Well we got a brief shower yesterday morning then the sun beamed out for the rest of the day and we got 29C. In a typical summer of the past that would have been our hottest day. Yesterday, 34 recording stations beat the UK temperature record, and the hottest spot beat it by 1.6 degrees C. That was Coningsby at 40.3C.

We've had less than a quarter of an inch of rain here in Bude since late June, and we've had a lot of hot, sunny, windy weather that has parched everything. It doesn't feel much like our Cornwall climate. There's hardly any rain in our forecast for the foreseeable future.