29.3C here!

Top temp was 26.9C but a subtle change in sea breeze has seen temps drop down 25.5C.

Not a cloud seen all day.

Should add it's fairly humid with dew points around the 15C mark.

Stunning day with cloudless skies again. Warmer than expected and it's proper dry heat as well!

27.7 C here with the RH at 31% 

Yep, very dry!  Manchester airport reading 28 C @ 20% RH Dew point 3 C atm. 

26.8C max and still 26.0C now, under clear skies- not milky like the last two days, and a warm breeze.

The Sun is still shining just now with 11.8 hours of sunshine having being recorded for today so far at Edinburgh Gogarbank as at 5pm this afternoon.

As Jerry was saying a short while ago though, there is a lot of high level cirrus cloud which also thickens into cirrostratus in a number of places, and this is starting to get in the way a bit to the extent that this has already knocked 6 minutes off the sunshine total for the last hour (which is why I am reporting 11.8 hours instead of the 11.9 hours of sunshine which we would otherwise have had).

At this stage, we are still on course for today to be the sunniest day of the year so far as things stand but in order for that to happen, we can't afford to have any more than a further 12 minutes being knocked off our sunshine total in this fashion between now and sunset.

Earlier on, I would have said that it was more or less a dead cert that today would end up being the sunniest day of the year so far. With all of this high cloud which is around though, it has now become touch and go as to whether this will end up being the case or not.

My gut feeling is that the closer that we get to sunset, the more that this high cloud will get in the way and blot out that sunshine, so I have a feeling that this could end up scuppering our chances in the end, of today being the sunniest day of the year so far.

However, today will still go down as the warmest day of the year so far at all three of my local stations as the temperature at 5pm this afternoon was 25.4ºC at Edinburgh Gogarbank, 25ºC at Edinburgh Airport and 25.9ºC at the botanic gardens in Edinburgh.

Is that what is showing on the Vis Sat I wonder?

https://en.sat24.com/HD/en/gb/visual

Unbroken sunshine, very warm in light winds, 27c.

Yes that's it. It's quite a wide fire. Can see it from my window. Hate that my house is hot and stuffy and I can't open the windows! 

I hope it doesn't bring fog in but seems unlikely, and humidity has been in the 30s much of the day.

There are no actual weather fronts around which I know of, but this is the sort of massive drop in temperature which we would normally only see when there is a cold front moving through with an associated band of heavy and possibly, torrential rain and of course, there is nothing like that around.

Thanks to that thin high cloud which is still around, we have lost another 6 minutes from our sunshine total during the last hour so as at 7pm this evening, a total of 13.7 hours of sunshine had been recorded for today so far at Edinburgh Gogarbank with our chances of seeing today being our sunniest day of the year so far now looking really shaky, especially as there is now a growing risk that this wind from off the North Sea could bring in some low cloud and haar which really would kill those chances off altogether if that happened.

Today's maximum temperature was 25.4ºC at Edinburgh Gogarbank, 25ºC at Edinburgh Airport and 25.9ºC at the botanic gardens in Edinburgh which at least, means that today will go down as the warmest day of the year so far at all three of my local stations.

As at 7pm this evening though, the temperature has now dropped very sharply to 18.2ºC at Edinburgh Gogarbank, 17ºC at Edinburgh Airport and 17.2ºC at the botanic gardens in Edinburgh.

Evening 

A dry, warm day with unbroken fierce sunshine and a max of 23.9c.

Currently clear

18.4c

RH 65%. Dewpoint 12c

Pressure 1025.4 Hpa steady

Wind - Calm

Rain - Nil

Another perfect summer's day. Maxed out at 21.9 at 1.30pm.  Cloudless, gentle ENE breeze.  Strong sunshine and comfortable conditions

Currently 16.9. Overnight low was 9.9. 70%RH.

I mentioned in my last post that our chances of today being the sunniest day of the year were looking very shaky. That was at just after 7pm this evening and by 8pm, it was all over on that front as that hour yielded just 42 minutes of recorded sunshine at Edinburgh Gogarbank.

Just to rub that in as well, there has been nothing in the way of sunshine recorded since then at Edinburgh Gogarbank even though the Sun was shining here for a short while before it set. The overall result of this was that a total of 14.4 hours of sunshine was recorded for today in the end at Edinburgh Gogarbank.

That is still enough to make today the second sunniest day of the year so far. However, it had looked for so long as though today was going to be the sunniest day of the year and it is just a shame that what had mostly been a lovely day has ended on such a disappointing note.

The return of easterly winds means that we will probably see the return of more easterly muck in the morning, When you also consider the fact that we are now past the longest day, I will therefore be very surprised now if yesterday's sunshine total which made that day the sunniest day of the year so far is beaten at any point in time during the rest of this year even if the rest of this summer is mostly sunny.

I did say that yesterday's sunshine total would be very hard to beat, and today has proved that point really well.

In addition to that, it is also a lot cooler than what it was earlier on today, so the temperature at 10pm tonight was 13.1ºC at Edinburgh Gogarbank, 12ºC at Edinburgh Airport and 13.4ºC at the botanic gardens in Edinburgh which now makes it hard to believe that today actually was the warmest day of the year so far here in Edinburgh.

Seems like it’ll be shortlived looking at the models, so best make the most of it.