On Monday the heat grew throughout the day with a maximum of 28.6C late in the afternoon at 17.46.
The wind was light meandering between north and north east with a maximum gust of 11mph but mostly around 4-7mph.
The air is notably very dry from this direction and with little rain this month the ground has no surface moisture. The humidity has varied between 67% and 74% on recent mornings with it normally in the 90s.
The thermometer fell to 9.1C at 05.12 before the sun got to work and raised this to 19.8C at 08.00, the warmest morning at this time since 9th July.
Monday gave us 16.68 hours of wall to wall sunshine bringing the total for June to 165 hours. The sun triggered the sunshine recorder at 05.39 this morning and continues to shine.
Tuesday update at 14.30: temperature of 27.6 with extremely low humidity at this time of just 29%.
Update at 16.15: temperature eased up to 28.4C.
Update at 18.00: maximum temperature of 28.7C at 17.47,which was 0.1C higher than on Monday.