What temperatures do you get during heat waves in the UK?

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I've heard that London can surprise it's tourists by having occasional heat waves during Summer during some years gone past. What kind of temperatures are we talking about during these heatwaves? Here in New Zealand at the moment it was 35 degrees celsius on parts of the East Coast of the North Island yesterday & in Adelaide, Australia it was 45 degrees yesterday. I take it your heat waves would be nothing like that?

Just curious. Thanks.
 
It's pretty cold here, except for the odd heatwave and at the peak of summer.
 
No more that about 35 degrees centigrade last hot summer was late July 2006.

2008 was mostly cold and wet. Flash flooding is becoming a problem

Anything over 26 degrees and we complain.
 
It can get into the mid thirties sometimes.

Anything above 15 and I get uncomfortable, I am from the North East of England.
 
Sparky is correct, 38.1deg 2003 in the town of Gravesend, Kent, the significance of this is that it was the first time anywhere in the UK that the temperature exceeded 100deg Farenheit.

The most prolonged heatwave I can remember was in 1976, when daytime temperatures were in the 30's for several weeks, often in the high 30's. There was very little rain and, at times, fires were breaking out spontaneously. The phrase 'as brown as grass' came into common useage!

But temperatures like this are very unusual. I would say that, usually, summer temperatures are between 20 and 25, with only a few days approaching the 30 mark each year.
 
The record high was in 2003 and was 38.1C

That was unusual though. A hot summer would usually have highs in the of 30-33 C in London.
 
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