I don't particularly want to take Richard's line of writing off the whole of today just because this morning has been rather miserable, and I have a very good reason for that because one common theme which I have discovered over the course of this summer is that regardless of how dull and overcast any given day happens to be, the Sun has managed to find a find a way through in the end on almost every single occasion. This has resulted in the situation where there has been very few completely sunless days, and that has even carried on into this month as well, even though this month has been very poor in comparison to the other summer months with the resulting sunshine totals mostly still being abysmal due to the fact that the Sun would only actually come out fairly briefly.
However, there is always exceptions to every rule, and there is a reason why I have said "on almost every occasion" here rather than just "on every single occasion". If we go back to last Sunday and Monday for example, those were days which started off a wet and miserable note with the worst of the rain clearing away fairly quickly. On both those occasions though, a finger of light rain and drizzle continued to cling on like a limpet to this part of the world for most of the day even after the worst of the rain had cleared away. That prevented the Sun from being able to get through, and it is those days which have ended up being our completely sunless days.
As far as today is concerned, I am seeing a bit of a deja vu here here that is compared with those other sunless days because this is a day where the main area of rain cleared away. Yet just like last Sunday, there is still a finger of light rain and drizzle which is continuing to hang on here and make things rather miserable in this part of the world. Furthermore, this is also a day where there has been no recorded sunshine so far as I write.
When you add all of that together, it is easy to see that whilst I wouldn't be completely writing off the rest of today just yet, the omens are really not looking good at the moment, as far as the rest of today is concerned.
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.