Good point. If this same pattern occured last Jan or Feb, we'd be seeing something akin to the winter of 62-63.
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This of course, is yet another example of the weather gods delivering the exact opposite of what we would normally be looking for at any given time of the year.
I have seen so many recent winters ruined by "if only it were summer" synoptics at that particular time of the year with very mild air coming up from the Canaries or the Azores at the very time when we normally be looking for cold winds from the north or east to deliver some snow.
Of course, it's still very early in this summer and therefore, it is far too early to be writing this summer off altogether. What we do know though is that this is the time of year when we would normally be looking for those hot southerlies to deliver plenty of warm sunshine to these shores.
Instead of that though, this summer is currently be ruined by "if only it were winter" synoptics with cool winds from the east or NE which keep on feeding in lots of easterly muck from off the North Sea.
You really couldn't make that up if you tried to!!😡
As a result, the Sun did come out here in Edinburgh for a while during this afternoon but unlike on other recent days, that cloud never completely cleared away at any point in time and it has now thickened up a bit once again to make it largely overcast with no more than just a few hints of brightness.
As that has been happening, temperatures have also been refusing to rise and have ended up being no higher than around 15°C here in Edinburgh.😡
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05 June 2023 17:14:49
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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.