Here in Edinburgh, we've had a few fairly decent days since I was last on this forum with 13.4 hours of sunshine being recorded at Gogarbank during yesterday, and with a temperature of 19.4°C being recorded as yesterday's maximum temperature at the botanic gardens in Edinburgh. In addition to that, Wednesday brought us the first record sunshine of the year at Edinburgh Gogarbank to have occurred after 9pm on any given evening which is now as late in the evening as we can possibly get that throughout the year.
That tells us that we are getting very close to the summer solstice now and although there has also been a lot of cloud around at times, there has been enough breaks in that cloud for the lingering twilight which we get at this time of the year, to be visible all the way through the night during a few recent nights.
Today isn't turning out to be so sunny though because after a fairly bright start to the day, it has now completely clouded over and so, a total of just 48 minutes of sunshine has been recorded for today so far at Edinburgh Gogarbank as at 11am this morning.
Last night's overnight minimum temperature was 7.0°C at Edinburgh Gogarbank, 6°C at Edinburgh Airport and 6.6°C at the botanic gardens in Edinburgh.
Meanwhile, the temperature at 11am this morning was 12.0°C at Edinburgh Gogarbank, 12°C at Edinburgh Airport and 12.3°C at the botanic gardens in Edinburgh.
The north of Edinburgh, usually always missing out on snow events which occur not just within the rest of Scotland or the UK, but also within the rest of Edinburgh.