New blog post on week ahead #ukweather we will see further fine and sunny weather this coming week. There will be at times a nagging E'ly wind, as we move to BH weekend we do start to see high pressure wane bringing a threat of more unsettled conditions. www.patreon.com/posts/week-a...

Correction: 30 June, 1976 experienced even lower humidity an air temp of 30c with dew point of -3C made relative humidity of 12%.

A record breaking day for dry air in London at least over last 80 years ish. Tied with 40C day in July 2022 for lowest relative humidity. I definitely remember them hairdryer winds. Shows how exceptional this is.

Exceptionally dry air this afternoon especially inland areas to west of London through Thames valley. Heathrow last reported air temp of 20.2C and dew point of -7.1C with relative humidity sinking to an incredible 15% this is lowest humidity I’ve ever seen in our region. Possibly unprecedented.

Deep blue skies… Dealing with dry skin? Heathrow’s reporting relative humidity of 21% in last hour. Very dry air. Also means UV ☀️ is packing more a punch. I don’t think we’ve seen RH that low since covid spring. Rare.

Glorious! #London #spring

Signs of something cooler, cloudier and wetter by near end of early May bank holiday weekend. Appetite for blocking in NW Europe responsible for this sunny and settled spell to back westwards. Drawing in lower pressure from N/NE… showery and cooler perhaps. To be confirmed.

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Dry air increasingly fading out all clouds across UK = ☀️☀️☀️ ☁️ in far southwest associated with low pressure but that’s retreating back out in open Atlantic with high pressure acting as roadblock. This bone dry and sunny weather is expected to continue for next 10 days. #ukweather

Temps have uptrended later this week a string of low 20s is likely between Thursday and Saturday. With nagging E’ly wind starting to ease from Thursday it will feel warm in the unbroken sunshine. Nights remaining cool.

Endless high pressure! Next week increasingly is looking similar to this week lots of fine and sunny weather with high actually gravitating over UK. Suggesting light winds, cooler nights but warmer by day. Prolonged sunny anticyclone in spring we’re being spoiled for second year in a row… (1/2)

An exceptionally dry April becomes crystal clear. No rainfall forecast across most of southern England and large chunk of France over next 10 days by European model. Spring drought is rearing its head again.

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April showers dying out? Increasing frequency in dry April's v clear to see the red dots indicating sub 20mm years. Over 50% below avg. <20mm April's at LHR data from 1948: 1954, 1956, 1957, 1960, 1974, 1976, 1984, 1995, 1997, 2007, 2011, 2015, 2017, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2025 and 2026* #climate

A further taster of very pleasant spring weather is expected next week. Looking at widespread cloudless skies ☀️between Wednesday and Friday, Thursday seems warm in the south. Uncertainty with next weekend possibly cooler and cloudier but still dry.

8pm sunsets are back tonight #London continuing for next 131 days.

Too wet to too dry. Despite how wet the winter was, there will be problems in summer if this continues. British farmers are being tested in ways not seen in a very long time. 10-day accumulated rainfall:

A look at the end of week weather: turning more drier and settled across UK. If you want to support my weather work a good way is by becoming a patron. Membership starts at £1.86/month. www.patreon.com/posts/155781...

The southern portion of band has mostly fragmented 😒

After a quite nice and settled weekend we see the anticyclone retrograde to Greenland into next week. This is expected to introduce cooler flows from N/NE it’s not an unsettled look, however, likely to result in showers across eastern areas initially with a keen wind.

A welcome drop of rain on way accompanied with cold front. Lasting about 45 minutes probably arriving 4pm in London.

There’s going to be a big shake up in hemispheric pressure pattern next week. Developing polar blocking and -NAO, this means mid latitudes will be more prone to cooler and wetter weather. It seems for UK it’s looking unclear E winds are not necessarily cool anymore but N winds are.

