Well there is wind & rain piling into the west of Scotland, in fact it's not really all that far from Edinburgh so you can hardly be surprised that it's clouded over and the wind has picked up. I think to sday that you have been 'robbed' of a frost is a bit strong :)
Currently 3.8C here and cloudy after a low of 0.6C, the lowest of the season so far. I did think I'd get some sun this morning though before the cloud spilled in from the west.
Originally Posted by: Col
There are a few points which I would like to make on that.
First of all, the fact that wind and rain is piling into the west of Scotland doesn't necessarily mean that it will actually reach us here in the east of Scotland where we really could do with getting that rain just now. Furthermore, there is also a difference between there being rain not all that far away from here, and there actually being some rain here because the fact that there is rain nearby still doesn't necessarily mean that we will actually get it here.
From what I am reading, I seems to me that you haven't been properly studying the latest forecasts which did say that whilst the west of Scotland is in for quite a lot of rain over the next few days with some very high totals coming from that, very little of that was actually ever expected to reach the east of Scotland, and it looks as though this is what is actually happening yet again.
We have had a cloudy and windy morning with nothing in the way of sunshine having been recorded for today so far at Edinburgh Gogarbank as at 12 noon. However, the Sun always manages to find a way through here in the end, and the Sun was even shining here just before I started to write this post. Because of that, I don't think that today will be a completely sunless day at Edinburgh Gogarbank in the end.
There was a little bit of rain during this morning but as is usually always the case these days, this was barely enough to even wet the ground and so, there is still nothing in the way of rainfall which has been recorded for today so far at either Edinburgh Gogarbank or the botanic gardens in Edinburgh as at 12 noon. So basically, we have yet another day which is dominated by yet more grey almost constant grey skies and virtually nothing in the way of rain, and this means that we still have the same old borefest as before with nothing much really happening here.
That is what annoyed me about the fact that we were robbed by a frost by it clouding over during the night, becuase this is happening as a result of a rather lame and pathetic effort to bring in some so-called "unsettled" weather from the west and so, I quite frankly couldn't care less about whether or not you thought that saying that we were robbed of a frost was too strong.
Anyway, the temperature at 12 noon was 10.0°C at Edinburgh Gogarbank, 10°C at Edinburgh Airport and 10.4°C at the botanic gardens in Edinburgh.
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07 October 2018 11:47:45
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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.