Originally Posted by mushymanrob:
“indeed, theres now looking like a gradual slide away from this very warm/hot humid weather as the high to our east declines, but never goes, not yet anyway.
anomaly charts suggest a more westerly component to our mean upper flow by later next week but with high to our near southeast. temps should be down towards average but remaining just above? but fresher less humid air and it must be said that we are unlikely to get temps as high as todays max again this year. (thats unlikely but not impossible!)”
Your post from this time last week.
We might not see the temperature reached in Kent yesterday afternoon for a couple or more summers. It might be the 20's (

) before we do again, if the next three summers are poor to average. I have found this summer 2016 to be a very peculiar one that has ended up defying an easy description.
Coming in yesterday evening shortly before 6.30pm it was still blazing hot sunshine with the sun obviously lower in the sky than earlier in the summer, but still very sunny and bright, along with the warmth. What struck me vividly was that it went from that to almost dark with lights on within the hour. Such are the joys of a September heatwave. You can't defy the time of year and it makes you forget that you won't have a lovely long bright evening to go with it.