Wow! What a scorcher!!

[Asterix, the former Gaul.]

Ditto.

22c max today.

[rafletcher]

Warm, sunny and humid here in leafy Bucks.

[numbnuts]

Cloudy and 29c in Southampton

[Jaded]

Hot today!

[SteveC]

I've come indoors to cool off. It's only 80ºF in here.

[phantasmagoriana]

Really quite pleasant here now. Warm but not hot, and the sun's out! Even rode my bike this morning...

[Thor]

Hot in Herts.  Yesterday, some wag decided to set fire to hay bales, a few miles away.  Opening windows to cool the house in the evening was thus rendered inadvisable 

[Wowbagger]

Maximum of 33.5°C yesterday in Saarfend. Minimum of 21.7°C overnight. Maximum today 31.7°C. That has now dropped to 27°.

I'm cooking curry.

[Chris S]

It's cooled down a lot here - probably around 20 now. It's nice

[rafletcher]

Hot in Herts.  Yesterday, some wag decided to set fire to hay bales, a few miles away.  Opening windows to cool the house in the evening was thus rendered inadvisable 

That looks like (illegal) stubble burning.

[quixoticgeek]

We had a few spots of rain... Which drove the humidity up a bit...

Humidity is now 49.5%...

Temp is 29.8°C...

Inside my flat...

At midnight...

J

[TimC]

Maximum of 33.5°C yesterday in Saarfend. Minimum of 21.7°C overnight. Maximum today 31.7°C. That has now dropped to 27°.

I'm cooking curry.

I did the same. It was damn fine! Sleeping may be even more of an issue than I'd anticipated...

[chrisbainbridge]

Warm overnight but has suddenly dropped with cloud and wind. Much more pleasant.

[Chris S]

Warm overnight but has suddenly dropped with cloud and wind. Much more pleasant.

Been like that here (Durham) all day - I doubt we even made 20c here today. Plenty sunny on and off, but no warmth to it at all.

[ElyDave]

Breezy yesterday which was nice, but still blooming warm.

I'm planning an early ride to Suffolk today, see if its any cooler over there.

[ian]

Gave in trying to sleep in the bedroom last night and relocated to the sofa bed in my office downstairs. When I checked it was 31.8 degrees upstairs...

That fat bolus of heat just sits up there, even opening all the windows doesn't seem to prove any encouragement for the air to move at all. It just sits there like a fat man on a sofa with an infinite supply of Pringles.

Downstairs, opening the windows and patio door creates an actual cool(er) breeze.

[Cudzoziemiec]

Cool and overcast this morning but you can feel it's going to be really hot later. Getting sunny now. Summer as it ought to be!

[Mr Larrington]

Gave in trying to sleep in the bedroom last night and relocated to the sofa bed in my office downstairs. When I checked it was 31.8 degrees upstairs...

That fat bolus of heat just sits up there, even opening all the windows doesn't seem to prove any encouragement for the air to move at all. It just sits there like a fat man on a sofa with an infinite supply of Pringles.

Downstairs, opening the windows and patio door creates an actual cool(er) breeze.

Hot air rises, or at least it's supposed to.  It should sidle up the Grand Escalier, into the Great Bedchamber and out of the Velux window.  Hopefully broiling a few pigeons on the way out.  So why doesn’t it?  Bain't be natural.

[ian]

It's just that it fails to move. Open all the windows, turn on the fans, and nothing happens. Downstairs, open windows, a magic breeze. The Asbestos Palace had a well-insulated attic, cavity wall, insulation, double-glazing etc. There's an actual thermocline as you ascend the stairs.

That said, it was still north of 26 degrees downstairs this morning. I did wake up expecting to be face-to-face with one of the garden foxes as I left the patio door open all night.

Currently heading towards 30 degrees in the Remote Command Centre. I am so glad I paid more for the insulated ceiling...

[Regulator]

It's currently 32C.  I'm off to Tesco - I hope their air con is working...

[T42]

Last time I looked it was 35° outside. It's a pleasant 29° in my office.  We have four fans going shuttling air around this floor, so with all the windows shut the O2 & humidity are getting evenly distributed, more or less.

[Mr Larrington]

Lacking as I do any means of taking the temperature of the Estate office I can only note that, while I managed five and a half hours of keyboard-bashing on Friday, today I gave up after three and a bit.

[hellymedic]

I think upstairs rooms get hotter both because hot air rises and because they have solar gain for a greater proportion of the day.

A low sun won't shine on shaded rooms downstairs.

[Mr Larrington]

Having a black slate roof probably doesn’t help…

[Asterix, the former Gaul.]

Our house used to get very hot. We have just replaced the south-facing flat roof of our extension with a very well insulated pitched roof(2 layers of 200mm) The difference is huge and very welcome. Well worth the expense.