Diurnal range of 20.6c, pretty sure it was only 7 or so years ago I recorded my first 20+c day, seems easy now with the right conditions.

So April won't quite beat the 23.2C here on 25th in 2011.

In addition to that, a total of 11.8 hours of sunshine has also been recorded for today at Edinburgh Gogarbank.

Even as late as 8:30pm BST (19:30 UTC) this evening, the temperature here in Edinburgh was still at around 21°C so this could well be a very sticky night ahead and an uncomfortable one for sleeping.

Other recorded maximum temperatures in Edinburgh are 23.91°C at the botanic gardens and around 23°C at the airport, so Swanston takes the top prize on this occasion as the warmest place in Edinburgh with the figure which you have quoted.

The temperature has now finally dropped back to around 15°C here in Edinburgh but it’s rather late at night now and it’s still feeling a bit muggy and humid.

11.1c low 9.1c

1017.9mb steady

Cirrus high above but otherwise sunny.

Thermometer needs hard reset, will do later

Thermometer needs hard reset, will do later

Today, we have entered into what is actually only the final month of the meteorological spring although it has felt in recent days as though we're already well into the actual summer even though the start of that is still a whole month away from now.

Last night, it had thankfully cooled down by quite a bit with an overnight minimum temperature of 7.5°C at Edinburgh Gogarbank.

Today is once again starting off with plenty of hazy sunshine and only some high cloud around.

Currently around 10°C here in Edinburgh.

Meanwhile, the temperature is now up to around 14°C here in Edinburgh.

Not sure if this is close to you CP but the Irish April record did go yesterday 25.9c in Athenry, County Galway.

Fresher air moving in now

Managed a peak of 22.3 C at 2.15 pm yesterday but still felt surprisingly chilly in the NE breeze when I went for a bike ride along the coastal strip of Hythe, most likely on account of low dewpoint.

That sunshine is still very hazy in nature and as yet, there is still nothing to suggest that the air is actually any fresher just now.

Currently around 17°C here in Edinburgh and rising once again.

More cloud has moved in and on those odd occasions when the Sun still manages to pop out, it's no longer as hazy as it was this morning.

In addition to that, the temperatures are also refusing to rise any further than where they were a few hours ago, so it's already cooler than it was at this time yesterday.

Currently around 17°C here in Edinburgh which is where we were about three hours ago when I last posted on here.

The cuckoo was a day early and started singing yesterday, they seem to be making a comeback hopefully, we had a few years without one.

As I write this the MetO website still has a confident (but wrong) 27 high for today, and it reckons it should be 22 and sunny right now with a dewpoint of 11C. In reality it's overcast, 18.9 with a dewpoint of 14.6!

The GFS was better than the MetO today, with a high of 22 and more in the way of cloud, although it was nowhere near as cloudy as GFS forecast (it had 100% cloud from 10 AM onwards, which wasn't the case either).

The high ended up as 20.4 - warm, yes, but thankfully not as warm as either model had it. (As a heat-hater, I'm perfectly happy to leave the high 20s until late June onwards, when it's more typical!)

EDIT: Wundermap shows how jammy we were. Yes, these are PWSs, yes, many will over-read, but the overall pattern is clear.

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

There's a line of heavy showers over Co.Durham less than 20 miles away, it's not clear if they were triggered over Lake District or North Pennines, or its the approaching cold front.

That is exactly the same as today's official maximum temperature at Edinburgh Gogarbank but in this instance, the botanic gardens in Edinburgh trump both of those figures with a maximum recorded temperature of 18.06°C.

Regardless of all of that though, today was still much cooler than of late at all of these stations here in Edinburgh.

In addition to that, today wasn't as sunny as of late as a total of just 4.1 hours of sunshine has been recorded for today so far at Edinburgh Gogarbank as at 7:40pm BST (18:40 UTC) this evening and as it is now approaching sunset, the final figure for that isn't expected to be much higher than the one reported here.