Yet more heavy showers today brings the month total to 19.1mm, the wettest opening 4 days to September locally for 27 years!

Flagpole at the bottom of a garden of a house in East Ham. These were once common but most have rotted away over the decades. Proud dockers and other local workers would fly a Union Jack during national events. Nothing new here - everything’s a cycle. @mrjamesob.bsky.social

Nice patch of asperitas in this cloud.

16.6mm of rain overnight, the greatest 09-09 fall since January 4th, the night the rain turned to snow.

Too much rain last year, not enough this year... 'The challenge is these weather extremes . . . are becoming more pronounced and more regular,' said Jamie Burrows, crops board chair at the National Farmers’ Union. www.ft.com/content/7376...

The 86th anniversary of this awful tragedy. wansteadmeteo.com/2013/08/01/l...

Just two days in the hot spell made the 23.5C cut. Despite the hype it felt a bit Championship quality rather than Premier League. wansteadmeteo.com/2015/06/26/p...

Yesterday's max of 32.2C at #Sheffield was the hottest at that station this year. In fact it was the 15th hottest in a record back to 1882 - higher than anything recorded in 1976.

Cloud and thunderstorm put a cap on temps yesterday, pausing the heatwave locally as a two-day wonder. Notably hot elsewhere of course. wansteadmeteo.com/2015/06/26/p...

A high of 32.2C today, a tiny, tiny fraction of being 90Fahrenheit on the nose.

30.8C the high today, the first >30C for 24 days and the tenth this year - that's the most 30C in a year since 2018. For >30C 2025 is currently running 4th=

I’ve rarely seen such an abundant crop on virtually every fruit tree. A calm, sunny spring ensured few blossoms were disturbed. Does it mean a harsh winter? No, but it is testament to the spring just mentioned.

Took me three years to get here but I’ve finally seen Sheffield weather station in Weston Park on the day my daughter graduated last week.

Another 5.8mm of rain yesterday brought the 48hr total here to: 11.8mm Interesting the rainfall event was a convergence line with much less either side. Heathrow: 13.6mm Holland Park: 36.2mm And looked at nationwide the event was a spine, south to north.

With the Arome model going for 32mm from the #thunderstorms I've produced another top 10, this one for July deluges since 1959.

Good old-fashioned thunderstorms have been on a bit of a hiatus the last couple of years. wansteadmeteo.com/2013/06/29/w...

A high of 31.6C, the 9th >30C day this year. A 'real scorcher' they used to call 'em. Here's the top 10 of 'scorchers' back to 1959.

Labour and Redbridge’s terrible marshalling of SEND makes Private Eye. Hopefully the time for accountability is fast approaching.

Yes, the heat over the weekend wasn't anything special in the SE (for a change). But look at the anomlies in Aviemore. +13.8C and then +11.7C! To put that into context the 40.1C recorded here on July 19th 2022 was 12.1C above average (using 10-year averages)

St Swithin's Day next week. But don't worry - it's very unreliable. wansteadmeteo.com/2015/07/14/f...

Wispy clouds dusted red at sunset, the end of a perfect summer’s day. Hard to believe but 25.2C was as good as it got during some summers in the Seventies and Eighties.

Mothership lands on the Walkie Talkie.

This year is still leading the pack for very warm days. Just. A couple of days in the pits, however, will see 1976 nose ahead this week.

Today marks the 29th anniversary that Cliff Richard serenaded a rain-soaked Centre Court. The weather at Wimbledon that year was totally different to this year, the average max for the fortnight was barely 20C.

The 5-day heatwave places 6th in the all-time list back to 1852. wansteadmeteo.com/2015/06/26/p...

Now up to 35.2C! Sixth highest July maximum. You have to look down to 15th place now for a 1976 entry!

The current heatwave is 4 days old (to 1000 today) and would now sit 13th in the most potent list. It will move up to at least 8th by tomorrow. wansteadmeteo.com/2015/06/26/p...

