Now up to 24.6°C at Swanston and it did briefly get up to around 25°C at Gogarbank before dropping back slightly so for now at least, my own estimate for today's maximum is looking to be spot on.

EDIT:

Now up to around 25°C at the botanic gardens as well.

There's no North Sea influence today and under those conditions, we can still get some really high temperatures even with some very strong winds. However, I don't think that today's conditions are quite right for that to happen because the winds are coming too much from the west for that and we really need those winds to back more southerly (a wind from the SSW would be enough) in order to bring those really high temperatures up from the south.

Generally though, I'm not too bothered if we don't any really high temperatures here as it's already hot enough in my flat as it is.

Not too bad all given the complete lack of any southerly component to our wind direction and with yesterday having been that bit hotter still, this means that tomorrow's temperature now only needs to either match or beat today's values in order for our first official heatwave of the year to be recorded here in Edinburgh.