As close to a frost as you can get, a min of 0.0c about 5 mins ago.

I used to live in Epsom and get very often low temps due to being hollow area more so at Redhill so often reach -10 often most annually winter seasons.  Here no I am on top of the hill but down the road likely lower than mine this morning.

When I used to travel to work in London from Redhill in the days when the data from the Redhill weather station was regularly mentioned on the TV forecasts, my colleagues were often amused that apparently I lived in the coldest place in the country. It could easily be 7 or 8 degrees cooler than in central London

Now I live close to the aerodrome I certainly notice how much colder it can be here than when we were 60 metres or so higher on the greensand ridge to the north

Still frosty on the shaded rooves here at 10 a.m.

I even managed to see the aurora borealis from my east facing bedroom window at around midnight just as I was going to bed, and it looked really spectacular, especially as I also had a good view of Jupiter at the same time with Mars also visible as it rose in the NE.

All of that came after a total of 7.8 hours of sunshine was recorded during the day at Edinburgh Gogarbank but despite those clear skies and a cold start to the night, the temperatures then refused to drop any further as the wind then picked up.

As a result, our wait for our first official air frost of the season goes on and not only did we not even get a ground frost, but we didn't even get close to that here.

We were supposed to get showers today though but as yet, these are nowhere to be seen and apart from some high cloud, it's ended up being fairly bright and sunny once again, and probably sunnier than what it was forecast to be.

According to weatherobs.com, the temperature everywhere else in the vicinity is still well down in single figures but here in Edinburgh, the temperature is already at around 10°C, probably as a result of some form of urban island effect even though Edinburgh is only a very small city in terms of its area and official population.

As a result, our wait for our first single figures maximum of the season looks likely to go on even though our temperature hasn't actually quite reached double figures just yet.

Today got off to a fairly bright start but there was then a period of heavy rain which gave way to showers for a while although all of that has now cleared away.

Currently around 7°C here in Edinburgh.