CambridgeWeatherUK

An interest in the weather...especially super cold and snowy and super hot and humid

[CambridgeWeatherUK @CamWeatherUK]

@TheSnowDreamer Have you got the graph that shows how many days the UK has reached 30C by year? Want to see how we already compare

[CambridgeWeatherUK @CamWeatherUK]

@TheSnowDreamer Must just be because of the extra flights these days ;)

[Met Office @metoffice]

Today is now the hottest day in May on record for both England and Wales with Kew Gardens provisionally reaching 35.1°C and Cardiff Bute Park reaching 32.9°C 🌡️

[CambridgeWeatherUK @CamWeatherUK]

@Petagna What was it this time yesterday?

[Met Office @metoffice]

Today has been the hottest day in May on record with Kew Gardens provisionally reaching 34.8°C - exceeding the previous highest May temperature in the UK by a full 2 degrees Celsius🌡️

This heat would be exceptional in the UK even in mid summer, let alone in May📈

[Met Office @metoffice]

It's been the hottest day of 2024 so far with 34.8°C recorded in Cambridge today 🌡️

Provisionally this is only the 11th year since 1961 temperatures as high as this have been recorded

8 of those years have been since 2000 and 6 of them have been in the last decade 📈

[A Cambridge Diary @acambridgediary]

A picture of Cambridge every day since 2010. (No 5000) Tuesday 5th December 2023.
So here it is - my final picture of uninterrupted daily photographs of Cambridge - 5,000 consecutive posts over 13 years. I’m sure you’ll forgive the fact that it wasn’t taken today but a week ago today when the full moon eased itself between the turrets of an illuminated King’s College Chapel. I knew the moment I pressed the shutter that I wanted it to be the last photograph of my daily pictures not just because this frame is undoubtedly the most recognisable view in Cambridge but because for me the full moon symbolises a moment of release and completion and a time to sit in the fullness of life and feel grateful for my blessings. The full moon is also associated with madness, of which I must have had a portion to have stuck with this for so long!
I’d like to thank you all for your likes, comments and stories along the way - you have made A Cambridge Diary a heartwarming community and a place to share memories with Cambridge folk both from the town and the university. Most of all I’d like to thank everyone who has appeared in my pictures over the past thirteen years: the bikers, bowlers and buskers; the carpenters, choristers, clothiers and constables; the dancers, diners and dog-walkers; the entertainers and extras; the gardeners and graduates; the kayakers; the lecturers and lingerie models; the painters, parents, pensioners, porters, praelectors, proctors, professors and punters; the readers, revellers, rowers and runners; the scaffolders, scullers, singers, skateboarders, soldiers, stonemasons, strollers, students and swimmers; the tourists and touts; the walkers and workers. I’d also like to thank the cats, dogs, ducks, rabbits, squirrels and swans, and Queen Elizabeth I and His Holiness the Dalai Lama. To you all, my sincere thanks.
Whilst this is my final daily picture it doesn’t mean the end of A Cambridge Diary as I’ll still be posting my pictures from five and ten years ago and I’m sure there will be the occasional new picture popping up now and then - just not every day. Oh, and I still have to walk home don’t I?
Love to all
Martin

[CambridgeWeatherUK @CamWeatherUK]

@TheSnowDreamer When was the last time the #hottestdayoftheyear wasn't in a Summer month?

[CambridgeWeatherUK @CamWeatherUK]

@Official_WXUK Do you have the list of first 20C by date each year?

[CambridgeWeatherUK @CamWeatherUK]

@bbcweather Spain has had a warmer than average winter

[CambridgeWeatherUK @CamWeatherUK]

@sdantwx Does he call himself 'junkscience' ironically one wonders...

[CambridgeWeatherUK @CamWeatherUK]

@Stephencheatley I'm more concerned about the mum of 5 dying after eating a vegan

[CambridgeWeatherUK @CamWeatherUK]

@MeteoAtlas Furthest north 40C that is!

[CambridgeWeatherUK @CamWeatherUK]

@MeteoAtlas Do you know what was the furthest north before yesterday?

[Cam Botanic Garden @CUBotanicGarden]

We’ve just taken our reading for yesterday’s temp (19 July)

It reached 39.9 degrees C at 2.02pm

This beats our previous record high of 38.7 degrees C 25 July 2019.

The highest temp recorded yesterday in the UK was 40.3 degrees C at Conningsby, Lincs
#Heatwave2022

[CambridgeWeatherUK @CamWeatherUK]

A historic day in weather history is over. The first day the UK reached 40C. But this is just the start of the #climatecrisis. Tonight I'm thinking of the people who have lost everything in the fires. I'm also going back into my Twitter retirement. Much love xx

[Cambs Libraries @cambslib]

Looking for a free air conditioned space to cool off today?
Histon Library 2pm - 5pm
Great Shelford 10am-1pm & 2-5pm
Huntingdon, St. Ives, Ely, Ramsey libraries open until 5pm
Wisbech open until 7pm
Milton Road Library open as self service until 5pm.
#CoolLibraries

[CambridgeWeatherUK @CamWeatherUK]

40.2C at Heathrow. Incredible.

#heatwave #UKheatwave

[CambridgeWeatherUK @CamWeatherUK]

Not even midday and the UK record temperature falls. An incredible day in the UK. Scary to think how high these temperatures will go this afternoon.

[Met Office @metoffice]

🌡️ A temperature of 39.1°C has provisionally been recorded at Charlwood, Surrey

If confirmed this will be the highest temperature ever recorded in the UK⚠️

Temperatures are likely to rise further through today 📈

#heatwave #heatwave2022

[CambridgeWeatherUK @CamWeatherUK]

@Petagna Are records kept of the highest ever temperatures at 9am, 10am, 11am, 12pm etc? Just wondering how the heating today and tomorrow I'll compare with 2003 and 2019