sources: A40 expressway; building and storage area. The late peak, 16hrs points to phase lag from thermal inertia. Heathrow is slightly better placed with the wind as it was.

Weather collapsed into thunderstorms, lightning, rumbling and slight rain here after cloud built up.

Cleared, right now I can see a full moon though haze.
Later, another rain shower, rumbling.

Forecast: hotter tomorrow, pause, hot Friday.

Written 1st July, had to go out, car thermo soaked in sun read 45C, twin air con condenser cooling fans came on immediately at high speed, almost unknown, happens at 40C. On moving thermo settled at 34C. Hazy sun or cloud, hot and steamy.

Here we go

U.N. warns of risks as Europe enjoys scorcher

The United Nations warned on Wednesday of the dangers posed by hot weather, especially to children and the elderly, as much of Europe sweltered in a heatwave whose intensity it blamed on climate change.

Authorities should give people as much warning as possible of potentially dangerous high temperatures so that they take can precautions, the World Meteorological Organization and the World Health Organization said.

It also reminded people to drink plenty of water.

Tens of thousands of people died across Europe in a 2003 heatwave and again in Russia in 2010.
— http://uk.reuters.com/article/2015/07/01/uk-weather-un-idUKKCN0PB4LC20150701

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