Despite the fact that we are now into the darkest period of the year with only about six weeks to go until the winter solstice, it remains the case that we still cannot get a completely sunless day at Edinburgh Gogarbank. This has been been shown by the fact that there has been just two sunless days during this autumn so far with each of these occurring during September and October. This means that there hasn't been any completely sunless days during this month so far and even this morning, the Sun has rather defiantly, continued to shine at times.
Having said that though, there is also a lot of cloud around. We had a red sky just before sunrise which means that if you believe in the folklore which goes with that, this does not bode well for the rest of today if that ends up being true on this occasion. The rest of the day will therefore need a close eye kept on it but for now, all we have is the same old borefest as before with very little actually happening.
Lack of available data continues to be a problem. This has been ongoing for quite a while now, and I would really like to see that being sorted out once and for all since this is preventing me from being able to present the data for this area on these threads in the way that I would like to (i.e. with the usual readings for each of my three local stations).
All I can therefore say is that last night's overnight minimum temperature was around 9°C and that the temperature at 8am this morning was around 10°C.
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.