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Sea breeze convergence very visible along the coast today - collision of these differing wind directions helping generate enough lift for some heavy showers in far SE Kent.

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Hurn recorded 381.1 hours of sunshine on the Kipp & Zonen recorder in July; this, corrected for a Campbell Stokes recorder, looks to be over 400 hours of sunshine - without doubt, the sunniest ever month recorded for any UK station on record. An absolutely extraordinary July.

July recorded no measurable rainfall here in Herne Bay, the driest month on record since April 2007 and what looks to be the driest July on record

Sea breeze convergence may help to trigger more showers and thunderstorms in the far SE during the course of this afternoon - conditions may be right for funnel clouds to be spotted under the low lying bases of any showers that do develop, already one spotted in Margate.

Funnel cloud seen from Margate this morning

Well sculpted cirrus above my head here in Herne Bay as strong SW’ly upper level winds (500 hPa winds are around 40 knots) are in place which helps to stretch and elongate the cloud.

The previous maximum temperature of 36.1ºC at Gosport, Fleetlands on the 24th of June appears to have been rejected, with the next hottest [36ºC at Wisley] accepted instead, based on the Met Office's daily weather summary for June. Two date records for June now held at Wisley.

It seems very likely that Hurn (with corrections) will have broken the old UK sunshine record - the median corrected estimate looks to be 396 hours of sunshine, beating the Eastbourne record by just under 13 hours to the 30th. The sunniest month at any UK station in 115 years.

Absolutely stunning horizon sunset glow this evening

A neat area of drought-ending rainfall is moving through in these clumps of showers this evening - Canvey to Southend seem to be the next target area

The temperature trace showing 38ºC being reached at the Lingwood site just after 13:30 UTC on the 26th of June - the site was accepted as its representative of a wooded area with artificial surfaces and heat sources not being a limiting factor, shading was within 'Satisfactory'.

Weather event verification reports are out for the June heatwave - will have a look through properly soon to see if there's anything of interest. For now, here are the sites at Hastings, Tenby, Hawarden Airport and Lingwood from the reports.

The sea breeze never really arrived here today - up to 34.2°C and still around 27°C now.

35.2ºC at Writtle is a date record for the 29th of July by 0.8ºC [34.4ºC, Perdiswell in 1948] - the 7th day this year that UK temperatures have exceeded or equalled 35ºC, beating the old record of 5 days in 1976 and 2020. We're up to 31 days of ≥30ºC temperatures as well.

The increase in the Lingwood value is likely due to this oversight by the observer - as far as I'm aware, the maximum and minimum temperatures are read by scrolling through the graph. The observer looks to have just missed the higher peak, so the reading has increased to 38ºC.

The Met Office has confirmed new temperature records for the June heatwave: UK and England June highest daily maximum temperature: 38.0°C, Lingwood, 26 June 2026. UK and England June highest daily minimum temperature: 23.2°C, Hastings, 26 June 2026.

That Charlwood chestnut again, 32.6ºC being reported whilst Gatwick is at 29ºC

32.5°C just slightly inland of the seafront here in Herne Bay - it is definitely hot.

It's a toasty morning I must say - sea breeze kicking in will be nice whenever it does 😁

Altocumulus and crepuscular rays at sunset tonight here in Herne Bay.