There's still a lot of cloud around and a total of just 53 minutes of sunshine has been recorded for today so far at Edinburgh Gogarbank.

Just to show what this month has been like up until now though, that is also the total for this entire month so far.

That doesn't amount to a lot but at this stage, anything at all is far better than nothing, especially as we still have Storm Olivia to come during tomorrow which will then be closely followed by Storm Kathleen over the weekend.

As at 3:20pm BST (15:20 UTC) this afternoon, the temperature was still only around 7°C here in Edinburgh so it's still not getting any warmer here despite those sunny intervals.🤢

6 C, 7 C, 6 C and 7 C so quite cold. Snow expected tonight in Perthshire and torrential rain across The Central Belt in the morning (yellow warnings out for both events). It's going to be a horrible journey back to Edinburgh in the morning!

Then temperatures reach double figures at last on Saturday 😁

Where I am in NW Edinburgh, it's just heavy rain which has given us another 17.8 mm of rain at Edinburgh Gogarbank just since midnight and it's still raining as I write although that appears to be gradually easing off now.

It's quite a chilly morning though and at Edinburgh Gogarbank, the temperature dropped to just 1.6°C. This suggests that there could be some snow on high ground with possibly even a bit of sleet or wet snow in those higher parts of the south of Edinburgh (maybe Noodle Doodle might update us on that in your absence).

Without actually being able to see the Pentland Hills, I know that there appears to be a decent covering there because when I looked at this webcam  which you often like to link to in these situations (I can easily get to that from the link on Swanston weather station's website), everything looked very decidedly white.

Meanwhile, the temperature here in Edinburgh was around 4°C as at 7:30am BST (06:00 UTC) this morning.

It's 11c now but we were just under a chain of torrential showers gave over 4mm in an hour.

Don't know if anyone can see this? Dunkeld at 10am today

Let's hope we reach double figures outside tomorrow for the first time for 6 days 🥶

So far to date, Edinburgh Gogarbank has still to see a temperature of 15°C or above during this month and yet, that is being forecast to happen tomorrow.

It's still only around 6°C here in Edinburgh as at 7pm BST (18:00 UTC) but the good news is that it's now finally stopped raining at long, long, last after what has been yet another completely write-off of a day here for the second day in succession.

If that happens, that will also push up today's official maximum temperature for here by quite a lot as the official observation day which carries today's date doesn't officially end until 10am BST (09:00 UTC) tomorrow morning. That in turn will make today not look anything like so cold after all here if that happens.

We are also in double figures now for the first time this month at 11.5 C we have a very light Easterly drift, no sign of the gales yet

There's still a lot of cloud around but that cloud is a bit more broken and this morning's weather appears to be as good as it ever gets now.

Although we are under an official Met Office yellow warning for wind, there's absolutely no sign of any windy conditions here at the moment and it's also a lot warmer than of late (today is forecast to be our warmest day of the day so far if that is correct).

As at 7:30am BST (06:30 UTC) this morning, the temperature was around 12°C here in Edinburgh which is a lot more like it!!

I think that you're probably referring to the total for the entire 24 hour period from 09:00 UTC yesterday morning rather than just the overnight period unless you've somehow had a lot more rain during the night in the south of Edinburgh than there was at Edinburgh Gogarbank.

The reason why I say that is because the 24 hour total at Edinburgh Gogarbank up to 06:00 UTC has been officially confirmed by the raw SYNOP data as 15.8mm which closely matches the figure which you have given whereas a total of just 2.4 mm was recorded there during the night.