So far this month, we still haven't seen as much a single flake of snow as has been the case throughout this winter.
In addition to that, a total of just 2 official air frosts have been recorded during this month at Edinburgh Gogarbank which is only 17.4% of the 1981-2010 January average for that particular station, despite the fact that we are almost half way through this month, and almost halfway through this winter.
That would normally be enough to moan about as it is, but I can a further statistic to that because today has ended up being our 7th completely sunless day of this month at Edinburgh Gogarbank and our 17th sunless day of this winter. This means that as far as this month is concerned, we have no sunshine at all during half of the total number of days which has passed so far.
In addition to that though, we have only had a total of 12.1 hours of sunshine during this entire month at Edinburgh Gogarbank and despite the fact that we are almost halfway through this month, that amounts to just over a quarter of the 1981-2010 January average for that particular station.
I know that days are now gradually getting longer but even when that is taken into consideration, this is still going to end up (just like last November) going down as a substantially duller than average month unless it gets a lot sunnier during the second half of this month.
I would say as well that given that this hasn't been a particularly wet month (although it has been wetter overall, than the same month during last year), that in addition to what I have mentioned above, has to be one of our most boring and uninteresting winters on record and in terms of us actually getting some winter weather, this has certainly been the worst ever winter which I can ever remember.
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.