That goes to Oslo and a few towns in N Scotland at 12 C

The weather has been kind - and the window-painter has worked interrupted. Rather a nice bright day now, but with a gusty wind. Can't complain.

[from Shropshire]

No garden watering as even the containers feel moist after the recent rains.

I'm going to have to do something about this or you'll have another Richard on your hands!

I'd love to spend Jan, Feb & March in The Algarve (Alvor) and July, Aug & Sept in the south of France or NW Italy

Thanks to Brexit thats my Max allowed but I'm seriously thinking of it for 2025.....anybody else have these dreams? 😎

11°C at around 8:30 am BST is cool for this time of year, but not cold in any way and believe it or not, we have had cooler mornings than that during this summer including the one after that night in June when we even had a ground frost at Edinburgh Gogarbank.

In addition to that, the rain just keeps on refusing to fall here in any great amounts. Any "drizzle" which is around is very difficult to spot and everything is as bone dry here as it normally is here now.

Taking all of that into account and given that every other UK based member of this forum is reporting much higher rainfall totals than what we're getting here in Edinburgh, I'm struggling to see why you have so much to complain about given that there are a lot of members on here who would love to be able to trade their much higher rainfall totals with our weather here in Edinburgh but then, that is only my view and everyone is entitled to their own opinion on that which I fully accept, may well be different from mines.

It is true as well that the temperatures haven't been great but on most days, the temperatures are still turning out close to average on most days and usually higher than expected (sometimes, those have even been amongst the highest temperatures in the whole of the UK including SE England).

My only complaint is the lack of sunshine and as I write, our high "summer" permacast hell goes on with yet more dull and overcast skies. Given that absolutely nothing else is happening here which is even remotely interesting, that just makes our weather as boring and uninteresting as typical Edinburgh weather generally is and on most days, I only need to copy and paste a previous report from most other recent days in order to give an accurate account of the current weather.

Meanwhile, the temperature here in Edinburgh is currently around 12°C.

Nope. But then again I went to northern Alaska to escape the heat several years back, and my summer destinations of choice would all be much further north than here!

It's back to normal summer weather here, FWIW. Clear blue skies, strong sunshine, barely any wind and relatively warm. The only bright spot is that the dewpoint is still relatively low.

20.2, dew 13.4. Last night's low was 12.9 and yesterday's high was 21.9. We'll beat that effortlessly today (MetO raw has 24, as does the text forecast).

Jerry might want to compare himself with Richard but I think this proves the point I was making a wee while ago about the weather being worse elsewhere other than here in Edinburgh as you are normally on average, the more optimistic member of that duo up in Aberdeen.

The MetO raw was spot on! The high today was 23.9, and it's now fallen slightly as the wind veers to come in from the sea.

An unpleasant 27C upstairs, so the aircon will be wheeled out tonight!

It's also hard to imagine that less than 100 miles away to the north it's been a mid-teens day... I'm envious.

Could you not just open the window to let the (relatively) cooler air run though the room, Retron? 

15.2c here currently, with a bit of a breeze and it feels perfect out. 18.6c in the house. 

🤣

The windows have been open all day. It's what happens when you have a shed on top of a bungalow, it gets hot even with a very light breeze.

Not a (big) problem in the old 61-90 days, when 24 or more was relatively rare, but it downright sucks these days. Hence why it's so refreshing to get a 61-90 first half of summer, and why a portable a/c is an absolute essential item. I first bought one 20 years ago and wouldn't be without one these days.

EDIT: Here's a picture of my bungalow when the shed was first added - taken by the previous owners, mid 70s. The windows have been replaced (first with aluminium double glazing in the late 70s, and again with modern uPVC two years ago), but the insulation will be exactly as it was then. Of course, in the mid 70s it was a hell of a lot cooler!

https://ukwct.org.uk/weather/house.jpg 

Still got my jumper on! In the last hour or so the clouds brightened slightly and we've hit 16 C outside and it's 17.3 C inside. At least the rain has fizzled.

I'm leading a walking weekend in Swaledale from tomorrow, looks like waterproofs and warm jumpers will be required maybe 15/16 C on Saturday. Sunday might be a slight improvement 🙄

Lovely little house you have there Retron. 

I don't know how you can suffer through those horrific indoor temps. You are clearly a stronger man than I. I wilt at anything over 18c and literally go into panic mode if the indoor thermo goes beyond 20c. 

I like this summer so far. Very little sun and comfortably warm most of the time, though still a lot more 'sticky' than I would like. I know, however, that you are far more prone to random plumes of hell heat than I, and I don't envy you on that at all. 

It's worth pointing out that at my local station (Swanston), the mean temperature this month so far is 13.2 C which is -1.7 below average and trending downwards

Rainfall is 33.1mm which is 41% and sunshine is 41hrs currently which is 24%. No sun yesterday or today

Conversely, a total of just 20 mm of rain has been recorded at the botanic gardens in Edinburgh during this month along with only around 16 mm at Edinburgh Gogarbank according to SEPA, thus showing that for this part of Edinburgh at least, the rain just keeps on refusing to fall with any great conviction.

However, I fully agree with the other points made here as we come to the end of the second day of our latest mid-summer permacast hell.

In addition to that and since we are now approaching the halfway stage of this month, I can also add that the highest temperature at Edinburgh Gogarbank during this month so far is only 20.7°C which is absolutely abysmal for what should be our warmest month of the year on average.😡

Today's maximum temperature is officially confirmed as 16.6°C which is rather disappointing for this time of the year once again, although I will once again stress that I have seen worse than that, and some members on here are reporting lower maximum temperatures than that.

As I write, the temperature here in Edinburgh is around 16°C.

[in Shropshire]

14.4C, dew 13.3, the overnight low was 14.3. Yesterday's high was 23.9.

Despite patchy rain forecast it has stayed mainly dry especially this afternoon but quite windy from north at times.

High of 14.0c,  can accept that on a day of heavy rain day in July but it's been dry and almost bright at times, yet temperature so suppressed. 13.3c now.