Gloriously sunny yet again with gin clear blue sky. 13 C with little wind so lunch in the garden again.
So far a very dry (3.6mm), very sunny (122hrs 87%) but cold April here (4.5 C -3.3 C) 10 air frosts and 4 days snow falling. An interesting month again ☀️😎
Clearly, your definition of what is "interesting" weather, is completely different from mines.
Having constant sunshine and persistent dry weather such as what we have just now is great for our mood, and great for being able to get out and about and I generally try to make the most of it when I can. The issue which I have with that though is that when it is like that all of the time with no other type of weather actually happening, it just all gets very boring and repetitive because of the fact that nothing ever changes from one day or the next.
This means that there is never any great hurry to make the most of this good weather because we already know that it is still going to be around whenever we choose to do so, and regardless of when we choose to do so. That is not how it used to be though. This used to be a month which would be known for its April showers due to the heat of the Sun causing greater convection currents that result in showers forming further inland in area which would have been bone dry under that same air mass during the winter.
However, that is no longer the case and as far as this month is concerned, the only April showers which we have seen has been the odd very light snow shower which has never actually came to anything. Furthermore, all of us were probably taught at school that our weather was changeable which means that if we had a spell of weather such as we have just now, we would always have to make sure that we made the most of it as the next deterioration in our weather would never be far away.
However, that is clearly not the case any more. Furthermore, the only thing which has been interesting about the temperatures comes from the fact that the nights have been so cold lately (something which I would much rather be seeing during the winter, than right now at a time when I would much rather be getting on with spring). When we have got some really sunny weather like this in the past, this would then be when we would start to see our first temperatures of 20°C for above for the current spring/summer season in this part of the world as a result and yet, we haven't even come close to that any time during this month.
Yes, it is dry and very sunny (11.2 hours of sunshine for today at Edinburgh Gogarbank as at 7pm this evening) but with today's maximum temperature reaching just 13.8°C, it's not exactly been all that spectacularly warm for this time of the year despite all of that sunshine. Personally, I can't wait to start seeing some rain once again because it is only when the weather becomes more changeable, that it then becomes more "interesting" in my books and our gardens could really be doing with some rain now.
For the record, the temperature here in Edinburgh was around 12°C as at 7pm this evening.
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15 April 2021 18:35:33
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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.