Highest temperature in London on August 9?

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Market context

The settling event is the **highest temperature recorded at London City Airport** in the Weather Underground daily observations for 9 August 2026, so the practical task is to monitor the raw station table rather than headline weather summaries. For a programmatic workflow, that means polling the daily observations feed, extracting the maximum Celsius reading, and mapping it to the market’s discrete temperature bands only after the final datapoint for the date is published.

Historically, London can produce large August upside on hot synoptic setups, but the distribution is still tightly clustered around the low 30s rather than the high 30s. The market’s own live pricing has recently centred on **31°C** with **32°C** the main alternative, while broader London records show August extremes above 38°C are rare and usually associated with exceptional heatwaves rather than an ordinary warm spell.[1][10][15] Recent local reporting and forecast material pointed to sunny conditions and a near-32°C peak in London on 9 August, which is consistent with why traders have treated the 31–32°C bins as the key resolution area.[1][6][13]

For traders using bots, alerts, or conditional orders, the main catalysts are the midday and afternoon station updates, not the generic city forecast. A small adjustment in the final hourly observation can move the resolved band if the reading sits close to a threshold, and Weather Underground’s own rule is that later revisions count only until the first datapoint for the next day appears.[1] That makes the operational edge straightforward: watch for the final London City Airport observation, compare it against the active bracket, and only then size any last-minute position changes.

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Methodology

We track Highest temperature in London on August 9? across the five venues with material prediction-market liquidity. The probability shown is the live Polymarket mid; the comparison rows summarise how each venue treats the underlying contract — fees, KYC thresholds, settlement currency, deposit options. The highlighted row marks the cheapest route into Polymarket's order book.

Resolution & payout

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How do I deposit on Polymarket from the UK?

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