I can remember there being a crack of thunder here back in February though, so we actually had more thunderstorms during that winter than what we had last summer. I can see what you mean about that though in terms of it being much warmer down there.

As at 9am BST (08:00 UTC), the temperature here in Edinburgh was around 7°C with virtually no diurnal temperature range whatsoever.🤢😡

As at 3pm BST (14:00 UTC) this afternoon, the temperature here in Edinburgh was around 8°C.

9.7c

1003.1mb falling

8.4mm

This morning's new rain band seems to be slowing down over the Central Belt. Fingers crossed we stay just to the north. Cold and cloudy would be ok

As I write, we are now into the third day of this month but our increasingly long wait for our first recorded sunshine of this month at Edinburgh Gogarbank goes on.🤢

As at 8:20am BST (07:20 UTC) this morning, the temperature here in Edinburgh was around 7°C.

According to the latest radar map, there is some rain and drizzle covering a large part of eastern Scotland to the north of that rain band with even parts of NW Scotland getting some light showers.

There is a dry area over central and western Scotland but you will be really lucky if it somehow manages to stay completely dry where you are (although I hope it does of course).

Meanwhile, the temperature at 12 noon BST (11:00 UTC) remains stuck at around 7°C here in Edinburgh.

Since 10am BST (09:00 UTC), there has been more than 14 mm of rain at Edinburgh Gogarbank and so today's final total is clearly going to end up being a lot higher than that.

In addition to that, today hasn't even been the least bit warm either with the temperatures rising no higher than around 7°C during the day.

As at 6:10pm BST (17:10 UTC) this evening, the temperature here in Edinburgh was around 6°C.

I can see that you didn't manage to avoid the rain in Dunkeld as you were hoping to.

I also know that you've experienced some very wet conditions before in the Lake District but what we have experienced today here in Edinburgh has been every bit like that.

As at 11pm BST (22:00 UTC) tonight, a total of 22.8 mm of rain had been recorded at Edinburgh Gogarbank just since 10am BST (09:00 UTC) this morning.

That makes today our wettest day of this year so far and even as I write, it's still raining here although the rain is now gradually easing off now and very slowly clearing away.

Meanwhile, the temperature at 11pm BST (22:00 UTC) tonight was around 5°C here in Edinburgh.

EDIT - an hour later, the shower referred to by NMA below has turned up here

As at 7:10am BST (06:10 UTC), the temperature here in Edinburgh was around 4°C.

EDIT

Finally at long last, we've actually just had our first glimpse of the Sun for this entire month, but it's taken until the fourth day of this month for that to actually happen. That elusive first recorded sunshine of this month might not be that far away now though.

Snow will fall more widely tonight down to 100m!

I've yet to be able to dry laundry outside this year. The radar shows the next instalment of rain approaching from the SW approaches.