However, that cool weather didn't last for very long and as I write, the temperature here in Edinburgh has already shot up to around 19°C in the usual sunshine even though there's now a lot more cloud than what there was earlier on with only occasional (though still frequent) sunny spells.

Already up to 27.2c at 10:10, a full 3.5c higher than at the same time yesterday.

27.8c min. 14.9c max. 31.9c

1028.4mb steady

In addition to that and despite a brief cloudier blip during this morning, today was our sunniest day of the year so far with a total of 14.5 hours of sunshine being recorded for today so far as at 8:40pm BST (19:40 UTC) this evening.

As I write, Edinburgh Gogarbank has now had around 72% of its 1991-2020 May average sunshine so far this month. We are now around 80% of the way through this month as I write but the deficit is now closing very quickly and I am now expecting that to be fully made up in the next couple of days.

Currently a rather warm 20°C here in Edinburgh.

Currently sunny and calm.

With less than a month to go until the summer solstice, we have now entered into the time of the year in which clear nights never get completely dark all night due to the nights being so short and this allowed us to see our first visible sightings of the year, of that lingering all night twilight.

This in turn resulted in it being nowhere near warm enough in the end to even come close to challenging the minimum temperature record for May which the forecasts were suggesting that we could actually beat.

Following on from that though, this morning then started off on a bright and sunny note earlier on, but a lot more in the way of the cloud has now come down from the north. Even with that through, there is still the odd break in that cloud with the occasional  sunny intervals still getting through at times and as recent days have shown us, it hardly ever stays cloudy here for very long any more.

Today is forecast to be cooler than yesterday but as I write, it still feels a little bit sticky even though the temperature is only around 15°C here in Edinburgh as I write.

Temperatures look a lot higher in Northern England at 08:30. It's 23 C+ already in most areas including the Dales and Pennines

It was a tropical night on Emley Moor 😆 BBC reported a minimum more than 20 C and Leeds/Bradford Airport reported a minimum of 21 C 🤔

Rhymes for the modern climate

On Emley Moor baht 'at

U-V'll come and fry thee up

Then we shall have to bury thee ... etc

One thing which has changed though is that the wind has started to come in more from off the North Sea and that should help to ensure that today doesn't get anywhere near as hot here as it was yesterday.

For now though, the temperature here in Edinburgh is now up to around 17°C. The Met Office are still going to a maximum of around 20°C which will no doubt still end up happening.

Currently 26C

Sunny 

However, this does at least mean that unlike in the last couple days, no date records are likely to be set there today.

Edit, now make that a 21c dp! 

Bet you're loving that! 🥵

We usually get a day or four around that level here each summer, but it's just nuts to see it in May, and in Ireland! The worst thing is very high dewpoint air takes ages to cool down, so unless colder air is blown in you get to swelter at night.

27.8, dew 18.6 here (really missing the sea breeze) - and that's stuffy enough.

Even when I was researching the violent summer storm events of both '85 & '86 (which I believe also affected SW UK/western Scotland) Dp's were only around 16-18c in the lead ups to both, which is still abnormally high even for late June and July. 

Under normal circumstances, one would reasonably expect the sky to explode at any moment under these sort of conditions, but hardly a cloud in the sky.. save for a few barely discernible wisps thorugh the water haze. 

I can see huge maturing Cumulonimbus clouds way to my SE over Bradford and Leeds

Unlike many of us you'll be sleeping soundly tonight then! 😁

Down here it's just getting hotter as the evening wears on - the wind is now coming from inland, bringing all that hot air with it. 29.6 (having been 29.5 when I started writing this!) and that's the high so far.

Today also wasn't quite as sunny as yesterday overall but as at 7:40pm BST (18:40 UTC) this evening, a total of 10.9 hours of sunshine had still been recorded for today so far at Edinburgh Gogarbank as the Sun continues to refuse to stop shining.

As I write, we are now around 83% of the way through this month with around 77% of our 1991-2020 May average sunshine having been recorded for this month so far. This means that it could still be very much touch and go as to whether this month ends up being sunnier than average or not, especially if it gets a bit cloudier by the end of the week.

Nevertheless, it is a bit cooler here just now than it has been in recent days with the temperature here in Edinburgh, only at around 14°C as I write. As a result, it finally doesn't feel so sweltering hot in my flat and I'm feeling a lot better for that. As a result, we at least won't have to worry about tonjght possibly being our warmest May night on record.