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Had hoped to get tickets for the UK big event of the weekend, but afraid it's sold out with all 220K tickets gone. Very local Met Office site is reporting mainly cloudy with a little sunshine and the odd light shower. Max 22c with lights winds suggest it's been a decent enough day. Will have to wait for Dougie Vipond's TV coverage to get a taste of it.

West reservoirs down to 66%, loss of 5% over the week. Data for 16th, so prior to recent showers and storms. Water Resources - Scottish Water WWW.SCOTTISHWATER.CO.UK Big storm at Wick yesterday afternoon, reporting total of 58mm for period 0600-1800GMT. Includes 23.5mm at 1200, 12.5mm at 1300 & 19.5mm at 1400. Unfortunately no additional SEPA sites in the area.

West of Scotland reservoir levels now down to 66%, down 5% in a week. Data from 16th, so prior to recent showers and storms. Water Resources - Scottish Water WWW.SCOTTISHWATER.CO.UK

You're doing plenty as it is. The Scots sites will probably be overtaken within the next week, but Valley is less certain.

Thought I'd check on how a few UK sites are doing: RAF Valley (Anglesey) 244.5 hrs Dundrennan (D&G) 221.7 hrs HMS Gannet (Prestwick) 218.6 hrs Ronaldsway A/P (I-o-M) 215.8 hrs Aldergrove (Belfast) 188.5 hrs (few sunshine reporting sites in NI) Tiree in the Inner Hebrides has reported 146.1 hrs, but is missing five days (3rd-7th June). Not feasible to guess values from other sites.

Odd to read all these tales of super cells etc from elsewhere. Mine was a single Cb, precipitation from which fell from about 1430 to 1530, about 15 mins in any one place, before it all ran out of steam. Radar > 1000 words.

From Lockerbie looking northeast at 1500. Moving away north (towards Moffat?). Poor and distant photo. Small crowd gathered to view.

Looking northeast from Lockerbie 1500, moving away to north.

Very surprised to find half a gale blowing this afternoon, must have misread forecast. Pea netting down, sweetcorn stems snapped and poly tunnel door hinges broken (got used to just leaving the door free and open). Quite a lot of leaves falling, but trees were already in drought stress.

Summarising the SEPA chart at Scottish Rainfall Data - provided by Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) WWW2.SEPA.ORG.UK Rainfall data for Scotland. Limit of heaviest overnight rain is approx SE of line Fraserburgh to Ardnamurchan, and additionally coastal Wick to Inverness. Highest I can find (stand to be corrected) is 45.6mm at Drum. Edinburgh area generally 30mm, and Glasgow 20mm. Dryer areas with less than 10mm Haddington and Thornhill. River Esk level has risen from 18cm to 49cm, but the Annan only from 36cm to 38cm. More to do with the nature and length of them rather than rainfall distribution. Despite around 30mm of rain here, the Dryfe appears unchanged from yesterday.

Way hey! puddles on’t patio, soil moist. No heat change yet, flat clam.

Is this finally going to be it? Week upon week without measurable rain, and now radar suggests it has reached ‘fechen and moving north. Mind you, the radar has been deceitful recently, so we’ll see. Haven’t sprinkled this evening (tmi).

I see in the latest forecast that "Parts of the East and South East have seen hardly any rain since mid-May". So sorry to read that.

Breakdown from the SW proceeding slowly. Measurable rain currently no further than line Jura to Kirkcudbright. By far the highest report was Castle Kennedy, which reported dubious steady heavy rain (21mm) over four hours yesterday afternoon. Site has not reported since, so assumed fault? So: Craigenlee Croft (Portpatrick) 5.2mm, Lagafater Lodge 3.4mm, Brigton 2.6mm, Kirriereoch 2.2mm. Not enough to wet the ground. No ground truth for areas of echoes NE of this line. Edit - Correction, spots of rain five minutes later!

Was looking for sunshine readings for month to date, but could only find England. Long winded using the Ogimet spreadsheets, but here's a couple for 1st to 15th: Prestwick (HMS Gannet) 195.8 hours. Dundrennan Range (D@G, near Kirkcudbright) 197.8.

