The earlier cloud cover has broken up a bit more and in the end, a total of 11.5 hours of sunshine was recorded for today at Edinburgh Gogarbank. That is still a fairly decent total but at one point in time, it did look as though we would beat yesterday's total after a completely sunny morning until those chances were scuppered by that cloud cover which built up later on.
Today's maximum temperatures were 23.1ºC at Edinburgh Gogarbank, 24ºC at Edinburgh Airport and 24.2ºC at the botanic gardens in Edinburgh. At Edinburgh Gogarbank, this makes today, the second warmest day of this month so far. It was the joint warmest day of this month so far at Edinburgh Airport and the warmest day of the month so far at the botanic gardens in Edinburgh where it was also the third warmest day of the year.
The temperatures haven't really dropped away by all that much during tonight so far either so at 10pm, the temperature was 18.7ºC at Edinburgh Gogarbank, 19ºC at Edinburgh Airport and 19.4ºC 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.