The final air frost of season occurred on morning of 14 January at #London Heathrow. Unprecedented earliness. 2026 is by far the earliest on record by 23 days and the first in 1949- record this happened in January. Avg last date 1961-1990: 8th April 1991-2020: 25th March 2017-2026: 13th March

Nice towering cumulonimbus visible to my east near Erith, SE London illuminated by setting sun. #AprilShowers

Chilly night to come… becoming effectively windless overnight. Tender plants may be damaged so take note. Mist and fog may also form but dissipating quickly once sun rises.

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48 hour temperature change… 📈📉 26C to 12C in London we must not lose sight the warm weather is the much greater anomaly. Temps are not much below average today.

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Back to reality… The temperature has dropped noticeably from 21.4C in early afternoon to 14.5C at 5pm at London Heathrow a fall of 7C. Cooler polar maritime air accompanied with breezy westerly wind and thicker cloud. Big sudden change in feel.

Warm lunchtime in SE with hazy sunshine…. 22.5C Frittenden, Kent. There will be a different feel by late afternoon, cloudier with a drop in temperature evident.

Nearing 9pm.. a clear night sky and 22C in early April. Crazy!

26.1C the confirmed high at #London Heathrow, this is 12C above the 91-20 average daily max. So we claim the earliest 25C on record from 2017 by 1 day and more impressively the earliest 26C formerly of 1949 by 8 days.

Today's impressive warmth in southern UK is the product of an exceptionally warm airmass coupled with well above normal sea surface temps in the vicinity. The second very noticeable here, about 15 miles inland in Dorset, where there's no sign of the usual cooling sea breeze.

26.5C (79.7F) at Kew this afternoon, the daily max record from 2011 is obliterated by 4.4C! Only 1946 is known to have had a temperature hotter than this so early in year in London area…. 26.7C at Greenwich on 4 April 1946.

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Extensively breaking 25-26C in London area. The average July high the warmest month is 24C for context. Humidity is low so no real discomfort from this warm weather. But feeling very warm in direct sunshine ☀️ strength same as late August.

Northolt, West London… 25.9C (79F) outstanding for early April.

Heathrow reporting 23.1C at 1pm, comfortably exceeds daily highest max record for 8th April which is 21.9C from 2020. Still a way to climb too.

Very warm tomorrow expecting at least 25C in London winds will also be much lighter and veering southerly. By Friday colder air will have spread to all areas, it will be some 10-12C cooler. An illustration we are only in early April after all.

Today was the first day of 2026 we registered 20C+ at #London Heathrow. Nowadays, we can expect over 100 such days in a typical year. On the early side but when we frame it recently, it looks normal. Average first date 1961-1990: 23rd April 1991-2020: 15th April 2017-2026: 4th April #climate

Nice evening for a stroll a jacket definitely needed now though. Classic spring weather. #Docklands #Rotherhithe

Chance we will be threatening 26C in London area tomorrow. Exceptional early warmth. It appears quite likely we will see a record for earliest 25C at #London Heathrow (1948-present) eclipsing 9th April 2017 by 1 day… (1/2)

Lovely sunny day ☀️ widely breaking 70F to the south and west of London down into Devon with a freshening E’ly breeze.

On latest modelling it now looks SE will have squeezed another warm day on Thursday with sunny spells. Cold front not arriving till late, dramatically cooler for most.

As many head back to work tomorrow the weather will be smiling. Widespread blue skies across England & Wales and becoming quite warm. Highs of 21C/70F likely in London area, more like early June than April, fresher in east with SE'ly winds off cool North Sea to blame.

We’re heading for a powerful El Niño event developing in coming months. Potential for it to become strongest on record alongside 1982, 1997 and 2015. Not what Earth needs, global sea surface temperatures remain high despite weak La Niña over winter. (1/2)

Plotted is the yearly date (1949-2025) of first ≥25C (77F) temperature at London, Heathrow Airport. As what has become evident, it has got earlier and earlier the 1961-1990 average first 25c was 3rd June on 1991-2020 climatology it's 14th May. (1/2)

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Frost looks quite extensive tonight out of major town and cities. Very light winds in SE by dawn possible localised mist/fog clearing quickly. Eatster Monday will be a belter with highs of 16C in London ☀️