Is Floors Castle the hottest place in Scotland EVER?
New high temperature recorded in walled gardens - day after 19-year-old record broken
Last updated 20th Jul 2022
Scotland appears to have been hotter yesterday than provisional data suggested.
Floors Castle in Kelso - where staff only monitor the weather station once a day - has this morning recorded a high of 35.1 degrees Celsius.
The figure was recorded at the Borders attraction between 2.12pm and 2.24pm on Tuesday, and would make the country's largest inhabited house the hottest place EVER.
It beats the 34.8 degrees Celsius measured at nearby Charterhall and smashes the previous Scottish record high of 32.9 degrees Celsius recorded at Greycrook, near St Boswells, 19 years ago.
It could be a few days before it's confirmed though - the Met Office says all potential new records will undergo quality control checks.
Announcing the reading to staff shortly after 9am, gardener Simon McManus (pictured below) said: "It makes us feel very special that we could have the record here at Floors Castle - it's a big day for all of us.
"It just makes the garden that bit more special and I hope it brings more visitors in to the area."
Temperatures have dropped today after this week's extreme weather warning which saw thermometers top 40 degrees Celsius for the fist time south of the border - with 40.3C recorded at Coningsby, Lincolnshire.
A spokesperson for the Met Office said: "All potential new records will undergo quality control checks over the coming days.
"We also will be receiving data from our volunteer climate sites; all records are provisional at this stage and official records will be announced in due course."