Sunny 

Do 16C

3rd day in a row of hitting at least 30C

27.3, dew 18.6, clear blue skies and calm.

34.5C at 15.30hrs. 😬

The highest temperature recorded in Edinburgh is 26.85°C as recorded at the botanic gardens with Swanston not far behind at 26.4°C, so today has actually turned out to be hotter than what it was forecast to be.

The temperature at the botanic gardens is only 1.60°C short of that highest temperature of the year so far which also gave us our hottest June day on recorded and the actual maximum temperature is usually higher than the highest hourly reading.

However, that is a big enough difference to mean that we are unlikely to actually get our hottest day of the this year so far with today's figures although that can never be completely ruled out. In any case, no records are under threat this time time though, as we would need a 30+°C maximum here in order to even challenge any records for this month but today's date record at the botanic gardens is exactly 28.00°C and there is an outside chance that we could challenge that today, if not beat that.

Despite those high temperatures though, I'm not actually sweltering in my flat to the extent that I was the last time we saw these high temperatures in June. The Met Office have been saying for some time that it wouldn't be as humid this time as it was with that June hot spell and that does appear to be the case at the moment.

It is now showing 33.7c so only 0.1c than the hottest during the expected height of the heat but that was back around 4pm.

In addition to that, a total of 9.7 hours of sunshine was recorded for today so far at Edinburgh Gogarbank as at 8:40pm BST (19:40 UTC) this evening which makes today our sunniest day of this month so far to such an extent that this isn't all that far away from having doubled our sunshine total for this entire month in just a single day even though today was still not actually as sunny as it can be at this time of the year. That in turn just goes to show how ridiculously dull for this time of the year that the first week of this month actually was.

As I write, the temperature here in Edinburgh is still a very warm 22°C.

Humidity is a little up with a dp 18C

From the MetO daily extremes list :

Highest maximum temperature Wisley 33.8 °C

Yesterday topped out at 30.5C here, a late finish (just before 6 PM). 

It's now again back to the typical summer weather down here, i.e. clear and calm. It's very warm, 17.8, dew 15.9, and the low so far is 17.7.

With that, we would be able to once again achieve our highest daily sunshine total of this month so far although with the days now getting shorter, it is now getting more difficult to get our highest daily sunshine total of the year.

It will therefore be interesting to see how hot today ends up becoming as a result. The Met Office have actually upgraded today's forecast maximum to around 26°C, but they have also downgraded tomorrow's forecast to just 24°C when we are expecting to see more of a North Sea influence come into play and of that comes off, there will once again be no official heatwave here in Edinburgh.

As I write, the temperature here in Edinburgh is generally a relatively cool 12°C but due to the urban island heat effect, the botanic gardens in Edinburgh are a bit warmer at around 15°C as the botanic gardens are fairly close to the city centre whereas the other stations such as Gogarbank are located more on the outskirts of the city.

Lovely morning for a run with the sun coming up over the hill at 5:15, the farmers were already out on the combines working hard as usual.

That cloud cover isn't amounting to much and the skies are still largely clear but this does mean that even on a day like today when we're expected to see a peak in our temperatures, we still cannot get a completely sunny day from sunrise to sunset such as what we saw quite of lot of last year and also during the spring of this year. That of course, is also another big part of the reason why we can't seem to get a sunnier than average month at the moment.

Nevertheless, the temperature here in Edinburgh is now around 16°C as I write.

Hopefully we'll reach above 25 C again today

Overnight low 14.4c

I had good intentions of getting up early for a run but didn't manage it before the school run chaos, and it's too hot now! Feels like it's going to be a scorcher - clear blue sky, not much breeze and already just nudging 27C.

High res models reckon 34C max here but it feels like it could beat that.