Today was forecast to be the cloudiest day which we are likely to see for a while, and that was how the day started off. No matter what the actual synoptics or forecasts throw at us these days though, the Sun always manages to find a way through. That has happened yet again today with the cloud breaking up as the morning has gone on. This has allowed more in the way of sunshine to come through once again with a total of 36 minutes of sunshine being recorded for today so far at Edinburgh Gogarbank as at 12 noon.
This shows once again that we just don't get completely sunless days here any more. If we were ever going to get a completely sunless day, today was surely always going to be the most likely day for that according to the forecasts. Now, I am really struggling to see where elusive first completely sunless day of this month is actually going to come from if that is going to happen at all.
We may well only be just over half way through this month, but it already becoming increasingly clear now that we are unlikely to see any completely sunless days during this month as a result which is remarkable when you consider the time of year which we are currently in, and the fact that there has only been one other month during this year so far which hasn't had any completely sunless days at Edinburgh Gogarbank (that month was July and even more remarkably, there hasn't actually been a single month during this year so far which hasn't had a single completely sunless day at the botanic gardens in Edinburgh).
In addition to that, I was just getting ready to report that today wasn't as mild as of late when the temperature then shot up by quite a bit during the last hour and now as a result of that, the temperature at 12 noon was back up to around 15°C and looking every single bit as ridiculously warm for this time of year as what yesterday was.
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.