Up to 29c now

The GFS has 30C for 10AM, MetO raw has 29 - the reality is 25.8, as a sea breeze has arrived. Hope it stays all day, but it won't.

Lucky you, up to 30.6c now

Overcast, very breezy (thankfully) 24.5c in the garden. Should be a bit cooler here today, after yesterdays furnace heat! Good luck to those of you further south. 😎🌡️

A lot more cloud around than yesterday

Meanwhile, in Edinburgh, it was 14 C at noon with a chilly NE wind.......brrrrrr

Locally Dew points are now knocking on 22C!!

Still air temperature hovering in 30-31C range.

The one positive from this though is that it’s nothing like as stuffy in my flat as it has been recently which is a massive relief for me.

Sitting at 18.5c and overcast now. 

High 19.6c earlier.   Almost no sunshine, perhaps some hazy sun first thing. 

31.1, dew 23.7 (!!) - unbearable.

Temp 33.5c 

Dew 18c so not that bad, but then what is these days

Mmm, I'd gladly trade you - the dewpoint is what makes it so unbearable! It's bonkers, widespread 21s and up north of the Downs.

I guess the air descending down the Downs dries it out slightly. 34c now by the way

There's not a breath of wind now, the sea breeze has gone. It's as if it's left a legacy of extremely humid air behind!

It's only 14.7C here you would think with such a gradient there'd be a tornado zone.

Edit:16:00

Wind gone round to the south and temp has dropped slightly

Temp 32c

Dew 21c

So the dew point has risen markedly in the last hour and it is extremely humid

14.1C with fog on hills now just to indicate why - NE wind off sea.

https://i.postimg.cc/jjrSfYL6/12918-34.jpg 

Lion Inn weather station near that cam 12.3C

https://www.wunderground.com/dashboard/pws/IFARNDAL3/graph/2025-07-1/2025-07-1/daily 

Oh, that looks idyllic - no worries about sweat, having to drink bucketloads of water, no worries about noise, no problems with sleeping tonight!

Here there's some slight haze here over the hills, but that's all. (Two pics from the garden - one showing the hills to the north, the other showing the view through the trees. It's noticeably cooler in the shade amongst the shrubs and under the trees, but even so - still sweltering!

It's now 30.8, dew 23.5, with the odd puff from the south. The high so far is 31.9, thankfully 3C below the 35 that both MetO and GFS had here today. The personal stations in Sittingbourne, a few miles to the SW on the mainland, are all showing 36s and 37s, so it was a narrow escape!

https://ukwct.org.uk/weather/hills.jpg 

https://ukwct.org.uk/weather/trees.jpg 

https://www.meteociel.fr/observations-meteo/temperature-de-la-mer.php 

Currently cloudy and 14.7°C after an earlier high of 16.4°C. Disappointing for the first day of July.

15 C is our maximum today. Jumpers and coats are the order of the day up here. There will be some surprised tourists disembarking from the London trains! No sun today at all and very gloomy

Considering lighting stove here (more for bountiful free hot water but it would be tolerable).

Unlike on other recent days, today has been a day in which the temperatures have been generally refusing to rise here and as a result, today's maximum temperature at Edinburgh Gogarbank was just 15.7°C which isn't even the least bit warm for this time of the year any more.

Earlier on today, I saw a few pictures of the King and Queen arriving here in Edinburgh for their annual stay at Holyrood Palace and to them, these cooler conditions must have seemed like a real shock to their system given the really hot conditions down south in particular.

For me though, I'm just glad that it doesn't feel anything like as stuffy in my flat as a result and the weather hasn't actually been as bad as the forecasts had suggested.

I haven't even seen any of the drizzle which Jerry mentioned this morning and it has been completely bone dry here right throughout the day despite the ongoing forecast of showers.

In this year in which Sun just will not stop shining, the Sun always finds a way to be seen in the end, regardless of how the day actually pans out and to a certain extent, that is happening yet again with a number of sunny spells coming through at times. This means that although it's still mostly cloudy, I don't really consider today to be all that gloomy.

Currently around 14°C here in Edinburgh 

A very stuffy night has given way to a generally cloudy morning, with the traditional lack of wind. The radar showed a couple of light showers passing over in the early hours but nothing fell from them, it's just as dusty as ever. There was a marked drop in temperatures around half an hour ago, suggesting a front going through, finally clearing out that exceptionally humid plume from yesterday.

It's 19.1, dew 17.6, which is the overnight low so far. Yesterday's high was a late one, 32.9, as an onshore breeze picked up and destroyed the thin layer of maritime air that was over Sheppey.