18.6, dew 17.3, the low being 18.1. Yesterday's high was 22.3 which - remarkably - is a fraction of a degree below average!

The house is now 23 up and 21 down, so about as good as can be expected in summer.

Today started off on a dull and overcast note, but we are now seeing increasing amounts of sunshine as the day wears now.

As a result, it's also a bit warmer than at this time yesterday with the temperature currently at around 18°C in Edinburgh more generally, although the more coastal areas are still a bit cooler at around 16°C.

With that in mind, I reckon that we might get back to experiencing a 20+°C maximum today even though the Met Office predictions are still disagreeing with that at the moment, and this is actually shown up really well by the fact that the temperature here in Edinburgh has already reached today's predicted maximum for here despite it still being fairly early in the day.

Top temp so far 29.5C

Over night low was a very pleasant 17C

Breezy 

Dew point around 18C

The fact that there is still too much wind around with that wind also still coming in from off the North Sea is likely to be the biggest issue and I'm also noticing quite a lot more in the way of medium to high cloud filtering down from the north.

All of that has pegged the temperatures back a little bit closer to the coast itself. However, none of that is doing anything to spoil our sunshine in anyway and the temperature at Edinburgh Gogarbank has risen to just below 20°C which means that the actual maximum temperature for there could already be above 20°C once that is confirmed by the raw BUFR/SYNOP data later on.

When I run my various python scripts in preparation for my reports on various other threads such as the monthly, seasonal or annual stats or for precipitation (the latter of this os of course, a complete waste of time now since our rainfall totals are now, never anything else other than below average), those scripts are always for the data for Edinburgh Gogarbank so if today's maximum temperature for there does show as being over 20°C, I will be reporting a 20+°C maximum anyway, regardless of what happens at any of the other local stations.

I suspect further inland, with lower humidity and higher temperatures, the wind will be desiccating!

As at 7:40pm BST (18:40 UTC) this evening, a total of 10.8 hours of sunshine had been recorded for today so far at Edinburgh Gogarbank. Despite the very dull start to the month and despite yesterday's completely sunless day, the totals for recent days have allowed the total for this month so far to catch up to 35.9% of the 1991-2020 July average and we're only 38.9% through this month as I write. With the foreseeable future also looking very sunny at the moment, this month could well be shaping up to bring a return to the usual sunnier than average months at this time of the year after the duller blip over the last couple of months. Last year, that was how it was all the time which just became boring, so that duller blip over the last couple of months did give us a bit of a break from that which at least, kept things a bit interesting for a while but with more sunshine forecast for the coming days, I can see everything just becoming increasingly boring on that front once again.

As for this evening though, there is a lot of medium level cloud around but even with that, we have still seen some decent sunny spells coming through at times.

Currently around 16°C here in Edinburgh

Now brisk F4+  ENE winds and blue skies.

18.8, dew 15.7, last night's low was 17.1 and yesterday's high was an average 23.0.

Several PWS reporting mins of 1 and 2C in upper Donside and Speyside. 

This morning has started off on a mostly cloudy note although the Sun will no doubt be out before too long as it usually always is (it's already in the process of brightening up as I write).

As was the case yesterday, I reckon that the Met Office are once again being over-pessimistic  with today's predicted maximums for here but for now, the temperature is currently around 13°C here in Edinburgh.