I'm glad it didn't rain in Edinburgh yesterday as I was there with work and just as I had finished the sun came out and I was able to enjoy a good walk before I had to head back on the train. Aberdeen missed out on the rain as well and was also mostly cloudy with 4.9 hours sun.
Edinburgh has had plenty of thunderstorms this summer and exceeded 31C. A sharp contrast to the utter tedium endured here. I can never remember anything so relentlessly unsettled yet added up to so little. Just dire drizzle and light rain showers almost every day. About the only part of the country not to record a single noteworthy high temperature the entire year when even Baltasound managed an exceptional (for their location) 23.4C in July.
I doubt there has been anywhere else in the country that has had to suffer the relentless bland and unextreme tripe that we've been served up for the last six years. Constantly missing out on anything exciting or interesting even the snow that we always used to get. Life in a weather vaccuum is what it feels like 
That was a spell of unusually "interesting" weather for here though. Normally, our weather here in Edinburgh isn't all that interesting and the last few days in particular, have really showed us that.
I will also add that when 31°C was exceeded here in Edinburgh, that wasn't actually the case right across Edinburgh. It is true that the temperature at Edinburgh Gogarbank reached 31.6°C on that day and it is that reading which confirmed that Edinburgh had its hottest day on record on that day.
Where I live here in the north of Edinburgh, that was also quite a hot day. However, there was also a slight breeze from off the North Sea which meant that it wasn't as hot here in the north of Edinburgh as it was slightly further inland at locations such as Edinburgh Gogarbank.
That was shown by the fact that the temperature on that day, only reached 26.6°C at the botanic gardens in Edinburgh (as confirmed as the true maximum temperature on that day on that station's website, whereas the highest hourly reading on that day was only 26.1°C at that same station) which although still quite hot for here, was a whole 5.0°C cooler than what it was at Edinburgh Gogarbank on that same day.
That is quite a significant temperature difference for within what is more or less, the same local area which was enough to ensure that I myself, never actually got to experience those really high temperatures where I live here in the north of Edinburgh.
This is just the opposite thing from what happened quite a lot during the winter of 2012/13 when under an easterly wind, there was quite a lot of deep snow just a little bit further inland from here whilst there was very little in the way of lying snow here in the north of Edinburgh due to our close proximity to the east coast and the fact that those easterly winds from off the North Sea were that bit milder here as a result, than what they were further inland.
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30 August 2019 04:14:24
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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.