After a rather wet and miserable morning and a rather wet and miserable start to what is expected to be a very unsettled weekend, I can now say that our long awaited cold front has now finally moved through.
This morning has brought very little in the way of sunshine and so a total of just 12 minutes of sunshine has been recorded for today so far as at 12 noon at Edinburgh Gogarbank.
However, the rainfall totals from this morning's really big downpour are once again, not as high as I would have expected to see from such a massive downpour, although this has brought today's rainfall totals so far to 10.4 mm at Edinburgh Gogarbank and 6.8 mm at the botanic gardens in Edinburgh as at 12 noon. As I write though, it is raining yet again here in Edinburgh and so, those totals for today are unlikely to be the final totals for today in the end.
At around the time of that massive downpour though, the temperature dropped by a few degrees from of a maximum of 20.0ºC at Edinburgh and 20ºC at Edinburgh Airport at 10am this morning, and 20.5ºC at the botanic gardens in Edinburgh at 11am this morning.
As a result of that, the air now has a much fresher feel than what it did beforehand which means that I should now finally be able to get a decent night's sleep without feeling too hot.
Meanwhile, the temperature at 12 noon was now a much cooler 17.8ºC at Edinburgh Gogarbank, 18ºC at Edinburgh Airport and 17.5ºC at the botanic gardens in Edinburgh with the temperatures, now refusing to rise any further.
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.