Not long after my last post on this thread, the Sun came out in Hawick with the clouds beginning to break up. There was a light spot of rain in the air when I left Hawick to return to Edinburgh, but the trip back up here to Edinburgh where I am now was greeted with blue skies and plenty of sunshine. In the end, this resulted in 3.1 hours of sunshine being recorded for today at Edinburgh Gogarbank.
The only thing which I will add to that is that I came through the Borders Hills on the way home, and it was sad to see these hills looking so green at this time of year with not even a single bit of snow to be seen on them, which is in complete contrast to this time last year when there was plenty of snow and ice around even here in Edinburgh to greet my return home (that just shows how much of a complete non-event this so-called "winter" has been so far, compared to last winter).
However, I am back in my usual place here in Edinburgh once again and am now looking forward to returning to my usual frequency of posting on this forum from now on as a result.
Today's maximum temperature was 10.1°C at Edinburgh Gogarbank, 10°C at Edinburgh Airport and 10.4°C at the botanic gardens in Edinburgh.
I didn't wake up to a frost on any occasion when I was in the Scottish Borders, but I do know that there was one frosty morning here in Edinburgh during that time on Christmas Eve. Indeed, the temperatures are dropping away under clear skies now that the Sun has gone down. Now that I am back home though, I can probably be well assured that there will no frost here tonight, this time which is just typical of my luck.
Meanwhile, the temperature at 4pm this afternoon was 7.2°C at Edinburgh Gogarbank, 6°C at Edinburgh Airport and 7.5°C at the botanic gardens in Edinburgh.
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28 December 2018 16:42:37
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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.