Looks like a few stations reporting a tropical night. Especially the East Midlands and NE England. Leeds Bradford Airport may have come close, 200m above Leeds!
Even Edinburgh may have broken it's 'highest minimum' record with 18 C?
Originally Posted by: Crepuscular Ray
No tropical night here in Edinburgh as the temperature did eventually drop to below 20°C at all of my local stations here in Edinburgh.
However, the minimum temperature at Edinburgh Gogarbank was officially confirmed by this morning's 06z raw SYNOP data as 18.2°C.
For the other stations, I can only report the lowest actual temperature reading which was 18°C at Edinburgh Airport, 18.9°C at the botanic gardens in Edinburgh and 18.3°C at Swanston in the south of Edinburgh.
Edinburgh Gogarbank was been around in its current location since 2004 (previous to that, it was located in a different part of Edinburgh and officially named as Edinburgh Craighouse) and looking back at all of the records since then where all of the data has actually been available, the highest minimum temperature which I was able to find was 18.1°C on 6 August 2006.
There are a few instances where a higher minimum temperature has been shown, but those are for nights where there is a lot of missing data and on those occasions, there is therefore not enough data available to determine what the actual minimum temperature was.
As a result, those values have to be disregarded and so the highest minimum temperature which I have found which can be regarded as being valid is that figure of 18.1°C which I have just mentioned.
Since that is lower than last night's overnight minimum temperature, I can conclude from that, that last night may well have been our actual warmest night on record here in Edinburgh although this does not in any way, prove that this is actually the case.
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12 July 2022 06:52:34
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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.