Here in Edinburgh, those changes to a drier pattern tend to start with weather fronts delivering no more than perhaps a small fraction of 1 mm of rain in total, or sometimes even nothing at all in the way of actual recorded rainfall (sometimes when that is happening, it can still get a bit damp, but without that amounting to anything which is officially recorded as anything more than just a 'trace' and in some cases, it has even stayed completely dry in these circumstances).

Usually, Edinburgh will be the first place to dry out with that process already being underway whilst the rest of the UK is still very wet. That doesn't appear to be the case this time though and instead, it would appear that we were just the final part of the UK in this instance to end up getting into that really wet pattern (as shown by the fact that our first wetter than average month of this year didn't actually happen until March).

However, it may well be that perhaps with the exception of the west of Scotland (which has actually been drier than average throughout most of this period), we might well all be coming into that change of pattern together.

Even with Storm Pierrick, there was no more than 1 mm of rain from that after 09:00 UTC yesterday morning even though the weather still took a while to clear up after that and although this morning's rainfall has now "technically" arrived, it really isn't amounting to anything at all, and has only just made things a little bit damp and no more. Adding those two things today, this might suggest that we're now drying out here overall which usually always happens anyway as Edinburgh never gets long sequences of consecutive wetter than average months.

Last night was very mild and although the official minimum temperature at Edinburgh Gogarbank is shown to be 8.0°C, that was actually recorded yesterday morning just after the start of the official observation day for yesterday at 10am BST (09:00 UTC).

During last night itself, the temperatures were actually quite a bit higher than that with yesterday's official maximum temperature of 13.7°C at Edinburgh Gogarbank being recorded during yesterday evening.

Meanwhile, the temperature at 7:40am BST (06:40 UTC) this morning was 11.7°C at Edinburgh Gogarbank.

Not quite as warm here, but it feels muggy despite the wind. Another good drying day for washing!

Mostly cloudy, a SW'ly breeze, 17.2, dew 13.7. 17.2 is also the high so far, and last night's low was 11.2.

That is very close to today's highest temperature of the day so far of 15.5°C at Edinburgh Gogarbank.

Meanwhile, today's hotspot here in Edinburgh as I write is the botanic gardens with a temperature of 16.6°C whereas Musselburgh in East Lothian just to the east of Edinburgh is the overall local hotspot with a temperature of 16.7°C.

The only downside is that there's now a lot more in the way of cloud around which means that it's not as sunny as it was this morning. That could now put a cap on the temperatures and prevent them from rising any further.

Since that was recorded from an additional 10 minute reading, it won't show on the major sites such as weatherobs.com which only show the hourly data but that is the highest temperature of the day so far and the actual maximum temperature will therefore be the same as or higher than that.

As at 3:20 pm BST (14:20 UTC) this afternoon, the temperature at Edinburgh Gogarbank had dropped back just slightly to 17.1°C.

Shame it's getting cooler again from Sunday 

Although we briefly had some late evening sunshine though, the weather has once again gone downhill over time and it's now raining yet again as I write.

Yesterdays high for the first time this year of 18C, was a brief flash in the pan. It soon returned to 16C.

Last night was very mild and was by far, our warmest night of this year so far with an official minimum temperature of 11.5°C.

It was also only our first double figures minimum temperature of this year.

Since there are still a few hours to go until the official end of that observation day at 10am BST (09:00 UTC) this morning, the final figure for yesterday's official minimum temperature could still end up being lower than what I have quoted above but it would take quite a big drop in the temperature over that period to scupper those hopes of last night being our warmest night of the year so far, or even those hopes of our first double figures minimum being recorded and that is unlikely to happen.

Meanwhile, the temperature at Edinburgh Gogarbank as at 7:10 am BST (06:10 UTC) this morning was 12.4°C.

Currently 21.2, dew 14.8, which is the high so far. Last night just got into single figures, briefly, with a low of 9.7.

It's fairly windy but not excessively so (by that, I mean that there's not been any wind gusts of 30 mph or higher at Edinburgh Gogarbank so far) and although there's still a lot of cloud around, there's also been some blue sky around and occasional sunny intervals.

Temperatures are similar to what we had yesterday, so the temperature at 1:30pm BST (12:30 UTC) this afternoon was around 16°C here in Edinburgh.

It really does seem as though we're heading into a completely different pattern as well because it's been a lot warmer than of late in the last couple of days, there's even been a bit more sunshine than we've been used to (although that wouldn't exactly be difficult) and there's not been anything like as much rain around either, even though we've still had some rain over the last couple of nights in particular.

That makes a complete change from the almost constant dull, cold and wet conditions which we were having to endure beforehand.

Much the same here but a degree cooler at 19C. It's the fresh wind that takes the edge off things.

Waiting for the magic 21C as my Dad used to call this temp.

Well officially its hit 21c in London today 21.4c at St James's Park. Warmest day of the year

The temperature has also dropped slightly to around 14°C as well as at 3:30pm BST (14:30 UTC) this afternoon which means that today is not quite going to end up being as warm as yesterday.