Edinburgh has never had an official tropical night as far as I know, but it turns out that Scotland which has had at least two tropical nights in the past.

To that end, I have come across this BBC report from 26 July 2019, the day after Edinburgh had its hottest day on record with a maximum temperature of 31.6°C at Edinburgh Gogarbank (you will probably also recognize that as being the same day that the UK as a whole, had its hottest day on record with the botanic gardens in Cambridge being the location where that actually happened).

It turns out that on the following night, Scotland had its warmest night on record at that time (I don't know of that having been beaten since then) with an overnight minimum temperature of 20.9°C at Achnagart in NW Scotland, a location which you wouldn't exactly typically associate with high temperature records.

Prior to that, the previous record was 20.6°C but for Scotland as a whole to have had its warmest night on record last night, that above value of 20.9°C is the figure to beat. From what I have read on one particular post on this thread though, that is not likely to have happened on this occasion.

Bingley is often used to try and argue that Leeds is wetter than Manchester. A quick google search will try and tell you that’s the case, when obviously it is total nonsense. 

I do wonder how hot the northern cities will get early next week , I suspect some records will fall. I’ll be keeping an eye on this link, http://whitworth.cas.manchester.ac.uk/current/index.html

It’s as accurate as we’ll get for the inner city. 

Conversely it feels much fresher here with cloud cover and a moderate breeze. Forecast still says 31 but it doesn’t have the feel of a hot day yet. 

25c here already, 3c higher than this time yesterday 

It's a shame regarding the lack of stations.
2019 - Sheffield recorded a record maximum as it has a weather station, but impossible for records to be broken where there is no longer a station.

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I think the old adage that just because something didn't happen it doesn't mean that it shouldn't have happened springs to mind.

Excess deaths from the 1976 heatwave were around 20% above normal. 

Should also add that 32c is very different to 40c 

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he excess death figure  for heat related deaths was higher for 2020 so we are not exactly learning anything then?

 Long spells of hot weather will kill people

Absolutely brutal. 

Data from EPS I believe, same as BBC. 

The front is clearly well ahead of schedule. Large parts of England are now under cloud.

ST James's Park had already hit 27.3C by 10am (2100Z-0900Z max, hourly temp was 26.5C).

Certainly feeling less fresh now with some hazy sunshine coming through.

At 11am local time, Motril on the south coast of Spain was reporting 37.8C with a dewpoint of 22.3C. 

Talking of Spain, the high-res GFS has maxima of 40C or above every day right up until the end of the run at 240 hours. So another 10 straight days of 40C+ temperatures on top of the 5 they have already had.

There is even a potential for rain - this was not forecast. 

We've had some light rain that was not forecast, enough to wet the ground but that's it

All of this is yet more evidence that the weather is always more interesting elsewhere other than here in Edinburgh where our weather (or rather, the lack of any actual "weather" in our case) has now become so boring and uninteresting that the weather front actually passed through here completely unnoticed without even causing a whimper.

A few drops here too.

Amazing day here with no sunshine and temperatures now over 28C. Can't recall this sort of thing here before.

Lows of 20/21C across Leeds last night. Most uncomfortable night since 2019.

Much cooler today, currently 23C with cloudy skies. A few spots of rain earlier that amounted to nothing. 

31.4c in Charlwood.

On for the hottest day of the year.

I'm in central London and its roasting.  If it was a clear day we would easily see 35c today.

Possibly. Depends on the cloud cover. That part of England is clearer than other parts now but cloud appears to be moving across soon. 

24c here.

Been spotting with rain here which was not forecast. Weather today like Baltimore in that you look out the window at the grey skies thinking , not so hot , then you go outside and it hits you . Last time i was there it was about 92f and totally cloudy and dry but roasting

31.4c

light rain 😵‍💫