What I have noticed these past three drought months is the low dew points and complete lack of any humidity so sleeping has not been a problem and most nights have been down to 15C or lower even after the 33.6C.

Hopefully this will be the last of these iInsufferably high dp's for a while. 

One more day of it here, but after tomorrow they should head back down. I can't wait!

A line of showers passed through about 30 mins ago and looked like there may be a few bits of heavy stuff from the radar, but not a drop touched the ground.

Sadly though, it is now unlikely that the temperature here in Edinburgh is going to come even close to reaching the lower of those two values, let alone the higher of those values.

As I write, the temperature here in Edinburgh is only around 18°C more generally (that temperature has even dropped a bit in the last hour or so) and just  16°C at the botanic gardens with that wind from off the North Sea still refusing to abate.

All in all, this has to go down as massive fail from the Met Office's perspective although in a way, I don't actually mind that because that has made my flat a lot more comfortable as a result, than I was expecting it to be.

As at 7:40pm BST (18:40 UTC), a total of 11.0 hours of sunshine had been recorded for today so far at Edinburgh Gogarbank which still leaves us with a fighting chance of getting away with a sunnier than average month in the end with only 3 days left to go. We're now 90.3% of the way through this month and we've now had 88.2% of our 1991-2020 May average sunshine at Edinburgh Gogarbank, so we're now finally very close to making up that deficit for this month, but still haven't quite done so yet. Actually getting a sunnier than average month this time continues to be a very big ask and as I write, more in the way of cloud has now built up from the south.

As I write though, it's currently warmer than it was at this time yesterday at around 17°C here in Edinburgh.

19.9, dew 16.3.

Last night's overnight minimum temperature was 13.8°C at Edinburgh Gogarbank and 14.1°C the botanic gardens in Edinburgh. For the botanic gardens, that actually makes last night the joint warmest May night on record according to records which go back to 1959. That record itself was set back on 25 May 2017 and the previous date record for yesterday (since this is officially yesterday's data which we are dealing with)  was 13.9°C as set in 2001.

The weather itself still refuses to change in any way, so we still have the usual mixture of cloud and sunny spells without any rain but we have now finally lost that wind from off the North Sea although the wind has picked up a bit this morning.

We managed to get our downstairs down to 20c this morning, which was bliss, however that rose through the day back up to nearly 25c.

Currently 20.1c outside, a very pleasant late spring evening with a light westerly.

There were a few sunny intervals at the start to today but today was actually mostly overcast and breezy until this evening. However, normal service for here has been resumed once again as the skies have cleared with the Sun now shining yet again.

There was even a little bit rain for a while this afternoon but that only dampened the ground a little bit and wasn't enough to generate any actual recorded rainfall at any of my local stations as per usual.

The change of wind direction meant that today was warmer than yesterday at the botanic gardens in Edinburgh with a maximum temperature of 19.1°C whereas the temperatures at Edinburgh Gogarbank were similar to yesterday with a maximum temperature of 19.44°C.

Overall, today was our dullest day for quite a long time with a total of only 1.1 hours of sunshine being recorded for today so far at Edinburgh Gogarbank as at 7:40pm BST (18:40 UTC) this evening. Even with that, there is still an outside chance of us escaping with a sunnier than average month but for that to happen, both of the last 2 days will need to be virtually completely sunny and according to the latest forecasts, that is unlikely to happen. That said though, forecasts can be wrong and so, I still wouldn't be the least bit surprised if that actually happened.

Currently, around 15°C here in Edinburgh which is a bit cooler than it was at this time yesterday.

16.4, dew 15.3, the overnight low was 13.2. Yesterday's high was a hot 26.4, with dewpoints of 17 or 18 for most of the day.