After such a hot and sunny day, this evening has been a bit of an anti-climax apart from the sight of a distant flash of lightning from a nearby line of thunderstorms which refused to pass over this part of the world. That was generally a much cloudier period, but the skies have cleared once again now although it remains very hazy and very humid.
The end result of this is that a total of 9.9 hours of sunshine was recorded for today in the end at Edinburgh Gogarbank, but with nothing at all in that department since 6pm this evening although this was still enough to make today our second sunniest day of this month.
However, it is the temperatures which have made the biggest headlines here as today's maximum temperature was a very impressive 30.9°C at Edinburgh Gogarbank, 23°C at Edinburgh Airport and 26.1°C at the botanic gardens in Edinburgh, so there was quite a massive range of temperatures across all of my three local stations during today.
Today was officially the hottest day on record here in Edinburgh, and today's maximum temperature at Edinburgh Gogarbank has set a new all time record for the highest ever recorded temperature at that particular station, so today is clearly massive odds on to be hottest day of the year there once we get to the end of this year.
Yet, today was only the second hottest day of this month at the botanic gardens in Edinburgh.
The temperatures have dropped quite a lot during this evening, especially at Edinburgh Gogarbank where such a drop in the temperature would normally be enough to make it quite cold. However, it was so hot there to begin with that even with that massive drop in the temperature, it is still very warm and humid here.
With that in mind, the temperature at 10pm tonight was 19.4°C at Edinburgh Gogarbank, 18°C at Edinburgh Airport and 18.3°C at the botanic gardens in Edinburgh.
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25 July 2019 21:51:33
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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.