Although this has been a thoroughly wet and miserable month so far here in Edinburgh, it had looked for a while as though we would finally get what would have been only our first completely dry day at both Edinburgh Gogarbank and the botanic gardens in Edinburgh since 2 August 2019 had that actually happened.
There has certainly been no shortage of sunshine today and today also ended on a sunny note. The result of this is that a total of 9.4 hours of sunshine was recorded for today in the end at Edinburgh Gogarbank. That makes today the sunniest day of this month so far, and the sunniest day since 25 July 2019.
However, there was a cloudier period during the latter part of this afternoon and with that, came some showers which means that a total of 3.6 mm of rain has now been recorded for today so far at Edinburgh Gogarbank as at 10pm tonight along with 4.0 mm at the botanic gardens in Edinburgh.
This means that our increasingly long wait for a completely dry day in this part of the world goes on and instead of that actually happening, today will now go down as yet another official rain day at both of those stations as a result, although the last couple of days believe it or not, have not actually been as wet as what it has been recently.
Today's maximum temperature at Edinburgh Gogarbank was 17.5°C and the temperature at 10pm tonight here in Edinburgh was just over 10°C.
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.