Claire Nasir from the Met Office has just announced on Channel 5 that Scotland has provisionally had its hottest day on record today with a temperature of 34.8°C at Charterhall here in the Scottish Borders, although that has still to be verified and might not be officially confirmed until tomorrow.
However, that is in line with what we had here in Hawick, so that looks like a perfectly valid record to me.
Charterhall is on the main list of stations which is normally found at weatherobs.com, and is one of the stations which I always refer to as one of the nearest stations to where I am here in Hawick, although I haven't been able to find any data for there recently.
Perhaps, that might be the reason why there might be some doubt in that data and why it needs to be verified.
Originally Posted by: johncs2016