That said though, today has started off on a mostly cloudy note. The result of this is that regardless of what happens today, this month will now go down as being duller than average as there is not enough available daylight now to be able to bring this month's sunshine total up to the 1991-2020 May average.

In the last couple of weeks, we have seen a very gallant effort to escape with a sunnier than average month anyway but in the end, that massive deficit from earlier in the month has ended up being just too much.

Nevertheless, this has still been an exceptionally sunny spring anyway with this month being its only duller than average  month and since there are some breaks in the cloud cover just now, I won't be the least bit surprised if we end up with a decent sunshine total for today anyway to finish off this spring.

As I write, the temperature here in Edinburgh is currently around 15°C.

We are still seeing some fleeting sunny intervals at times, but there was some showery rain for a short period of time this morning which resulted in a total of 1.4 mm of rain being recorded at Edinburgh Gogarbank. That isn't very much and as the rest of today is expected to be increasingly dry, this month's rainfall totals are clearly going to be below average yet again with the final totals for this spring also being below average. Nevertheless, this has actually been our first recorded rainfall for quite a long time, and is very badly needed in these parts.

In addition that, today is also shaping up to be cooler than yesterday with a temperature of only around 16°C here in Edinburgh as I write.

25.1, dew 12.3 (so at least not as sultry), with quite a gusty WSW'ly wind (and not the WNW'ly forecast).

EDIT: Still 22.6 at 7PM. It'll be interesting to see, whenever it eventually reports, if Brogdale gets the number one spot today.

As at 7:40pm BST (18:40 UTC), a total of 5.1 hours of sunshine had been recorded for today so far at Edinburgh Gogarbank with the rest of the day after my last post consisting of just the usual mix of cloud cover and occasional sunny intervals.

Even the temperature is no different from what it was yesterday at around 15°C here in Edinburgh.

This is where the meteorological summer of 2026 begins but as I write, the Sun doesn't appear to be as keen to be shining here as it was during the spring now that we have just entered into the actual summer which is just like the thing and absolutely Sod's Law given that this is when more than any other season, we would actually want the Sun to be shining.

Indeed, this summer has started off on a dull, damp and dreary note here in Edinburgh after some overnight rain.

Last night's (that was the officially the final night of the meteorological spring according to actual stats) overnight minimum temperature was 12.29°C at Edinburgh Gogarbank and 12.63°C at the botanic gardens in Edinburgh.

Currently around 13°C here in Edinburgh

All in all, a dismal start to this summer here in Edinburgh but despite the lack of sunshine, it is warmer just now than it was at this time yesterday with the temperature currently at around 18°C.

Last night's overnight minimum temperature was 12.84°C at Edinburgh Gogarbank and 13.56°C at the botanic gardens in Edinburgh

Currently around 15°C here in Edinburgh

4mms in total.☂️

8mm of rain so far this morning to add to the 24mm overnight and more to come I suspect

Turning into the wettest 24 hours for quite some time

Very different to the extreme hear of 35.1C exactly 1 week ago

In addition to that, the Sun has also made a little bit of a comeback now, albeit not to any great extent but we even already now have our first 20+°C maximum of this summer at Edinburgh Gogarbank even though today was forecast to be nowhere near as warm as that with everything supposedly going to be cooling down if anything.

As I write though, the temperature here in Edinburgh has now dropped back a little bit to around 19°C