Temp rose very early and was 25c at 11am. Now 28.5c and cloudless.

Quite overcast with sea mist/low cloud so it is feeling refreshingly cool at 19.8 C despite the 83% H - however I am currently willing that shower just off to the south of Ashford to spread out this way! That would buy my very parched lawn some time.

Part cloudy now but still hot at 27.5C.  It reached  28.5C a couple of hours ago.

Was nothing more than a couple of minute's smattering, just enough to give off that smell of petrichor - but I'm also trying my hardest not to think about that month's worth of dried up sputum laying on pavements all coming back to life.

Scattered Cloud. Well Sunny ... 28.1c. Humidity all of 24% rh.

High of 26.7c

Still sunny and 28.3c but some cloud is starting to bubble up. 

24C beautiful warm cloudless day. Noticeably breezy

At 11am it was 23C but 17C now.

There were some quite showery looking clouds for a while but brighter now.

Temperature dropped from 24 to 18 in 30mins!

Cloud did arrive and the sun went in for half an hour but the temp stayed at 28.2c and it feels quite oppressive.  Cloud breaking up now and sun is shining. 

Today's maximum temperature was 23.6ºC at Edinburgh Gogarbank, 24ºC at Edinburgh Airport and 23.3ºC at the botanic gardens in Edinburgh. This means that today will now go down as the warmest day of this month so far at all three of my local stations.

However, those north-easterlies which have plagued us for so much of this summer have now made yet another unwelcome return which has caused the temperatures to drop by quite a lot over the last few hours.

It had been expected by the forecasts that a very weak cold front would move through and bring cooler air behind it. The majority of weather fronts which affect us in this part of the world will usually bring some rain. That of course, doesn't always happen and that wasn't expected to happen on this occasion.

However, even those very weak weather fronts which don't bring any rain will at the very least be bringing a band of cloud. From what I have seen, it is unlikely that this sharp drop in temperatures and resulting sharp change in wind direction could have been caused by anything else apart from that cold front moving through as expected. It is weird though to see that happen without there even being any cloud associated with that weather front, let alone any rain.

Anyway, the result of all of this is that the temperature as at 5pm this afternoon is now down to 19.6ºC at Edinburgh Gogarbank, 18ºC at Edinburgh Airport and 18.8ºC at the botanic gardens in Edinburgh.

After a max of 28.5C it`s cooler and more comfortable now, currently 20.5C

I know that Richard has been praising the sunshine totals in his part of the world on one of those very rare occurrences where he has actually been happy with the weather in the area where he lives. What I have been reporting doesn't of course, match that. However, it should also be borne in mind that where Richard lives in Aberdeen is a lot further north than where I live here in Edinburgh.

At this time of year, hours of daylight get longer the further north (the reverse is true of course, during the winter when it gets darker, the further north that you go) that you go which means that you would expect the average sunshine totals to be higher in Aberdeen at this time of year, than they are here in Edinburgh due to those longer hours of daylight at this time of year.

This means that also the number of hours of sunshine which I have been reporting for here in Edinburgh hasn't been as much as what Richard has been reporting for Aberdeen, I would say that our sunshine totals here in Edinburgh have been just about as impressive under those circumstances which I have just described.

Meanwhile, the temperature at 10pm tonight were 14.3ºC at Edinburgh Gogarbank, 14ºC at Edinburgh Gogarbank and 14.6ºC at the botanic gardens in Edinburgh.

Today was the cloudiest day of the month here. Only managed 10.7 hours  Max of 20.6C.

I will assume then, that this will be heading back in the direction of being "vile" and "putrid" once again.