Any chance of a date record? current record for the 15th is 18.2 at Colwyn Bay in 2019.

Nothing from the Met Office Twitter account so far, even though it's a close-run thing...

Mildenhall is also reporting 18, but I don't know whether that's rounded up (or down)...

The temperature's falling slowly here and I suspect we're past the peak of the warmth in general now.

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My phone app says 16c currently in Hull.

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To answer my own question though I don't know whether these sites are validated for record purposes

https://wow.metoffice.gov.uk/ 

At various times 1300 -1400
Horse Guards Parade 21.6C
Ham Garden nr Richmond 20.7C
Clarendon Drive, Chiswick 19.6C
Uxbridge 18.5C

and a lot of 18C+ in the London area - they can't all be wrong!
 

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To answer my own question though I don't know whether these sites are validated for record purposes


https://wow.metoffice.gov.uk/ 

My station's on that site, and no - there's no validation whatsoever, nor is there anyone from the Met Office chasing after you if you record something special (as I did back in "the Beast", you don't get many -14.7s these days!)

and a lot of 18C+ in the London area - they can't all be wrong!
 

It's likely the record has been breached, but the odds on it being at a place with an official station? Quite low, I guess.

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To answer my own question though I don't know whether these sites are validated for record purposes

https://wow.metoffice.gov.uk/ 

At various times 1300 -1400
Horse Guards Parade 21.6C
Ham Garden nr Richmond 20.7C
Clarendon Drive, Chiswick 19.6C
Uxbridge 18.5C

and a lot of 18C+ in the London area - they can't all be wrong!
 

None of those are official. Highest I've seen from an official site is 17.5c at Mildenhall.
 

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None of those are official. Highest I've seen from an official site is 17.5c at Mildenhall.
 

London City reached at least 17.5 too - a shame these reports only show to the nearest whole degree!

https://tgftp.ncep.noaa.gov/weather/current/EGLC.html 

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London City reached at least 17.5 too - a shame these reports only show to the nearest whole degree!

https://tgftp.ncep.noaa.gov/weather/current/EGLC.html 

This is another good site. Mixture of offcial and amateur sites. 

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=http://weatherobs.com/&ved=2ahUKEwjM6rPC062EAxUjUEEAHUvkADwQFnoECBMQAQ&usg=AOvVaw1ALnlEoty8715VYZpSKXLM 
 

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London City reached at least 17.5 too - a shame these reports only show to the nearest whole degree!

https://tgftp.ncep.noaa.gov/weather/current/EGLC.html 

Likewise the official MetO site at Kew Gardens showing a rounded 18C

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Likewise the official MetO site at Kew Gardens showing a rounded 18C

And also St James's Park in London (thank you to Ally Pally Snowman for reminding me of that WeatherObs site - it's a way to see the other official stations).

I note in all the places where a rounded 18 has been reached, it's been accompanied by a marked fall in relative humidity.

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London City reached at least 17.5 too - a shame these reports only show to the nearest whole degree!

https://tgftp.ncep.noaa.gov/weather/current/EGLC.html 

That is same scenario as what we have at Edinburgh Airport because what those two stations have in common is that the raw data is in METAR format rather than BUFR/SYNOP format (you will probably know that already, but this is for the benefit for anyone reading this who doesn't) and for all of those METAR stations (which take in the major airports), temperatures are only ever reported to the nearest whole number of degrees. This is despite the fact that Edinburgh Airport is also on the WMO list (it has a WMO number of '03160').

In addition to that, you can't get any actual minimum or maximum temperatures for the METAR stations as you can for the SYNOP stations and even those stations such as Kew Gardens or the botanic gardens in Edinburgh which aren't on the WMO list, and which therefore have a WMO number that starts with '99'.

Because of that, you can only go by the highest or lowest temperature readings for those stations on any given day which as we all know, are not usually the same as the actual minimum or maximum temperatures.

Furthermore, there is also other data such as rainfall or sunshine totals which you can't get for those METAR stations (at least as far as Edinburgh Airport is concerned). I'm pretty sure that there was a time in the past though when you could get rainfall data for Edinburgh Airport.

Having said that though, Edinburgh Gogarbank (which has a WMO number of '03166') is very close to Edinburgh Airport to such an extent that I'm still able to get a good enough picture of the conditions in that area anyway, just from the data from Edinburgh Gogarbank.

Back on topic and once again, our so-called "winter" which has now become more or less a complete non-event here, has really gone down the toilet pan once again as the temperature here in Edinburgh has now climbed to around 12°C.😡

It's still overcast and so our latest permacast hell goes on, but the earlier rain has now cleared away for now.
 

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Meanwhile up in the wilds, it looks like we reached 12 C late this afternoon after the rain stopped which is our warmest day of 2024 I believe. No sun though 😞

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Edit.....our 2nd warmest day, we had 12.4 C on 23rd Jan!

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Looks like 18.1 was the max today, unless one of the "only reads once a day" stations pips it tomorrow.

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Looks like 18.1 was the max today, unless one of the "only reads once a day" stations pips it tomorrow.

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About as close as you can get to a date record . 

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Grey and damp here and the second warmest day of the month with a high of 9.9°C in the garden. Currently 8.5°C. All a bit nondescript.

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Looks like 18.1 was the max today, unless one of the "only reads once a day" stations pips it tomorrow.

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Thankfully, nowhere has got up to around 21°C so far like what happened back in February 2019 as it would be extremely concerning from a climate change perspective if that was to happen again so soon afterwards.
 

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There may well be a date record amongst one of the stations that reports less frequently. 17 to 18c fairly widely is fairly ridiculous for mid February - happening more and more often though.

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9.0C, clear and sunny.

Any other year, the lack of cloud would have given a white frost.

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10.2C cloudy and drizzly

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Yesterday there was a rain warning here for Saturday and Sunday - it looked a bit silly then but more so now as with just 2mm most of it seems to have gone through and tomorrow is mainly sunny so far as I can see.
The warning area had shrunk to the south only by this morning mind.

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