Welcome to St. Swithin's Day.

For those who believe in the Swithin's Day legend, those farmers and growers who are desperate for rain might want it to rain today and then, carry on raining for the next 40 days afterwards.

Others who believe in the St. Swithin's Day legend though who are happy to just see some decent weather might want it to stay dry today, and then for the next 40 days after that.

Luckily though (or unluckily depending on how you view that), I don't think that we've ever come close to see the St. Swithin's Day legend ever hold true either way (although this lend one or two ideas for Kevin Brads as regards to one of famous statistics threads on this forum).

Anyway and back on topic, we actually have a clear night for once, but quite a warm night although the temperature has dropped to 16.6ºC at Edinburgh Gogarbank, 16ºC at Edinburgh Airport and 17.9ºC at the botanic gardens in Edinburgh as at midnight.

Clear & calm.
11.8C, min temp 11.6C.

Clear and sunny. 18.5c

Wind nil

Temp 16.5C

Last night's overnight minimum temperature was 13.1ºC at Edinburgh Gogarbank, 15ºC at Edinburgh Airport and 13.9ºC at the botanic gardens in Edinburgh, so it was milder than the previous night.

This morning is also a bit warm and sticky for my liking and at 8am this morning, the temperature is already at 18.3ºC at Edinburgh Gogarbank, 18ºC at Edinburgh Airport and 18.8ºC at the botanic gardens in Edinburgh.

Some cloud around but good sunny spells.

Temp 22.3C

Pressure 1016.5mb.

Max yesterday 26.8c

Min overnight 11.4c

Once again though, it is really warm here for so early in the day and even as early as 10am this morning, the temperature was already at 21.0ºC at Edinburgh Gogarbank, 21ºC at Edinburgh Airport and 21.3ºC at the botanic gardens in Edinburgh which is unbelievably warm for so early in the day here in Scotland, even at this time of year.

There is a lot more cloud around now but for most of this morning up to just a short while ago, the Sun has been shining defiantly anyway, giving the impression that it was more or less, sticking its two fingers up at the latest forecasts and telling them to f*#k off. The end result of this is that 1.6 hours of sunshine has been recorded for today so far at Edinburgh Gogarbank as at 12 noon.

As the cloud cover has increased though, the Sun has found it increasingly difficult to be seen through it and because of that, the temperature isn't rising by as much now. Therefore, the temperature at 12 noon was 20.7ºC at Edinburgh Gogarbank, 21ºC and 22.8ºC at the botanic gardens in Edinburgh.

Already swept the front and back gardens, power washed the patio, loaded up the green waste bin and put a lamb shoulder on the barbie for this evening.

No more jobs to do. Heading into the paddling pool shortly. Just about a perfect summer day.

Partly Cloudy.  Sunny.   28.1c Humidity 28% rh

999.9 hPa Breeze Westerly 8 mph.

This means that it was always inevitable that the July permacast would eventually get back underway and that is what has happened during the last couple of hours with nothing in the way of sunshine being recorded during that time.

However, that still doesn't mean that the dry conditions has lost that battle just yet because over the last wee while, the rain radar maps have been showing it to be raining here, but without any of that actually being visible here at ground level.

That is important because there is one weather station in Edinburgh (namely the botanic gardens in Edinburgh) which is still technically, in an official absolute drought, and which is now into day 25 of that drought as a result of yesterday being dry. This means that unless we start to see some rainfall actually reaching the ground, Edinburgh is never going to be completely drought-free.

One thing which is happening though, is that the temperatures are now refusing to rise any further and have actually dropped a bit during the last hour or so. For now, the maximum temperatures reached 21.3ºC at Edinburgh Gogarbank, 21ºC at Edinburgh Airport and 22.8ºC at the botanic gardens in Edinburgh.

Meanwhile, the temperature at 2pm this afternoon was 20.4ºC at Edinburgh Gogarbank, 21ºC at Edinburgh Airport and 21.6ºC at the botanic gardens in Edinburgh.

 Temps hovered around a sensible 23 C along with humidity being in the mid 60% with a touch of breeze under near unbroken sunshine here at this coastal edge of Kent. Nice enough to sit outside without the threat of spontaneous combustion - although there was the invasion of the flying ants for a short time.

Mostly sunny, 27.8C

Yep, it's a perfect summer day. I just can't get enough of this weather! 

Some light rain has also finally resulted in 0.4 mm of rain being recorded for today at Edinburgh Gogarbank as at 5pm this afternoon. Once again though, the rain is refusing to fall in the very part of Edinburgh where I live, where it is most badly needed in order to help out those extremely parched grasslands since this is the same area which virtually missed out on Friday's showers.

Some very light rain has been falling at times, but this hasn't been enough to even wet the ground properly. The result of this is that there is still nothing in the way of rainfall being recorded at the botanic gardens in Edinburgh where the absolute drought which is now into its 25th day, therefore gone as a result and until that situation changes, Edinburgh can never be a completely drought-free zone.

Meanwhile, the temperature at 5pm this afternoon was 18.6ºC at Edinburgh Gogarbank, 19ºC at Edinburgh Airport and 19.4ºC at the botanic gardens in Edinburgh, so it has turned a bit cooler over the last few hours.

31C here this afternoon at about 4.30. Sure felt like it as well.

There has been a bit of light rain at times, but nowhere near enough to replenish the parched grasslands and gardens as a total of just 0.6 mm of rain has been recorded for today so far at Edinburgh Gogarbank as at 10pm, but with still nothing at all at the botanic gardens in Edinburgh where it seems as though the absolute drought just will not end.

Meanwhile, the temperature at 10pm tonight was 17.4ºC at Edinburgh Gogarbank, 18ºC at Edinburgh Airport and 18.2ºC at the botanic gardens in Edinburgh so this is turning into another very and sticky night and I am sweating quite a lot as a result of that yet again.