This is turning out to be a very frustrating day indeed because I mentioned earlier on that I could really do with some rain here to cool things down here. Some rain has just moved up from the south but rather annoyingly, it has passed just to our east and continues to refuse to fall in this part of the world whilst many other parts of the UK have at least had some rain during the last 24 hours with even some thunderstorms in places.
Because we are just not getting that rain here, I am still sweltering and although we don't have those 30+°C temperatures which we had during yesterday, it is still too warm for my liking.
In fact, all that has happened during today is that the day here, has descended into yet another dull and overcast borefest with constant grey skies and with nothing which is even remotely interesting in terms of our weather actually, so this surely has to remove any doubts about where I live here in Edinburgh being the most boring part of the UK on average when it comes to our weather (or rather, the lack of any sort of "interesting" weather on this occasion).
The result of this is that the rather disappointing total of just 2.1 hours of sunshine has been recorded for today at Edinburgh Gogarbank as at 5pm this afternoon.
Today's provisional maximum temperatures based on the hourly readings from weathercast.co.uk are 23.9°C at Edinburgh Gogarbank (where it is a lot cooler than those record breaking temperatures which were recorded there during yesterday), 25°C at Edinburgh Airport (which is actually hotter than what it was there during yesterday) and 24.8°C at the botanic gardens in Edinburgh (which is only slightly cooler than yesterday).
Meanwhile, the temperature at 5pm this afternoon was 21.1°C at Edinburgh Gogarbank, 21°C at Edinburgh Airport and 21.9°C at the botanic gardens 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.