Logged 15.1C here today.

well locked and loaded for the second glimpse of spring this coming end of the week?

Again it looks like records might be challenged?

Potentially record-breaking #warm conditions as per latest #ECMWF towards next weekend in a sustained S/SW flow across many parts of W and NW #Europe. #GFS a little cooler, but still close to or above the 99th percentile in many areas. pic.twitter.com/2ixbdajGOr

— Lars Lowinski (@larslowinski) February 17, 2019

Tree pollen/ivy pollen?

EDIT: The mrs is a martyr to her hay fever and 'catkins' on the Willow are the first to set her off though some late flowering Ivy might also add into the mix? 

It'll feel chilly for the start of the week after this little treat but I have great faith in the return of the warm by the end of the week.

It is just another variation on the theme of H.P. pushing in and bossing the show?

It is as though any H.P. that could have brought us cold has been pushed to the south leaving us in the Top of the system and not the bottom of the system (West as opposed to east flows/feeds?) and so it continues?

With the Sun now galloping toward the equator for its summer visit the source areas for our warmth will now be seeing temps starting to rise for the summer so our impacts, if they do continue , will become increasingly summer like even though only early spring.

Bring it on I say!

On Friday the 15th, Pershore had a night time low of -4C and a daytime max of 15C, a 19C range,not as impressive as where you are,but still !!

16c already in Kinloss date record 17.5c. How high can we get?

With the sun shining 15.4c Now.

17.0C at Aboyne at 1pm.

Edit - and the Met Office tweeted that at 12.23pm it reached 17.9C at Aboyne, equalling the Scottish record for February.

Excellent stuff.  Perfect early spring weather - the plants will be fooled!

Just restrung the classical out in the sun and had to keep stopping to shed layers.

I think a beer ( or two?) and run through some of my practice pieces in the hammock would now be the order of the day ( as I bed in the new set of strings!)

Perfeck!!!

Here in Edinburgh, the temperature at 2pm this afternoon was now up 15.1°C at the botanic gardens in Edinburgh and since I have calculated your own record down in Manchester to be exactly 16.0°C, we can't be all that far from our own record up here just now, especially since today is still part of the meteorological "winter".

It will be interesting to see though whether or not, you are planning to release a time lapse video on YouTube for today because if you do, I will then be able to see what your maximum temperature for today actually was.

I might record one tomorrow, since it looks like it will bring the highest temperature. Also in those time-lapses, I round the temperature to the nearest 0.5C for convenience, so it sometimes doesn't show the true high.

I'll just have to be content with my current 9.8 c at 3.30 pm from a max of 11.5 at 12.45 pm - all under mostly overcast skies.  

I don't know whether or not, you have read this article which now confirms that as the new Scottish record for February.

Here in Edinburgh, the temperature has dropped back slightly during the last hour, so our actual maximum temperature here in Edinburgh for today, looks like being 15.2°C which was reached at the botanic gardens in Edinburgh just about an hour ago.

Nearly a whopping 12*C here now .

A few chinks in the low cloud armour starting to appear and it looks to be clearing from the west within the next hour... BUT it'll be past 4 pm by then which at this time of year is too late for the sun to do much to the temps.

Might manage to add a half degree or so if it can clear within the next half-hour, though.

Of course, it appears we have 6 or 7 more days of exceptionally balmy air to come, so it's not like I won't have more chances to join the 15*C+ club!

That'll be a new Scottish record for February then.....