Once again, normal service has been resumed here in Edinburgh as the east coast haar has closed right in, and is quite dense here at the moment. This has resulted in the skies over Edinburgh returning to their more familiar colour of grey with nothing in the way of sunshine having been recorded for today so far as at 8am this morning.
I was surprised to see a bright and sunny morning yesterday which I wasn't expecting to see, and that ended up being our hottest day of the year so far, and the second sunniest day of the year so far. However, it is clearly asking too much in this part of the world for us to get two or more bright and sunny mornings in a row these days, and that has been shown this morning yet again.
This of course, already means that we won't be seeing the second sunniest day of the year today, and today is unlikely to be the hottest day of the year either.
Last night's overnight minimum temperature was 11.8ºC at Swanston, 12.0ºC at Edinburgh Gogarbank, 11ºC at Edinburgh Airport and 12.3ºC at the botanic gardens in Edinburgh.
Meanwhile, the temperature at 8am this morning was 12.8ºC at Swanston (so it looks as though this easterly muck has penetrated quite far inland this time), 13.2ºC at Edinburgh Gogarbank, 12ºC at Edinburgh Airport and 12.4ºC 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.