The mean for June finished 20C, that's 4C above average and the warmest June on record, increasing the one set two years ago by 0.6C!

19.9C the low in Wanstead, missing out on a tropical night by 0.1C. And that's the second warmest June night back to 1960 here. 22.4C at Heathrow and 22C at St James's Park, however, would constitute new records for June. wansteadmeteo.com/2018/06/06/l...

Today's high of 32.6C ranks just outside the hottest June days since 1960. But the 34.1C recorded on 21st ranks 4th. Notice 1976 still has 4 entries in the top 10.

Clearly need to update this - there's been 5 new entries in the top 10 since 2018, the most recent being 34.1C last Saturday. wansteadmeteo.com/2018/06/06/l...

Min a tad lower overnight: 17.9C. Yesterday was the third day running the mean has reached 23.5C - enough to start considering this spell for the Premier League of heatwaves but a figure of 24.6C leaves this spell so far as close but no cigar (yet). wansteadmeteo.com/2015/06/26/p...

A high of 31.5C today. The mean for June has actually nudged higher from the prvisional stat a few days ago. A mean of 20.1C would be 0.7C up on June 2023. That month beat the 1976 record by just 0.1C. Records seem to go by larger margins now, not the incremental levels of old.

30.2C the high so far, that's the 4th 30C day so far this year, already more than all of last summer. By the same date in 1976 there had been 7 BUT that summer was very isolated in terms of heat. So to all those banging on about 1976 here's a stark graph.

This one seems to have conveniently slipped under the radar of local news. The entire village of #Littlebredy near #Bridport #Dorset is being evicted after the anonymous new owner bought the estate last autumn. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Tropical nights in East Yorkshire. A mate of mine has just turned up and said it was a good day if you made 20C during the DAY in Bridlington in summer during the Seventies.

Yet another warm one today: 28.5C. If the Met Office modelled temperatures to the end of the month are right this June is going to finish the hottest on record, in a local series back to 1797!!

Yet another >27C day today - there's already been 12 so far this year. The same total recorded during ALL years (1/1-24/6) 1977 to 1991. 'It's going to be 80F this weekend!!' was a very rare exclamation growing up in the Seventies/Eighties. I find how hot the weather *usually* is now mind boggling.

The 40.1C record during the hot spell in July 2022 bizarrely fell short of heatwave index criteria of a 23.5C mean temperature, three days running. So a #heatspike not #heatwave, this time round. Of course the heat returned in Aug 2022 wansteadmeteo.com/2015/06/26/p...

Think these new appliances are about to have a very busy summer. www.ft.com/content/fe84...

Average maxima for June to the 17th is already sitting 10th, this before any real >30C heat has got going. Notice it is 0.1C above 1976!

Congested airspace in the Middle East as airliners give Iran and Israel a wide berth.

Temp up to 29.1C so far, the hottest day of the year so far locally.

This happened in Redbridge 122 years ago this weekend. And the atmosphere is once again looking disturbed. wansteadmeteo.com/2014/06/18/j...

The mean for May finished 14.9C, 1.8C above average (12th mildest to 1797) Rainfall was 15.7mm, 31% of average, the driest May for 5 years (20th driest to 1797). Interestingly it finished slightly drier than 1976 (15.9mm)!!

These disasters look like they'll become common. Thankfully majority of governments fund geologists (take note Trump). "Switzerland saw 4% of its total glacier volume disappear in 2023. That was the second-biggest decline in a single year after a 6% drop in 2022." apnews.com/article/swit...

A warm end to May has notched up the month anomaly to 1.8C. After some respite the never ending warmth seems back...

Another 1.2mm of rain overnight. There's been just 9.2mm in total this month which is just 18% of the May average. In terms of spring rainfall this one is still sitting third driest locally to 1961.

6.2mm of rain overnight, a useful amount and the first decent fall for 31 days.

This spring is still sitting 3rd driest since 1961 to 21/5. In terms of the top 20, seven of the following summers feature in the most notable heatwave list. wansteadmeteo.com/2015/06/26/p...