18.8C light cloud

18C. Hazy sun and freshening wind from the east. 

A very different day today, heavy cloud and a NE'ly breeze. It's still warm for the time of day, mind!

18.1, dew 16.3. The overnight low was just 17.8 and the high yesterday was 27.8 - hopefully the last excursion into the upper 20s for some time.

Sadly, the cloud didn't break up for long and now, we're back to dull and overcast conditions without even a hint of any brightness. That said, this is the year in which the Sun just won't stop shining and because of that, I still wouldn't be surprised if the Sun broke through later on.

However, today is expected to be a little bit cooler than yesterday once again but yet another 20+°C is still being forecast by the Met Office and it's not until Monday that any maximums of lower than 20°C are actually being forecast although there are no signs of any really hot weather returning such as what we had a couple of days and so, there are no signs of any more heatwaves for now.

Last night's overnight minimum temperature at Edinburgh Gogarbank was 12.7°C.

Currently around 16°C here in Edinburgh

Have the North sea temps really cold again now that delivering unforecasted clouds that desperately went too far west?  I thought those issues of idiot cloudy mornings does not exist in summer and early Autumn due to warmer SSTs over the North sea than in Spring?

No, the North Sea SSTs are warmer than average for the time of year.

20C off Sheppey!

https://www.meteociel.fr/observations-meteo/temperature-de-la-mer.php?region=uk 

Then clouds not suppose to form under warmer SST.   Something not right those high sea temps and clouds forming same time:

As I said earlier, this is the year in which the Sun just won't stop shining and because of that, it hasn't taken long for the Sun to come back out again.

Currently around 17°C here in Edinburgh but despite forecasts of today being slightly cooler than yesterday, I wouldn't be surprised if it was actually a bit warmer today with that sunshine.

Looking at the cloud radar, the North Sea cloud sheet is thick and not really breaking up at all. Usually you see it retreating back to the coast quite rapidly by now but not today. Perhaps there's just not enough of a breeze to mix and disperse? That combined with a weakening sun might explain it. 

In any case the apps showing a sunny afternoon look very inaccurate right now. 

Power of the sun being diminished by smoke from Spain and Portugal and Saharan dust.

It nearly 2pm as I been looking at the clock with worry about no sun and should had been clear earlier since I live nearly 100 miles from the east coast. App are such a complete idiot showing fictional sun and 24? 20.5 here you idiot app. It much lower as it cold and had to shut all the ajar windows completely to keep house very warm.  All the forecasts and apps had been a complete idiot since the heatwave started.

Feeling pleasantly warm in the sunshine at 19°C currently.

Completely wrong with their symbol and descriptive   forecast 

It's been <20°C all day, grey and overcast. Light breeze stirring the leaves. Allowed me to do a "tidy up" mow of the lawn in relative comfort. 😁

Stunning blue skies here since lunchtime and 21 C feeling very warm with no wind ☀️☀️

Low cloud always takes longer than forecast to burn back to the coast, fear might not see the sun here for some considerable number of days.  

It certainly is here this afternoon. Very yellowy/milky sun and sky and I think a very orange sunset later.

Warm 26.4C. 

The moon was blood red last night with a smoke haze in the sky dense enough to blot out the sun currently. 22c /78% rh but with a pleasing breeze. 

Yes, it's once again the same old warm weather, the same old bone dry conditions and the same old sunshine which we always get now.

I can usually appreciate a bit of nice, sunny weather every now and then but the vast majority of this year has been almost constantly like that and now for me, it's like "can someone please change the record?".

In fact, we don't even need to hope for a nice, sunny day anymore because we already know that this is probably what it's going to be like anyway based on the fact that we just don't get the sort of more changeable weather here in any more which we used to get, and which would actually allow us to appreciate this type of weather a bit more whenever we get it.

Despite the sunshine, the temperature is only around 21°C here in Edinburgh which is slightly cooler than yesterday but that is still above average for here and even with those temperatures, it still feels far too hot and stuffy in this little flat where I live.

I woke up this morning thinking I had landed on Mars…A very deep orange with a hazy cream above.

Still very windy here gusting close to 40mph. Temperature peaked at around 21.5c

Yes a very poor forecast today. Was meant to be 25-26C and sunny and in reality it was 18C at 1pm under thick cloud. It did nudge up a bit in the afternoon with the odd break in the clouds but back to overcast now. 

Yeah we managed to get to 21.4c in the end but by lunchtime I had a feeling our 67 days with a max above 21c would come to an end. A very poor forecast, that's for sure.

A very pleasant evening as the cloud dissolves and less humid air arrives. Sunny, breezy from the NE, 18.8, dew 14.3. And best of all? It's quieter than recently outside, as the "let's stink out the road with our smelly BBQs" folks stay indoors. Perfect!

21 here eventually . Sun came out around 6pm rest of  day thick grey cloud cover . Very disappointing day