21.8c max. 26.9c

1018.1mb rising

This makes today only the first day since 14 July 2026 in which the temperature has failed to reach 20°C anywhere in Edinburgh, thus ending a run of 13 days in a row in which 20+°C maximums were always being recorded at Gogarbank and/or the botanic gardens.

This is a run which started at Gogarbank at a time when the botanic gardens was in a run of a whole week without any 20+°C maximums due to cooler winds coming in from off the North Sea. After that though, the botanic gardens then joined the party with a run of 9 20+°C maximums in a row being recorded there. Towards the end of that runs, it was the botanic gardens which kept that run going as that run at Gogarbank was ended and even today, we weren't all that far away from seeing the run continuing at the botanic gardens.

Sadly, I can't give a Similar update for here in the Borders just now as there has been no data from Charterhall since 6pm BST (17:00 UTC) this evening.

Here in Hawick, we had a further drizzly shower in the latter part of this afternoon and it continues to be mostly cloudy here with just the odd sunny intervals.

Currently around 18°C here.

Albeit not as hot as previously (and officially not hitting heatwave threshold) it's a remarkable run with 6 of the last 8 days being either 27.4 or 27.5c, the other 2 were 29s.

It's like it's the new norm down here. 35 days without rain is not normal in anyone's books.

16.2, dew 14.7, following a low of 15.4. Yesterday's high was 27.4.

Looks like we will have more rain today, Wednesday & Thursday!

John will be pleased to know that 20 C was reached at Swanston before 10am! The maximum there is now 21.3 C

I think it's more of a case of what I'm expecting rather than what I'm pleased with, and today has brought about a return to normal service with our return to daily 20+°C maximums once again.

There was some overnight rain down here which cleared away quite early in the day to leave us with some cloud and increasing amounts of sunshine.

I can see that the winds at Edinburgh Gogarbank have been gusting up to around 35 mph from the WSW whereas down here, it's not been quite as windy as that with the gusts only getting up to around 31 mph from the SSW at Charterhall.

Currently around 20°C down here (my Apple Watch and the data from Charterhall are both in full agreement with that).

Largely sunny 

Nice breeze blowing 

Edit: I forgot to add it's rather humid with the DP. approaching 20C

Humidity here is only 44%, DP is 17c.

Here in the Borders, today's maximum temperature at Charterhall was 25.81°C.

Two more days of these sorts of temperatures and first official heatwave since 2022 would then be recorded at the botanic gardens and at Charterhall (it's possible though, that at least one official heatwave might have been recorded at Charterhall since then, but I would need to check that).

From the latest radar maps, I can see that there's been some rain in Edinburgh during this evening but as per usual, with absolutely nothing where I am. I have no doubt though that this part of the world will start to experience plenty of interesting weather once I return home next Monday with Edinburgh no longer getting any interesting weather after that, because that is just my luck.

Current temperatures as I write are 19.7°C at Charterhall, 16.5°C at Edinburgh Gogarbank, around 18°C at Edinburgh Airport, 16.3°C at the botanic gardens in Edinburgh and 16.6°C at Swanston. 

Rain? What's that? Truly a two-tier nation

16.5, dew 15.2, following an overnight low of 14.3 (which explains the dew on the grass). Yesterday's high was 29.6, another hot day.

It's currently raining still and 16 C after a low of 16 C

More heavy rain to come this afternoon

In complete contrast to that though, it’s another day here in the Borders, but with the same old weather and with absolutely nothing happening here as per usual.

There hasn’t even been any overnight rain here this time and it continues to remain bone dry here as per usual.

As I have been saying all along, I should really just ignore what the weather is like elsewhere and any forecasts which suggest that it might rain here because it is clear that our weather is just not going to change one single bit here during the rest of my time down here.