Today is a very important day from a Scottish perspective as the night which follows on from that, will be Burns Night when I will be celebrating with my usual haggis, turnip and neaps.

Anyway, normal service for this winter so far has now been resumed to a certain extent as it is rather damp and overcast with the temperatures refusing to drop as a result of there being too much cloud around.

In the end though, a total of 0.4 mm of rain fell during yesterday at the botanic gardens in Edinburgh, but with nothing at all in the way of rainfall being recorded for yesterday at Edinburgh Gogarbank.

Meanwhile, the temperature at midnight was 2.9°C at Edinburgh Gogarbank, 3°C at Edinburgh Airport and 3.0°C at the botanic gardens in Edinburgh.

Calm and cloudy. 4.3c

Max yesterday 3.9c

Overnight Min -0.4c

Mild with drizzle
9.1c

At 8am Linton on ooze was 6c colder than here. Temps there are now rising rapidly . 3c at 8.07am and 7c by 8.30am

0.6c Overnight low

1004 Mb. steady

Wind light SW

1.9 mm rainfall

Raining

Wind NW breeze

Temp 5.3C

Overcast, dull & damp 6.5c Light air SW RH 95% pressure 1015mb rising slowly

Overcast, damp and breezy after 3.5mm overnight rainfall.

Temp 9.9C

Overnight low -0.1C

Pressure 1012mb

Scattered Cloud. Sun shines. 

11.8c.  Humidity 91% Rh.

1015 hPa. Westerly breeze 8 mph.   

Overcast; calm; drizzle earlier giving 0.8mm, now stopped.

3.9*C after a minimum of -0.1*C at 2.30am.

97%RH; 1011.4mb steady.

The mild air hasn't reached here yet, so it's cold, dank, and gloomy.  Thank goodness for the bright glow of a halogen heater, and for a lightbox.

Cloudy.

9.3c

1013.8mb rising

1.0mm

Cloudy and damp 9C.

Today has brought a return to the same old borefest which we have had to endure throughout this so-called "winter" as our snow-free hell goes on.

In addition to that, today has also been a lot milder than of late after the temperatures shot up during the early hours of the morning. That brought back into that ultimate nightmare scenario for this time the year, of double figures temperatures and to make matters even worse, the temperature is now refusing to drop as a result of there being too much cloud and far too much wind around.

In the end, a total of just 36 minutes of sunshine was recorded for today at Edinburgh Gogarbank and so, a total of at least 2.7 hours of sunshine is still needed during the last 6 days of this month in order for this month to then go down as being sunnier than average overall.

At the moment, it is very windy with the wind at Edinburgh Gogarbank gusting up to 34.2mph from the WSW as at 8pm this evening.

Last night's overnight minimum temperature was 1.7° at Edinburgh Gogarbank, 1°C at Edinburgh Airport and 1.2°C at the botanic gardens in Edinburgh.

Today's maximum temperature so far is 10.6° at Edinburgh Gogarbank, 10°C at Edinburgh Airport and 10.4°C at the botanic gardens in Edinburgh.

Meanwhile, the temperature at 8pm this evening was 9.9° at Edinburgh Gogarbank, 10°C at Edinburgh Airport and 10.2°C at the botanic gardens in Edinburgh.