14.4 (and rising quickly), 13.6 dewpoint. Last night's low was 9.4, only a couple of hours ago!

Currently around 12°C here in Edinburgh, but with a much more humid and muggy feel.

Feels like I'm still winding down after being able to take photos of the aurora on my smartphone the other night (the battery on my trusty D7000 was dead and being a last second thing I had to improvise) . . . 

There is some medium level instability from the south already, I suspect thundery showers will break out over the Pentlands by mid afternoon.

A great picture Ian. I had a look last night and nothing showing. 👍

Absolutely stunning!

I see that my nearest weather station, Swanston recorded 24.6 C yesterday, so my 25 C in the garden was fairly accurate!

We're actually on the edge of an official Met Office yellow warning for thunderstorms which is due to come into effect at 3pm BST (14:00 UTC) this afternoon.

That warning is mostly in force in the west of the country and Edinburgh wasn't originally included within that warning area, but we have come into it as of this morning's updates on that.

Whether that actually comes off or not though is a completely matter but today's sunshine is more sporadic and much hazier in nature with much more of a humid feel to things.

It's also not quite as warm as the last couple of days at around 19°C here in Edinburgh (at this time yesterday, we were already at around 21°C). Meanwhile, it's only around 17°C at Edinburgh Airport as I write, and just a measly 15°C at the botanic gardens in Edinburgh.

The same here, though perhaps hideous for some, another day of joy after months of gloom for many others.

Running is the hideous bit (can't stand it, but doing a tax return, OTOH - much more fun), today's just unpleasantly muggy and stuffy.

Sunny here, with just a very light puff of wind from the NE. 18.9, dew 15.2, the high so far being 19.7.

It's the dewpoint that does it, of course. I've been in 37C in Vegas and found it fine, indeed in the wind it even felt slightly cool, but this mugginess means I just sweat instead. 15C dewpoints used to be common enough in high summer back in the day (i.e. mid July to mid August), but having them in mid May is just great - not.

More of this please, only hotter and more humid. Gonna have to wait a while though

In fact, the temperatures have even dropped back in the last hour or so to around 18°C at Edinburgh Gogarbank, 16°C at the airport and only 14°C at the botanic gardens.🤢

24.6c max. 26.2c

1009.7mb steady

Absolutely nothing for here in Edinburgh though and as for the rest of the country, that lightning has now died our according to the latest rain radar maps showing us yet again that interesting weather just doesn't generally happen here.

Meanwhile, the temperature as I write is around 12°C after a maximum of 19.9°C at Edinburgh Gogarbank , so today was slightly cooler than the last few days with a total of just 5.6 hours of sunshine at Edinburgh Gogarbank.