Yesterday's high ended up as 29.6, by far the warmest day of the year so far.

Thanks, mate.😎

However, there is a cool wind from off the North and because of that, today is cooler than of late with a temperature of around 18°C generally here in Edinburgh, and only around 15°C at the botanic gardens.

Temperature isn't as hot as Monday (yet) but hotter than yesterday. Humidity is on the up again with dew points in the high teens. 

29.5C

Dp. 18.5C 

Sunny 

Light winds

Back into the furnace tomorrow though, 32C on the MetO raw!

26.2c max. 28.2c

1022.8mb falling

Although it was cloudy for most of this morning with a brief cloudier period in the afternoon as well, a total of 8.3 hours of sunshine had still been recorded for today so far at Edinburgh Gogarbank as at 7:40pm BST (18:40 UTC) this evening.

This brings this month's total up to 81.8% of the 1991-2020 May average and we're now 87.1% of the way through, so we've not all far away now from making up this month's deficit. Tomorrow is forecast to warm up again and with that, it's likely to be sunnier than today, so a sunnier than average month in the end still can't be completely ruled out.

For now though, the temperature in Edinburgh is a rather cool 13°C.

So close and yet so far. As they say, next time perhaps.

17.4, dew 15.1, both rising fast under plentiful sunshine. There were a few bits of accas around earlier (which makes a change), but they've since evaporated. It's going to be steamy and sticky today, I think... 🥵

Today is forecast to be warmer than yesterday once again though but for that to happen, we will need to get rid of that breeze from off the North Sea which is still around.

Today has started off with some cloud around, but also some decent sunny spells at times. With that, I'm still expecting another fairly decent sunshine total for today but probably not as big a total  for that as I was expecting beforehand.

Currently, around 12°C here in Edinburgh

It's been great for me to experience 30 C heat and strong thunderstorms down here in the Dales during this exceptional heatwave. We just don't get these events up in Edinburgh very often

That's exactly the point which I am always making all along whenever I'm saying that Edinburgh just doesn't get "interesting" weather. Most people would appreciate our sunshine and in many ways, I am actually no different in that regard. The issue which I have is that I'm just sick and tired of constantly experiencing that every single day, day in, day out so I would just like to see something different from that for a change. That way, I know that it will then be a lot easier for me to properly appreciate any further sunshine which we get after that.

That said, it's still quite cool here in Edinburgh as I write with a temperature of only around 15°C more generally and just 13°C at the botanic gardens so unless we suddenly get quite a big warm up later on here (for that, we will need to lose that North Sea influence which is still around), that official forecast for today to be much warmer than yesterday is going to end up looking rather silly.