Thought I'd see what the Scots sites have recorded. Started with Prestwick 195.8 hours, and then Dundrennan 197.8. Too hot to be bothered to continue, but made me wonder if there was a record for first half of month? But then sunshine records are of no value historically. Remember my great uncle telling me he once worked in the Town Clerk's office in Eastbourne. One of his colleagues had the job of 'rectifying' the sunshine cards. This involved extending the burn marks caused by the sun shining with the assistance of a hot wire. Apparently even the Met Office inspectors were unable to spot these additions! Perhaps a new set of records purely using electronic measurements might be useful?

Seek and you will find! Posts in other threads have led me to ‘weatherobs’, which has everything you could wish for. All the main 03xxx stations, along with all the 99xxx climate stations. So there’s Threave Gardens, Logan Botanical Gardens and Auchincruive. Further afield are sites like Achnagart….magic. One or two non official sites which I’m yet to investigate, but excellent job. Plus…… there’s reports from the ferries.

Scotland records hottest day so far as heatwave hits WWW.BBC.CO.UK Threave in Dumfries and Galloway reached 30.7C as the Met Office confirms that Scotland is experiencing a heatwave.

Too kind. Actually I was rather ambitious with my max, and Threave was just beaten to UK top spot. Max ended up as 30.7c (30.1c was simply an hourly report, not the max). Of course that's not it for sure; within the past hour voluntary observers from all over the UK will have been out to their instruments. They will have interrogated their electronics (apparently mercury thermometers were banned many years ago by the UN), and checked the thousands of 2 minute readings over the past 24 hours to ascertain the lowest and highest. Effectively headlines can no longer shout that "the mercury rose to". Only then are the readings sent to HQ. Unfortunately any that exceed those reported previously don't seem to make the headlines. I'm going for Threave Gardens above 30 again today. This seems to be an accurate report: Scotland records hottest day so far as heatwave hits WWW.BBC.CO.UK Threave in Dumfries and Galloway reached 30.7C as the Met Office confirms that Scotland is experiencing a heatwave.

Mistake in mine. The international number for UK stations always starts with 03. So Baltasound in Shetland is 03002, Glasgow 03134 and Leuchars 03171. 03200 onwards is England. These reports are distributed worldwide and finally get back to us via other countries such as Spain. The UK has an additional list which isn’t sent worldwide, with all station numbers starting 99. These include Threave, and are hard to find in real time. Presumably their climate data will be on the Met Office site. A recent BBC Scotland weather headline is mentioning Threave as a hotspot, so they must be privy to the data. Suggest you could also try the SRUC for Crichton data. It’s their land and they take the readings, so the data must be available for them to give away? The Met just provide the accurate calibrated instruments. apologies to others for this local frippery!

How’s this for a long shot? UK max today at Threave Gardens around 32.5c. Although hourly it doesn’t have the usual 03xxx number (like Auchincruive) so doesn’t get onto Ogimet. Wish we could access these 03xxx sites, which also include Edin Bot Gardens.

Totally missed any rain here, so thought I'd check local river levels. Surprised to find not at record lows. SEPA data only found back to 2017: The Annan at Brydekirk: Today 0.37m, record low 0.341m 26/7/21 The Esk at Canonbie: Today 0.20m, record low 0.177m 21/7/22 Some quite substantial rainfall totals in Highland and Grampian yesterday: Drummore of Cantray (Moray) 48.8mm in four hours, including 23mm in one. Sgodachail (Suth) 36.2mm in three hours, including 14mm in one. Culloden 17.6mm, including 10mm in one. Nairn Golf 17.4mm, Lossiemouth 15.8mm, Avochie 14.6mm.

I too saw Country File and nearly fell off my seat. Trouble was that one screen shot included the Dumfries table 32 for Monday, whilst the next, mapped temperatures for Monday had a 27 point value there! Not a regular for Country File, neighbour says Landward is similar, except it’s about the country.

In my case it’s the education of children. Yes, they must be made aware that we are causing global warming, that it’s our own fault and that we must do something about it. But also yes, we should take extreme care not to falsely exaggerate such warming, as this provides ammunition for extremists to claim that GW exists only in the machinations of scientists. If anybody doesn’t want to ‘come from there’ then shame for their own.

I suspect somebody is playing with straw men here, as you’ve neatly demolished your own argument in a single posting. Yes, Heathrow is only a little above several other sites (may actually be lower when they are only reporting to nearest whole degree), but every single one is also an airfield! It’s not until you get a full two degrees cooler at Woburn that you get a meaningful report.