Edinburgh will always be sunnier and drier than the Lakes! However in an Easterly it does get hotter here in Summer.
Unfortunately it's a cloudy westerly summer this year 🙄

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Looks like the weather gods knew in advance that you were arriving down there, as it is normally during the winter that we tend to never get those easterlies (the very time of the year when we could do with them being around to deliver some really cold and snowy weather to these parts).

These easterlies would then usually be more likely to be around at other times of the year which is why we tend to get so much easterly muck coming in from off the North Sea during the spring and early summer in particular (at this time of the year, we get that as well at the start of each day, except that the sunshine is usually always strong enough at this time of the year to burn that back, thus resulting in sunny afternoons although it will still be much cooler than further inland).

Having said that though, our most dominant wind direction here in the UK is usually from the SW which means that although easterlies aren't uncommon, they don't occur anywhere near as often as westerlies on average and I am welcoming the absence of those easterlies during this summer.

With the current setup, we should be relatively sheltered from those cool westerlies here in SE Scotland which should result in it being sunnier here than what it is in most other parts of Scotland and that is what is making this dull start to the month which we've had all the more frustrating, especially when you consider that we have many days in the past at this time of the year under an easterly which have started off with a lot of easterly muck coming in from off the North Sea, but which have still ended up being sunnier than what we are seeing just now due to the Sun burning all of that muck back again by the afternoon.

 

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So much for the dry week. Another VILE day today waking up to lashing rain and soul destroying grey skies. Was supposed to clear in the afternoon but it just won't shift. Nothing more than a few pitifully brief sunny periods, adding up to a pathetic 35 minutes, followed by more unforecast rain. Horribly and windy too. Just dreadful 
 
The mountains which protect us from ghastly Atlantic cloud at all other times of year seem to inexplicably lose their ability to do so in summer 
 
Most ridiculous of all it was 21C under the overcast. When the hell on earth were those temperatures achieved under overcast filth before? Never. Not ever. Welcome to 21st Century summer hell when the warmest month of the year is written off by endless grey crud and the warmer it gets the cloudier the skies 
 
Last sunny day was the 27th June and there has been nothing remotely summery this month. That 'poor' low pressure weekend delivered wonderful conditions vastly superior to the utter excrement this month has served up so far.
 
A bleak miserable and depressing sorry excuse for a July that has already seen half the monthly average rain and, more preposterously, is on course to be the dullest month of the year to date just like 2012 
 
Tomorrow is supposed to have sunny spells but I suspect it will be more of the same. Sunny spells used to mean a mix of cumulus and sun with around 5-8 hours sunshine. That kind of weather is all but extinct now as all there seems to be is either sun or overcast and at the moment it's day after day of the latter 

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So windy and grey today , felt like autumn.
Fairly mild now this evening at 16.4c but still grey. Hopefully worst day for a long time .

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Working in the garden and it's absolutely beautiful.

Another great summer!

 

I'm not really moaning...but I am a bit. Why do we seem to suffer a lot from hazy humid skies? The last 2 days were lovely and as usual when the temperature pushes over 25C, the sky is just white now. It always reminds me of driving back from my holidays over the years and seeing the line of white sky appear as we edged towards Greater Manchester

I'm surprised though at just how quickly it's clouded over today, thin high cloud appeared quite early on and now it's essentially overcast.

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Cloud satellite suggests a cloudy couple of hours across N England before more in the way of sunshine, cloud band already clearing Flyde coast, clouding over here but still with sunny breaks.

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Air traffic has a lot to do with it. Often you'll see a fairly cloudless sky and then as soon as there is a bit of humidity the aircraft trails start to linger and spread into cloud. We have a lot of intersecting flight paths over our area and the skies often get completely "hazed out". During lockdown in 2020 you could really notice the clearer skies.

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Yes I definitely noticed a difference during lockdown. We had what seemed like endless days of blue.

Today has been spoiled by the high cloud really. It's still lingering with no sign of breaking. Usually tends to ease off in the evening. It just makes it feel more oppressive than hot.

I’ve always said cloudy, hot weather is like being inside a sweaty old sock. 

