No exciting weather here, I'm afraid (there never is, anyway).
This afternoon has just been one very boring and tedious dull and overcast grey nothingness with yet more constant grey skies. Towards the end of the day, we did start to see the odd small gap appearing in that cloud but in the end, nothing in the way of sunshine was recorded for today at Edinburgh Gogarbank.
That makes today, only the first completely sunless day of this month and the third sunless day of this autumn. Indeed, today was the first sunless day to be recorded at Edinburgh Gogarbank since 13 October 2018 and so brings to an end, a run of 36 days in a row where at least some sunshine had been recorded. That was always going to come to an end at some point in time, especially at this time of year when the days are very short and so, it wouldn't surprise me if that run which has just ended is close to being an all time record for here at this time of the year.
Since that was such an exceptional run, I'm not too bothered about today, especially since it is still looking as though this month should still end up being sunnier than average overall anyway. Having said that though, there is the chance that getting that required number of hours of sunshine in order for this month to end up being sunnier than average could end up being a lot harder than anticipated if today is the start of a much duller spell of weather but for now, I still think that we have enough hours of sunshine in the bag during this month so far for us to get there in the end.
For me, this is therefore, the equivalent of seeing a football team going on a long unbeaten run and then getting a standing ovation from their fans for those efforts at the end of a later match where that team are eventually beaten, thus ending that long unbeaten run.
Not enough available data has come through for me to be able to give a more detailed temperature report, but today's maximum temperature was around 8°C which the temperature at 4pm this afternoon not much lower than that.
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.