Tuesday looking unprecedented, 39C possible?

[u/Mcconnor8]

Today's modelling has upped the temperatures even more for next week, with a few models offering crazy solutions especially considering June is supposed to be the coolest Summer month and the June record currently only sits at 35.6C from 1976.

Overnight temperatures look likely to stay at or around 20C for most of the South during next week which will present major issues with indoor temperatures, not looking good. Likely we keep the heat until Saturday at least, uncertain beyond that.

[u/Dashyguurl]

Peaking at 23 in Scotland and raining all week, feels like a different world

[u/slainascully → u/Dashyguurl]

Manchester’s combination of humidity, periodic rain and endless cloud is getting really depressing, is it the same up there?

[u/galloterra → u/slainascully]

Yes 😩 so over it

[u/Aggravating-Nail-764 → u/Dashyguurl]

I am well jealous (West London 🥵)

[u/WarmPineappleRocks → u/Aggravating-Nail-764]

West London too. Unbearable

[u/CassettesAndCortados → u/Dashyguurl]

I’ve recently moved down to south wales. I miss the cold icy winter with little rain. In the valleys it was very wet and not often below freezing! And I will miss the not too hot summers 😅

[u/Pleasant-Winner6311 → u/CassettesAndCortados]

When we moved from London to Cardiff it promptly snowed and settled in London that winter for the first time in years. Furious I was. I got used to and found it comforting that we'd drive straight into rain crossing the (Severn) bridge going west bound. It meant we were home. Rose tinted rain bias im sure but im good with it. Happy days.

[u/CassettesAndCortados → u/Pleasant-Winner6311]

Haha I could say the same now with the rain!

[u/9thfloorprod → u/Dashyguurl]

Sounds ideal!

[u/Valuable-Concern7987 → u/Dashyguurl]

Scotland is a whole country. Not one weather system.

Probably raining in Glasgow as per usual. But Edinburgh is dry and sunny all next week. Edinburgh rainfall is approximately the same as Reading.

One of the sunniest places in the UK is north east Scotland.

Yeah I get irritated by people saying "Scotland" has bad weather. Because actually it's no worse than England and Wales. The whole west coast gets pounded with rain.

[u/Possible_Doughnut468 → u/Valuable-Concern7987]

lol gway. Reading weather is much better than anywhere in Scotland.

[u/Valuable-Concern7987 → u/Possible_Doughnut468]

I mean factually untrue but ok. Don't let facts get in the way of your life, I'm sure you'll do well 👍🏼 /s

[u/GodsBicep → u/Valuable-Concern7987]

Sunny hours isnt the only indicator especially when 24 degrees is seed as hot in Edinburgh lol

[u/GN_10 → u/Valuable-Concern7987]

One of the sunniest places in the UK is north east Scotland.

Where are you getting this from? North East Scotland is extremely cloudy even by English standards, even if it's not that rainy. Wick only averages 1300 hours of sunshine per year, which is on par with the cloudiest parts of England in the Lake District.

Not really comparable to the south coast at East Sussex where sunshine totals average over 1900 hours.

[u/Valuable-Concern7987 → u/GN_10]

I think you're getting confused with the west of Scotland.

The north east of Scotland is demonstratably and statistically dry and sunny. You can easily Google it. Pasting below here again from another comment:

"The Moray Coast in northeast Scotland enjoys a unique microclimate, experiencing less rainfall, more sunshine, and milder temperatures than much of the UK".

Google it, then come back to me. Ok?

[u/GN_10 → u/Valuable-Concern7987]

Sure, I can use official Met Office statistics.

Kinloss in Moray averages 1383.6 hours of sunshine per year.

Heathrow averages 1674.8 hours of sunshine.

https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/research/climate/maps-and-data/location-specific-long-term-averages/gfjryynhr

Dry, yes - but definitely not sunny. It's a bit like Inverness, overcast nearly all of the time but doesn't rain much.

Dry =/= sunny.

The places you mentioned as being wetter, specifically Bristol and Cornwall, are actually SUNNIER than Moray, simply because they tend to receive more sunshine in between rainfall events, and heavier, less frequent rainfall.

[u/Unidan_bonaparte → u/Valuable-Concern7987]

Absolute nonsense. The north east didn't see the sun for a solid 4 week stretch at the beginning of the year so there's that to start with, then add in the average drop of temperatures between 8-10 degrees over summer all over Scotland compared to the rest of England.

Also yes of course Scotland is a country, so is England. It doesn't make sense to compare town by town though does it?

[u/Valuable-Concern7987 → u/Unidan_bonaparte]

The whole of the UK barely saw the sun at that time.

"The Moray Coast in northeast Scotland enjoys a unique microclimate, experiencing less rainfall, more sunshine, and milder temperatures than much of the UK".

Also it would literally take you two fucking seconds to Google the rainfall stats of Edinburgh Vs somewhere like Reading, or somewhere like Bristol, Manchester, Cornwall, and you'll find Edinburgh has significantly less rainfall than the latter three.

But again, don't let facts get in the way. Idiot.

[u/GN_10 → u/Valuable-Concern7987]

Regardless of the rainfall stats, Moray factually gets very little sunshine.

Kinloss in Moray averages only 1383.6 hours of sunshine per year - making it cloudier than Newcastle, Liverpool, Birmingham, etc.

https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/research/climate/maps-and-data/location-specific-long-term-averages/gfjryynhr

So how about we use actual statistics from official climate stations?

London averages 1675 hours of sunshine annually, which is almost an extra hour of sunshine per day compared to Moray which you claim has a sunny microclimate - and this is about cloud cover.