The final month of the meteorological winter (which is also the shortest month of the year) has just started off on a very cold and frosty note here in Edinburgh. There was a little bit of a blip for a while earlier on as the presence of more in the way of cloud caused the temperature to go back up a bit. This has meant that the temperatures aren't all that much lower just now than what they were during the early part of yesterday evening.

However, the skies are now much clearer once again. That has caused the temperatures to resume their downward trend which means that there is still the possibility that the temperature at Edinburgh Airport in particular, could yet get all the way down to minus double digits or at least get very close to that.

Meanwhile, the temperature at midnight was -6.4°C at Edinburgh Gogarbank, -7°C at Edinburgh Airport and -4.3°C at the botanic gardens in Edinburgh.

Snow still falling. Everything covered including weather station. Will not know exact temperature until some has been lightly brushed.

Calm and dry with patchy thin cloud and frosty, still snowless here! -1c

Must be just above freezing with drip of water off thatch.

2cm or thereabouts of wet snow on ground. NE breeze F 2 to 3.

Max yesterday 0.9c

Overnight Min -1.2c

Last nights token dusting of snow already disappeared from most surfaces

Overcast

Cloudy, dry

Wind N slight breeze

Temp 0.2C

2c, sleety showers

NNEly light winds

994 rising

Cloudy 1.4C DP 1C.

I see BBC is in London disaster mode with 3cm of wet snow chaos.

The M4 did look like it might have been slightly slushy at 4am to be fair.

Nice to know then, that there was an official ice day here in Edinburgh after all during yesterday, albeit not at any of my three local stations on this end of the city.

As for right now, the Sun is shining here in Edinburgh once again after yet another very cold and frosty night.

Last night's overnight minimum temperature was -7.2°C at Edinburgh Gogarbank, -9°C at Edinburgh Airport and -6.2°C at the botanic gardens in Edinburgh. This makes last night, the coldest night of the winter so far at all three of my local stations.

Meanwhile, the temperature at 8am this morning was -6.6°C at Edinburgh Gogarbank, -7°C at Edinburgh Airport and -5.7°C at the botanic gardens in Edinburgh.

-12.1c Overnight low

-4.3c 24 hr. high

998 Mb. steady

Calm, and snowing

Level snow depth: 5 cm

Cloudy and damp. Sugar icing cover on prone areas over night. Anything that falls now is likely to be wet rather than white which should make it easier for it to turn up and deliver.

+1.9C DP +1C

Light rain

 A very light dusting of fresh snow overnight.

Dry, cloudy now.

Temp 1.8C

Pressure 992mb

Cold, wet, raining here , horrible! I see there are a few cms on the higher ground in the SW and other favoured areas which is nice. The much berated Met office got it about right I would say.

Dull and damp with light rain (10.6 mm so far today). 4.3 c but at least winds are dead calm at the moment and I can see a tinge of brightness over the Channel.

Unbroken overcast, calm, sometimes drizzle sometimes light snow.

1.9*C (DP 1.1*C) after a minimum of 0.3*C at 11.45pm.

94%RH; 983.6mb rising.

The temperature has risen slowly since last night, and the 1-2cm of lying snow is turning wet and slushy. Yuk.  In the middle of this week I was tempted to post in the Short Term Snow Prospects thread that I was expecting a slushfest, and it looks as though my expectation was accurate.  And if it doesn't freeze tonight, it looks as though it will on Saturday night, so that will be tricky.

Better go and clear the slush off the car before it freezes.

John, i think being to the south of high ground surpresses my maximum temperatures on frosty days. For instance, its 11am and the sun hasn't risen above Blackford Hill yet!