This month is proving so far, to be a month where our weather refuses to go downhill and the same has been true of this summer as a whole up until now. This was demonstrated yet again today as after a completely dull and overcast morning and even with a cloudier end to today, we still managed to get a total of 7.5 hours of sunshine at Edinburgh Gogarbank.
That actually makes today, the second dullest day of this month, and even the dullest day of this month so far at the beginning of the month, still resulted in 6.8 hours of sunshine of being recorded at Edinburgh Gogarbank on that day. That is quite a remarkable statistic for here in Scotland where we're not exactly renowned for getting a lot of sunshine at any time of the year, even with the length of daylight increasing at this time of year, the further north that you go.
As a result of today's sunshine totals, a total of over 100 hours of sunshine has already been recorded for this month so far at Edinburgh Gogarbank (the exact total for this month at the end of today was 100.8 hours of sunshine) and we're not even a third of the way through the month yet. I'm not sure what the all-time record is for the sunniest July on record at Edinburgh Gogarbank, but we surely can't end up being all that far away from that if this keeps up for the rest of this month.
I can also further back that up by confirming that the sunniest July on record at the botanic gardens according to their own website was in 1989 when a total of 263.1 hours of sunshine was recorded in July of that year as the this year's figure at Edinburgh Gogarbank will easily beat that if this carries on for the rest of this month. As far the botanic gardens in Edinburgh itself, I don't have all of the latest data from there but since 87.8 hours of sunshine were recorded there for this month up until the end of Saturday, it appears to be a similar story there.
All in all, this just shows how remarkable this month is turning out to be, and its role in showing us how remarkable a summer this is turning out to be.
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.