Cloudy, windy, 7.6C. Totally dire and pointless opening a new thread every day in this sterile climate where nothing ever changes. Best just re-use the same one over and over as saves having to type the same rot every day
I can fully see where you're coming from here.
However, it can't be forgotten that one main reason why I like to keep these threads going is in honour of the late Dougie who was (as far as I know) the original main architect of these threrads. This means that if I didn't start these threads every day myself, I am in no doubt that someone else on this forum would probably end up doing so, albeit at a much later time during every morning. The reason why I start these threads every day at around midnight is to make sure that they are already in place as soon as possible at the start of every day.
We could go down the route of a single thread for that as we do with the likes of the MO thread but if we did so, there would still need to be a limit to how long each of these threads became before starting a new one. There is a valid reason why Brian always limits each MO and media thread to no more than about 50 or so pages, and those same reasons would then come into play here if we just had a single thread for that. In addition to that, you would need to be absolutely clear in every single post, about which day you were referring to when you were reporting the conditions for that day, whereas having daily threads avoids that scenario altogether.
In any case, I'm not convinced that the late Dougie would want it to be any other way which means that the TWO forum probably wouldn't be the same without its daily CC threads, although I'm pretty sure that the weather was probably a lot more interesting when Dougie was around, than this complete borefest which we are having to endure just now so just like you, I am also getting a bit fed up with reporting the same stuff over and over again.
Today has been the perfect example of why this is the case because although there has been the odd bit of sunshine at times, there also continues to be a lot of cloud which in the end for the second day running, has led to nothing in the way of sunshine being recorded for today at Edinburgh Gogarbank. Having said that, I know that today will be a day which won't go down as a completely sunless day at the botanic gardens in Edinburgh since that was where I actually was this afternoon when we had those periods of sunshine. For Edinburgh Gogarbank though, this now makes today the 6th completely sunless day of this month, the 6th sunless day of this year and the 18th sunless day of this winter.
There has also been some light drizzle at times, but this has been barely enough to even wet the ground so once again, there has been no actual recorded rainfall from that at either Edinburgh Gogarbank or the botanic gardens in Edinburgh.
In addition to that, the temperatures are still going up as I write, so the temperature at 4pm this afternoon was 9.9°C at Edinburgh Gogarbank, 10°C at Edinburgh Airport (where that nightmare winter scenario of double figures temperatures has returned yet again) and 9.7°C at the botanic gardens in Edinburgh.
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12 January 2019 17:06:55
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Reason: typos
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.