According to the above data which I have posted for Edinburgh Gogarbank, it had looked for a while as though we weren't going to get that record. The temperature got to around 27°C at around 12 noon on that day and it then looked as though it was refusing to rise any further than that as it then dropped slightly during the following hour.
However, there was then quite a sharp rise in the temperature at around 2pm on that afternoon up to around 31°C and it looks as though the record was then beaten at some point on either side of that hour. The temperature then dropped back to around 28°C but then went back up again to around 30°C by the end of that afternoon before the 18z SYNOP then confirmed that the record had been beaten as shown in the TMax column in the above table.
Given the up and down nature of the temperature at that time of the day, it would have been interesting to see what might have happened had it not been for those brief periods when the temperature kept dropping back, and that gives me a lot of belief that this was a record which is more than capable of being beaten.
Before then, I didn't actually know anything about SYNOP codes and therefore, couldn't understand why the actual record was higher than the highest temperature which was being recorded on that day.
Luckily though, a few very good members of this forum then taught me all about that and it was thanks the help which I got back then, that I was then able to use the various tools which I use on here today for all of my various reports on here.
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17 July 2022 20:46:45
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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.