MetJam

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Jamie. BSc Environmental Science Student at University of Reading. Communications Director @ TORRO Avid weather nut from coastal Kent doing weather updates for the SE. Space weather & astronomy thrown in whenever that looks interesting too! metjam.co.uk

Scatter chart of July sunshine totals at Hurn, Dorset, 1969–2026, in hours. Grey points show Campbell–Stokes readings to 2003; dark red points show Kipp & Zonen readings from 2004, scaled by 1.1 to Campbell–Stokes equivalent. Values range from 142 hours in 1978 to 338 hours in 2006, around a 1969–2025 mean of 230 hours. A LOWESS trend line rises gradually from about 223 to 245 hours across the record. An amber dashed line marks the UK monthly record of 383.9 hours at Eastbourne in July 1911. July 2026 is shown with two stars for the total to 22 July - 281 hours uncorrected and 309 hours corrected - each joined by a vertical bar to a diamond marking the month-end projection using multi-model daily forecasts: 382 hours uncorrected, just below the Eastbourne record, and 410 hours corrected, above it. Both projections far exceed any previous July at Hurn.
Map of UK daily maximum temperatures on 19 July 2022 from HadUK-Grid 1 km data. A cyan hatched area covering 29,118 km² of central and eastern England exceeded 38.7°C, the previous all-time UK record. A zoomed panel shows a star near Lincoln marking Coningsby, which reached 40.3°C - a new UK all-time record. The record-breaking zone stretches from the Thames Estuary through Lincolnshire, with the northernmost exceedance near Middlesbrough.
Two-panel map titled "UK Peak Daily Maximum Temperature — June 2026, HadUK-Grid 1 km provisional data". The left panel shows the whole UK coloured by each grid cell's highest daily maximum temperature during June 2026, ranging from around 12–15°C in the Scottish Highlands (green) to over 35°C across southern and eastern England (deep red). A cyan hatched area covering 23,444 km² of East Anglia, the East Midlands and the London area marks where temperatures exceeded 35.6°C, outlined by a dark teal contour line; a legend identifies both. The right panel zooms into East Anglia and South East England with labelled towns from Boston and King's Lynn down to Brighton and Dover, plus temperature contour lines every 0.5–1°C. Nearly all of Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridgeshire and Essex sit inside the record-exceeding area. A white star east of Norwich marks Lingwood, labelled 37.7°C on 26 June 2026 - a new UK June temperature record.
Line chart titled "UK Daily Maximum Temperature — 2026," running from 1 January to 12 July 2026. Daily maximum temperature in °C is plotted on the y-axis against date on the x-axis as a thin dark grey line, generally rising from single digits in January to a summer peak. A dashed horizontal reference line marks 30°C, and days at or above that threshold are marked with dark red dots. Five clusters of red dots stand out: a 6-day spell from 23–28 May peaking at 35.1°C; a single day on 30 May at 30.3°C; a single day on 19 June at 31.2°C; a 7-day spell from 21–27 June peaking at 37.7°C on 26 June (the highest point on the chart); and an 8-day spell from 5–12 July peaking at 35.5°C on 9 July, still ongoing at the right edge of the chart at 32.6°C.