Happy Summer Solstice everyone.
From here, the gradual descent towards winter starts as it will now very slowly and gradually start to get darker at nights again from now on.
However, too much cloud in the way prevented any decent view last night of what would have been the most spectacular view of the entire year, of the lingering overnight twilight which occurs as a result of the nights being so short at this time of the year.
However, last night was a lot warmer than the previous night as a result of all of that cloud cover and last night's overnight temperature at Edinburgh Gogarbank was 12.6°C which is much more typical of what we should be expecting at this time of the year (it is summer after all).
In addition to that, there was even a little bit of rain during the early hours of this morning.
That rain has now cleared away after resulting in a total of just 1.0 mm of rain being recorded at Edinburgh Gogarbank along with 0.4 mm at the botanic gardens in Edinburgh.
I don't want to be seeing any water shortages and/or restrictions here and don't really enjoy having to go on about that on this forum but if we really want to be preventing any of that from actually happening before too long, our totals need to much better than that and be occurring more regularly than what we are seeing just now.
As I write, it it still overcast although I'm sure that the Sun will probably make its usual appearance before too long with the usual dry weather still ongoing.
Meanwhile, the temperature at 7am BST (06:00 UTC) this morning was around 13°C here 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.