Well, would you believe it?
Today was the sunniest day of this winter so far because in the end, a total of 6.8 hours of sunshine was recorded for today at Edinburgh Gogarbank. This means that since there has now been more sunshine there than the 1981-2010 average, this month will now go down as a sunnier than average month overall at Edinburgh Gogarbank regardless of what happens during the last 3 days of this month.
However, it did become cloudier towards sunset and now, the temperatures are refusing to drop as a result of there being too much cloud around.
Meanwhile, the temperature at 8pm this evening was 2.3°C at Edinburgh Gogarbank, 1°C at Edinburgh Airport and 2.4°C at the botanic gardens in Edinburgh.
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.