Ditto, 29.2 here. The wind has gone from SW'ly to NW'ly (very light) and hopefully that means a NE'ly will be coming along soon... I can but hope!

EDIT - it peaked at 30.3 and it's now 29.5 and falling, with a NNE'ly. 

Currently 29C and a little more humid than of late.

Met office have another 6 more days after today of 29/30C for us. 

Date record for today is 32.7C set in 2010, which looks like being demolished.

At this rate, we might not even need any North Sea influence in order to scupper our chances of an official heatwave because that could easily end up happening as early as today just as a result of there being too much cloud and/or too much wind around which are those same things which all too often, scupper our chances in the winter of getting a frost.

That is why it would have been better if we could have got rid of that wind and cloud cover altogether.

At the botanic gardens, everything is still well on course with a current temperature of 24.9°C as I write but the temperature at Gogarbank is currently stuck at around 23°C and has barely budged at all from that over the last couple of hours.

However, Swanston is still on course at the moment with a current temperature of 24.6°C.

These temperatures are currently 25.1°C at Edinburgh Gogarbank, 25°C at Edinburgh Airport, 25.6°C at the botanic gardens in Edinburgh and 25.4°C at Swanston.

This means that if similar temperatures are recorded here tomorrow, an official heatwave will be recorded here in Edinburgh and there's still a chance with all of this, that today could actually end up being slightly hotter than yesterday.

The Met Office are still not quite going for that heatwave to be confirmed tomorrow as their prediction for tomorrow is only around 24°C but that might well depend on how quickly any North Sea influence kicks in and at the moment, this is something which could go either way.

EDIT:

If anyone knows why too much wind from the SW in these parts always scuppers our chances of a frost in winter but never seems to stop the temperatures from rising in the summer (as we've seen here), I would be more than happy to learn about those reasons here.

The live data page for that station which I can view here  shows a maximum of 26.4°C as recorded at 3:35pm BST (14:35 UTC) but the same page shows that the temperature there has now dropped back to 25.3°C and since that isn't a main Met Office SYNOP station, a maximum of 27°C or above for there seems unlikely.

Nevertheless, I have compared that with the collected data at that station's website and from there, I can see that Swanston has had its second hottest day of this month so far today and its third hottest day of this year so far.

As with the other main stations here in Edinburgh, an official heatwave will be recorded at Swanston if tomorrow's maximum temperature for there either reaches or exceeds 25°C.

24 C at 1715, reached 26.6 earlier

Hot for Leeds!