We've had a reasonable amount of sunshine during today which is enough to make today, our second sunniest day of this month so far. That in turn brings the total for this month at Edinburgh Gogarbank to just over 50 hours of sunshine.
The problem with that though, is that we have now reached the halfway point of August and yet, the total for this month so far which I've just quoted is only just over a third of the 1981-2010 average.
Furthermore, today's total was still less than 10 hours and so, the fact that this was still enough to make today the second sunniest day of the month so far shows just how poor a month this has been in terms of the number of hours of sunshine.
Of course, there has been many recent months which have been dull up until this point but where, a number of sunny days afterwards have been enough to completely turn that around and make it a sunnier than average month.
However, the immediate outlook is still very poor with a lot of cloudy weather ahead, and the fact that it is now getting darker at nights makes that even less likely this time anyway, due to the resulting reduction in the amount of available sunshine over time.
It is therefore at times like this, when I can really end up hating the fact that we are now coming towards the end of what has been a classic example of a front-loaded summer.
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.