Despite all of the northern blocking which is around, we still can't seem to be able to get a cold winter in this part of the world.
There has been a bit of snow and there has even been more snow already during this winter than what we saw during the whole of last winter. However, this isn't exactly difficult to achieve given that last winter was virtually completely snowless in this part of this world, and what snow we have had so far has still amount to far less than what we used to get by this same stage of this same month.
There has been two official air frosts during this month so far, which is on a par with what we got during this same month last year, but that is still well below what we should be getting at this stage of this month. We are already coming up towards the halfway stage of this month and yet, we have only had 16.3% of the 1981-2010 December average number of air frosts at Edinburgh Gogarbank during this month and I still haven't yet managed to wake up to a single bright, cold and frosty morning during this winter so far.
Whilst the CET has been running colder than average up until now, that hasn't been the case here. Unless it is colder than average at this time of the year, it can't really be seen as being much of a winter, just in the same way that a so-called summer can't be seen as much of a summer unless it is warmer than average. Yet, the average temperature anomaly at Edinburgh Gogarbank as at 9am this morning was +0.9°C, consisting of +1.3°C for the minimum temperatures and +0.4°C for the maximum temperatures, thus showing us just how much the temperatures just keep on refusing to drop at night in this part of the world.
This basically means that we just have the same old story here yet again which we now have every single winter. This makes that so boring and predictable that it actually makes Gavin P.'s winter updates leading up to all of this a complete waste of time because we already know in advance that it is going to be mild, regardless of what the various factors are like, which make up those updates.
In addition to that, it's also been very dull with 8 completely sunless days already at Edinburgh Gogarbank, with the last five days being completely sunless, and we have only had 16.7% of our 1981-2010 December average sunshine at Edinburgh Gogarbank despite being almost halfway through this month already.
Finally, it has also already been our wettest December since 2015 and we're not even halfway through the month just yet.
All in all, that doesn't exactly add up to a great start to this so-called "winter" up until now, which seems to just be turning increasingly into more of a non-event as time goes on just now.
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.