rain and not the freezing variety.  Disappointing but unsurprising.

sleety rain now.

Now, that is all in the process of clearing away to the north, but not before this has all resulted in a total of 3.2 mm of rain being recorded for today so far at Edinburgh Gogarbank as at 8pm this evening, along with 1.8 mm at the botanic gardens in Edinburgh. This means that today will now go down as an official rain day at both of those stations.

However, the dew points have now risen above freezing, and the temperatures have generally been refusing to drop as a result of there being too much cloud and far too much wind (the wind at 8pm this evening was still gusting up to 35.4mph from the east at Edinburgh Gogarbank).

Meanwhile, the temperature at 8pm this evening was 1.9°C at Edinburgh Gogarbank, 2°C at Edinburgh Airport and 1.7°C at the botanic gardens in Edinburgh.

Temperature risen to 0.2c now.
Cloudy and misty with ice covered surfaces and trees.

The trees are makeing some strange noises as the wind shears the ice

Always a positive!  Not so windy here now and temp. has shot up to 6 C @ 95% RH, pressure down to 994 mb. Going to let the wood burner die down as it's feeling too warm in the living rm now, lol!!  

It appears to be all over as far anything wintry is concerned IMBY, but it looks as though Storm Deirdre itself still has another punch to pack yet. Although the main area of rain has moved away to the north, I have noticed by switching on various options in the TWO rain radar map, that the actual centre of Storm Deirdre appears to be passing just to the south of here across the Scottish Borders.

Since that actual centre of low pressure has just missed us though, it remains very windy here. In addition to that, the rain radar maps show that more precipitation is heading in this direction from the west thanks to the wrap-around occlusion which makes up part of this system. The bad news though is that when I then looked at that on my snow radar map, I discovered that what was now heading in this direction is just more rain.

That pretty much describes the day here, except it wa ps around 1-2c during daylight hours with drizzle giving way to steady rain in mid-afternoon.  I never expected more than a few flakes before the rain arrived but didn't even get that: the first band fizzled out to the west and that was the chance gone.

7.7c now with the wind in the SW.

18.4 mm of rain fell today.