The Sun is still shining here in Edinburgh at the moment as I write, and this has now created quite a big landmark here as a total of 7.6 hours of sunshine have been recorded for today so far at Edinburgh Gogarbank as at 5pm this afternoon. This means that this month will now go down as a sunnier than average month overall as the total number of hours of sunshine during this month so far is now more than the 1981-2010 June average for that station.
What makes this even more amazing is the fact that this will be going down as a sunnier than average summer month which tends to something of a rarity these days in this modern era of the Great British summer, and this was something which was looking very unlikely to happen just a week or so ago.
However, the east coast has started to creep as as well, as I write and over time, it might end up being a bit of a struggle to add much more to today's sunshine total because of that.
Today's maximum temperatures were 23.9ºC in Jerry's neck of the woods at Swanston (which I've included as a sort of fourth local station for now, just to show the variations in temperature across the city under this easterly wind), 22.2ºC at Edinburgh Gogarbank, 20ºC at Edinburgh Airport and just 18.2ºC at the botanic gardens in Edinburgh.
From that, Jerry's prediction for 25ºC in his area hasn't quite come unless he has recorded that himself on his own readings, whereas his predictions for this part of Edinburgh where I am (as represented by the temperature at the botanic gardens in Edinburgh) have been largely correct to the nearest 1ºC.
Meanwhile, the temperature at 5pm this afternoon was 22.4ºC at Swanston, 21.1ºC at Edinburgh Gogarbank, 17ºC at Edinburgh Airport and 16.0ºC 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.