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By coincidence "chemtrails" is trending on UK Twitter - usually a sign of an impending cold front 🙂

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Those hazy are pollution and attacking the warmest time of the day.  Yesterday was super clear and this morning but get polluted as the day go along. Hope we don't see those pesky clouds next Sunday and Monday extreme heat days, give a break and let us get a record broken.

One good day yesterday and back to the soul destroying GARBAGE today.

It's just beyond belief. It really is. The sooner this dire high pressure departs the better. Max 24.9C with a pathetic-beyond-words sun total of 1.8 hours 

Horrible, horrible weather like nothing on Earth we ever used to get. Would rather it was 17C and sunny.

When would temperatures reaching the mid-20s here ever have been accompanied by so much vile cloud and sunshine levels on a par with mid-winter? Never is the answer except during the weather nadir of the 21st Century 

It's little wonder we can't get anywhere near the sort of high temperatures we saw in the past when synoptics that would have brought the highest temperatures are now plagued with cloud. On the rare occasion, like yesterday, when the cloud doesn't arrive to ruin things the sea breeze pops up instead 

Comparisons with 1976 have to be the sickest joke I've ever heard. Even the July's of 1956, 1966 and 1986 were all leagues ahead of this horror show. There was absolutely nothing like this month in the past because such high pressure synoptics did not produce such ridiculously cloudy skies in days gone by.

This month is just appalling and more cloud fest horror on the way will ensure it finishes as the 7th duller than average July in 8 years. 7/8 - what an absolutely disgusting spell when year-in-year out the warmest month of the year is completely ruined with endless cloud 

It's just astounding. I'd be surprised if any month had ever had such a poor run whereby 7 out of 8 had below average sunshine. Not only that but, even more ludicrous, it remains on track to finish duller than January which would make it the dullest month of the year to date just like July 2012  January had 114 hours while July has managed a paltry 51 hours so far. January also managed 5 hours of sun on five consecutive days something this month hasn't come close to achieving despite having more than double the daylight 

Absolutely surreal era of soul destroying tripe we are living in  

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^ This post was brought to you in association with the Aberdeen Tourist Board.

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 Quite a lot of Spring Barley dying off in Aberdeen shire so it must have been pretty dry that way 

You wouldn't think so going by some of Richard's reports on here but then, Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire are actually two different council areas, so that could be right.

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It's almost midnight here but the temperature here in Edinburgh at 11pm BST (22:00 UTC) tonight was still up at 20°C.

Luckily, there is no chance of me actually recording an official tropical night here as the temperature is slightly below 20°C (the overnight minimum temperature needs to be above that in order for a tropical night to be recorded and officially, that should come from the 06z raw SYNOP data during the following morning as that is what will confirm the actual overnight minimum temperature, and not just the lowest hourly temperature reading).

However, I am absolutely sweltering here and I am finding it far too hot and humid as it is.

Furthermore, this is probably still the closest which I have ever come to actually recording a tropical night and I reckon that there will be quite a number of places down south which may well be doing that tonight, especially in somewhere like Central London.

Even here in Edinburgh, the temperature at 11pm BST (22:00 UTC) was 20.4°C at the botanic gardens in Edinburgh which means that a tropical night is actually still possible there as I write, albeit very unlikely.

 

 

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I've just been reading yet another report in the local press about yet another grass fire which happened during yesterday on Arthur's Seat here in Edinburgh.

This is happening far too often, and also shows the real urgent need for some proper rainfall in this part of the world given the current rapidly worsening water scarcity situation in the east of Scotland in general.

To be honest, I'm at the stage now with this that I really couldn't care less if it was to rain constantly for months on end from now on.

All I want at the end of the day, is for us have to actual proper "weather" back in this part of the world like what we used to have, or is that too much to ask for?

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Each to their own 

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Days like today are a waste of life. Dull, 31C, humid. The only thing that you can do of any use is trying to find ways of avoiding it. Why anybody would want more than blue skies and 22-25C is beyond me.

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For the statistical excitement. As Jiries rightly commented earlier, let’s get the record in the bag so we can then enjoy warm sunny non record breaking weather for the rest of the summer.

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Or inside a giant tupperware box left at room temperature. 

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Exactly that. One of the worst weather types, just behind the drizzly but mild November day when the dog dirt is cunningly hidden by squished fallen leaves, and the day-long cold downpour when it scarcely gets light.

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