Is Scottish Weather as bad as they say?

When the Meteorological Office published the aggregate statistics for July, nobody was surprised to find that it was the hottest July for Scotland as a whole since records began 90 years ago, beating the previous one set in 1983. The highest recorded temperature was 31.3C (88F) on July 19 at Prestwick, though that failed to beat the overall Scottish record of 32.9C (89F) recorded in Greycrook, near the Borders village of St Boswells, in 1993. According to the Met Office, the mean temperature in populated mainland areas was 17C (63F) - that includes the hours of darkness as well as daylight. That was 3C higher than in a typical July. Despite the high temperatures, there was also a fair amount of cloud in Scotland on some of the days, so the number of hours of sunshine recorded in July was "only" 181. That was nowhere near the Scottish monthly record of 297 hours. The Met Office say that August will continue to be warm, but not excessively so.

The picture was made in Morar and show 'The Silver Sands of Morar' at a warm somers day.