This afternoon has got better as it has gone on. The clouds have melted away and it is now just about completely sunny as I write.
However, a total of just 2.7 hours of sunshine has been recorded for today so far at Edinburgh Gogarbank as at 5pm this afternoon and we need to be doing a lot better than that if we going to get away with a sunnier than average month this time.
However, it has warmed up a bit once again with that sunshine and the temperature at 5pm this afternoon was 19.7°C at Edinburgh Gogarbank, 20°C at Edinburgh Airport and 19.7°C at the botanic gardens in Edinburgh.
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.