SW Saltire

Loved last night. Mild but very wet, dark and windy. Autumn has arrived Looks like a lot of rain in my neck of the woods tomorrow, quite the contrast from last week!

Pretty hideous. 26.7c atm, dewpoint over 19c. Full cloud cover and RH still holding over 70%. Much preferred earlier in the week such as Monday when it was sunny, 22/23c with low humidity.

Cracker again, very humid with dewpoint just over 16c most of the day which made the 23.8c max feel far warmer. Highest i’ve been since June due to work and then injury, hopefully get munros in from next month. Some view from Criffel (570m):

Topped out at 27.1c here, a cracker

Been a brilliant spell of weather as covered by folk over the last couple of days. Some warmth for all of us. Yesterday hit 24c on the button, today has been the warmest so far and still rising at 24.6c currently. Broke my hand so this warm spell is quite welcome to distract from the boredom until I can get the cast off! Had a lovely walk in Ae forest yesterday:

Fully agree. I always say Summer (certainly for Western Scotland) is mid May - start of July. Usually goes on the turn during July (humid, muggy and wetter) and just declines. Can think of a few good highland shows for example, certainly some baking hot Cheshire show years, Cumberland show (which are 3rd week in June or earlier). Whereas Dumfries show is first week in August, i’ve gone pretty much all my life. Very very few sunny days. Usually cloudy with a chance of rain. As others have said, Autumnal is the word. Was working at 3am last night, 8c and I was getting the nightshift shivers. Weekend just gone was a shocker for July, monthly rainfall now at 141mm so about 155% of average.

There’s a SEPA station at Craigdarroch which is pretty much Moniaive. 95.6mm is what the site is sitting at for July so far. Are you sure your rainfall gauge is accurate? Next 36 hours look like an absolute washout but was lovely in the sun this morning.

Yesterday and today have been lovely summer days although didn’t quite breach 20c yesterday peaking at 19.8c. Far rather this weather than a heatwave. 105.6mm so far (avg 93mm) and a fair chunk more expected over the weekend so going to be a wet month which was needed.

Haven’t posted in a while as there hasn’t been much to say. June slowly deteriorated but still finished well above average. July has, by contrast, been very cool overall. 25.4mm overnight, very wet.

An Incredibly humid feel despite the lower temperatures (currently 17.4c). Should still reach about 21c today. Welcome rain overnight, 17.4mm according to the nearby SEPA site. As others have said, it’s a start but only that really. More rain forecast for tomorrow so hopefully a fairly wet week eases things.

A very humid max of 24.1c, quite a bit of sunshine today. However far more importantly, within the last 5 minutes, the rain has ARRIVED! Unsure how much we’ll get but I pray it’s a lot.

Was just south of Strathaven today, nice areas of countryside when you turn off the M74 at Lesmahagow. Fields still pretty Green with some decent growth, no deep yellow like back home. There was even a few spots of what the locals were calling ‘rain’. I’m unsure if I knew what it was… not enough to wet the ground. Cloudy, muggy and at home it’s just over 22c. Rain please arrive.

Yesterday was a little cooler than of late at 25.6c. Today warmer again, 27.4c. We’ve now started to cloud over. Average max for the first 16 days of June 2023 - 24.7c. Incredible. As Shuggee said above, 7 days in a row of > 25c. 2 days earlier in the month made over 24c. Thankfully, it’s looking like cooler and most importantly wetter conditions will start to push in from the West. Daily maxes still look like reaching the low 20s.

Back home made 26.3c today, sunshine dawn to dusk. Thankfully it was just as good up near Ballachulish. Droving through Glencoe was nothing short of spectacular. Got Sgorr Dhearg ticked off however sadly underestimated how much water we’d need for the two munros and decided we would have to miss the second one, i’ll come back for it. IMG_8910.MOV

Amazing find! I’ve made a note of that. I see today Threave made just over 28c. I was pretty similar, 28.9c. The easterly breeze picked up and stopped us going higher. Notably less humid but still too hot. Looking forward to a cooler few days although still on the warm side (25/26).

Massive East/West split. I’m at an average max, after yesterday's record breaker (locally for June - which was posted above), of 24c. I get very similar weather to the NW of England and i’d say the length of this dry spell has been exceptional. I’ve certainly never known anything like it. People’s opinions regarding this month will be polarised. In terms of ‘summer’ weather then i’d give it 10/10. The only issue is it’s too dry, we need rain and are not going to get it.

26c last night which was far too hot when having dinner. Thankfully, as a shift worker, in winter I invested in an Aircon unit. A god send. Getting used to the noise now and slept fairly well last night, bedroom kept at a steady 21c all night. Rose back up to 25.6c a short time after I turned it off.

A degree cooler today, the low was 15.7c. Currently 22.3c. Full sunshine and humid. Munros have been postponed for today so a day of heat awaits

@dryfie You were correct, Threave (Nearest station to Dumfries) was the warmest place in the UK today. Warmest day for that station in 60 years apparently. An early start beckons as away up to Ballachulish to get a couple munros in, to be another warm one.

What site can you see the updates for Threave Gardens? I used to check for their max and min but can no longer seem to find their data. Seemed to have maxed out at 30.4c as a breeze picked up. On a day like today, only one place to take the dogs:

30.3c Doesn’t seem to be a rogue reading as the weather stations on Wunderground are all reading 30/31. Car reading 31.5c etc. I wish I was going to get the storms though, I think somewhere in Ayrshire/Glasgow will get a cracking evening!

Yes, unsure what the most notable part of this warm spell is. I suspect the lack of rainfall. Even if we include all of May (which had some rain in the first 10 days)… Compared to the average for the two months May (84.5mm) and June (81.4mm) we are are 16% of average so far. June only having recorded 1.2mm so far (I thought we’d had more on saturday night but SEPA says otherwise) However on the heat front, before today June’s average max is well above average. Interestingly, my nearest met office site (which they don’t release daily data for) has seen it’s average June max rise from 17.4c (1981-2010) to 17.9c (1991 - 2020). We’re currently at 23.42c as a running max for this month which is 5.5c above normal. If we get 30c today then we’d be at an average max of 24c. I see Keswick is top at the moment. It’s currently 28.1c here. Too hot, I far prefer temperatures between 21-24c than this. Pray for a breakdown next weekend

As above! Absolutely roasting already, just hit 21c. Cloudy but sun starting to break through, incredibly humid.

Brilliant post, providing far more data than I could. You can now add yesterday’s 29.7c from Ayrshire for 2023 and as you say we’re not even at mid June. I’ll not go off on a tangent but yes, the lack of official weather stations is very frustrating. Dundrennan is coastal (and 20 miles away to the SW) and Eskdalemuir is 200m asl and about 20+ miles ENE. Neither will reach 30c tomorrow but it’s likely where I live will. I’m sure this picture is reflected all across Scotland but hey ho. Fully agree re rainfall. It’s good some has arrived but far too little. I’ve never seen the ground so burnt looking (which will only be aiding the heat achieved during the day).

Agreed, we’ll be in deep trouble if a proper breakdown doesn’t arrive before the end of June. I wonder if Scotland was as severely affected as England was during 1976, 1995 etc. We’ve surely made a strong start on the lack of rainfall front. I forgot the BBC no longer use the Met Office for their forecasts and got a shock on countryfile when they used down here as one of the 4 locations for the 5 day forecast. Their prediction for tomorrow will surely be too high but quite shocking to see all the same. Would pretty much tie with last year which was a record (see photo - 32c). Even if we ‘only’ get 30c, it does seem so easy now to get around 30c. I feel like only 10/20 years ago we had to build to push much above 25c… a worry