Yet another autumnal day here. Very windy with drizzle at times and no sun. 17 C was the Max. A poor first few days of July
Originally Posted by: Crepuscular Ray
It's still not been a completely sunless day at Edinburgh Gogarbank though (Swanston might well be a completely story of course) as a total of 0.2 hours of sunshine was still recorded there and although that is very little, that is still enough to prove what I keep on saying on here that regardless of how everything pans out in terms of our weather, the Sun always seems to find a way being seen at some point in time virtually every single day.
I haven't seen any actual sunshine today other than some occasional brightness in the middle part of the morning but actual data like that clearly never tells lies.
It has been a very windy day today and today's highest mean wind speed was around 26 mph from the SW at Edinburgh Airport but rather remarkably, there has been none of the 40+mph gusts today which we would normally get with that.
There's also been very little rain here either. It's only really been in the last wee while that we've finally go to see a bit of that, but even that has barely even dampened the ground here. Once again, we have seen that same old story which has been all too familiar recently because although there has been a lot of rain around in Scotland today, most of that just keeps on being focused on those more western areas which don't actually need it now whilst that rain just isn't really getting through to those parts of the east which need it the most and if our current water scarcity situation (which I've been discussing on other threads) is to be alleviated in any way, that is something which needs to change.
Today's maximum temperature at Edinburgh Gogarbank was just 17.3°C which continues our fairly cool start to the month, although it should be remembered that June actually started off on an even cooler note before still going on to much warmer than average in the end with that largely being helped by us experiencing our hottest June day on record here in Edinburgh.
Tonight is rather warm, humid and muggy with the temperature still at around 16°C here in Edinburgh.
The north of Edinburgh, usually always missing out on snow events which occur not just within the rest of Scotland or the UK, but also within the rest of Edinburgh.