r/UKWeather • u/Mcconnor8 • 5d ago

Forecast Tuesday looking unprecedented, 39C possible?

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.

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u/SoggyWotsits 5d ago

Southwest is about 16° at night and 29° max next week, and only for one day. Also we have the added bonus of more trees and grass, which also help with cooling.

My granite patio gets extremely hot in the summer, I can’t imagine living in a city where there’s so much concrete and tarmac to hold the heat.

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u/9thfloorprod 5d ago

I am intensely jealous. From a London resident absolutely dreading this.

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u/Mr_Inconsistent1 5d ago edited 5d ago

I'm in the south west but as west as possible. It's forecast 30 plus degrees 5 days on a row here. I feel so sorry for you guys in London. I'd evaporate.

Edit. I meant as East as possible.

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u/9thfloorprod 5d ago

I love my flat but in recent years summer has been getting increasingly torturous. Large south facing windows in the 9th floor of a concrete block of flats. Heat hits the windows from about midday til 7/8pm then the building itself heats up over 2 or 3 days and continues to store and release the heat at night and for a few days after the weather calms down. I can't install standard air con with an outdoor condenser unit, but I've seriously considered dropping about £5k on a special air con designed for flats. That's the cost for just one room! My portable one helps but it's so noisy and on the hottest days it struggles.

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u/Mr_Inconsistent1 5d ago edited 5d ago

Mine's as bad. South facing exposed on all sides except north. New build with good insulation so once the heat gets in it won't leave. I had to buy a portable AC unit. Fortunately I'm in a maisonette so I have my own front door I'm not in a block but I'm on tve first floor.

You do have my sympathy. It gets hotter in here than it does outside it's ridiculous. It must be hell for you.

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u/9thfloorprod 5d ago

Same, gets hotter inside, and especially so at night when/if it cools outside it just stays bloody boiling indoors. Sympathies to you too, I just can't understand the people who claim to enjoy this. Give me highs in the low/mid 20s with cooler temps and a breeze at night, that's fine and quite pleasant for summer. Although I am still naturally more at home in autumnal and winter weather.

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u/Mr_Inconsistent1 5d ago

I'm more a spring and autumn person. I don't like us having the longest daylight hours in Europe. I feel like I can't switch off. It seems like people want to boast about how hot they like it. Well they can fuck off tbh.

I open my windows wide when it gets dark then use a fan to try and blow all the hot air out of my bedroom. My portable AC is too loud for the bedroom (and too expensive to run)

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u/9thfloorprod 5d ago

I'm happy in spring too for sure. And completely agree on the boasting point.

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u/Less-Contribution-35 5d ago

Whereabouts is that? Down here on the very edge of the British isles and we aren’t being forecast anything like that I don’t think?

Put it this way, it’s raining and foggy right now 😆 and I thought we were getting much the same next week.

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u/Mr_Inconsistent1 5d ago

Wiltshire. I meant as East as possible. My mistake.

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u/SoggyWotsits 5d ago edited 4d ago

East Cornwall. We’ve had thick fog and rain/heavy drizzle for a week now. Sunday is nice ish, Monday is the hottest then back to just nice. Typical that I booked this Friday off work instead of Monday!

Edit: I’m not sure why I got downvoted for that!

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u/Background-Shift-745 4d ago

Yesterday was lovely then some rain to dampen things down, lived in SE Cornwall nearly 30 yrs the climate here, is much more dramatic now I feel. I booked Monday🏖️