It's a special day for me as we have just entered the day of my birthday (I won't give my age away, except to say that I can always refer to myself as being 21 again).

On a more serious note though, there's nothing particularly special about the weather just now.

The much talked about cold front brought a little bit of rain but as usual, this was barely enough to wet the ground. This did result in 0.2 mm of rain being recorded at Edinburgh Gogarbank which is the first recorded rainfall there since 13th October 2018. However, I'm pretty sure that it takes more than that on any given day to end an absolute drought so if that is the case, then this is not enough to avert the possible onset of an official absolute drought at that station on Sunday. Furthermore, there was no measurable rainfall from that which was recorded at the botanic gardens in Edinburgh.

Now that this cold front has moved through though, the temperatures have dropped a bit, so the temperature at midnight was 8.3°C at Edinburgh Gogarbank, 8°C at Edinburgh Airport and 8.8°C at the botanic gardens in Edinburgh which for all three of my local stations, already makes tonight our coolest night for quite a while.

Calm, light rain just started. 10.2c

Dry with a slight breeze. Cloud breaking from the NW.The cold front appears to have gone through and gave some rain earlier in the night.
On a min of 7.5C and falling slowly after the passage of the front.

Max yesterday 14.2c

Overnight Min 8.5c (7.00am)

Wind N fresh breeze

Temp 4.4C

Having said that though, it is a lot colder than of late this morning so the temperature at 8am this morning was 5.2°C at Edinburgh Gogarbank, 4°C at Edinburgh Airport and 5.5°C at the botanic gardens in Edinburgh.

Bright intervals and showers. 2.9mm rain so far today.

Temp 6.7C

Pressure 1011mb 

Overcast featureless cloud, SW breeze, light shower just came through, but not enough to register.

9.6*C after an overnight minimum of 8.1*C at midnight

84%RH, 1013mb

Lovely Autumn day here

8.1c, clear, cool, light wind

I suspect this is the first report of sleet/snow of the season on here.

Heavy rain/hail showers here recently but with a temp of 5-6C hardly likely be be even sleet. Currently 6.0C and broken cloud, the shower bands seem to be drifiting off to the SW.

The fragmenting cold front has arrived in the last 30 minutes with drizzly light rain that has produced 0.2mm thus far.

The temperature peaked at 11.1c an hour ago but is now dropping away as the colder airmass digs in.

10.4c with a RH of 90%.

Feeling COLD!!!

6.6 degrees at home.

It took a bit longer than normal for the overnight minimum temperature from last night to be reached, but that has eventually ended up as 5.2°C at Edinburgh Gogarbank, 4°C at Edinburgh Airport and 5.5°C at the botanic gardens in Edinburgh.

Meanwhile, the temperature at 12 noon was a rather chilly 7.7°C at Edinburgh Gogarbank, 8°C at Edinburgh Airport and 8.5°C at the botanic gardens in Edinburgh.

After a very showery morning, cloud now breaking up as the main area of showers moves further south. Just 7 C @ 89% RH, winds have dropped to a very light NW'ly and pressure has fallen to 1011mb. 5mm from the showers today.  

Had a shower earlier. Broken cloud now , some on the dark side. Breezy. 

8.0c. Humidity 65% rh.

1013 hPa.  NW Breeze 14 mph. 

Brightened right up with sunshine, quite uplifting after that dull and damp morning (0.2 mm of drizzle).

Temperatures crept down to 9.6 c by mid-day but has picked up slightly to 12.4 c currently but the 66% h & brisk NW wind are taking the edge off it anyway.

Meanwhile, the temperature at 4pm this afternoon was 8.1°C at Edinburgh Gogarbank, 8°C at Edinburgh Airport and 9.0°C at the botanic gardens in Edinburgh.

Revolting day. Nasty cold wind, frequent showers and very little sun in between. Max 6.7C but the min of 3.4C was exactly the same as on the warmest day of the month last Saturday 

5.6mm of rain. What you used to get from a northerly really but as soon as it gets cold enough for snow you can bet the northerlies will go back to being the dross of recent winters i.e. sun nearly all day with only a few passing showers 

Quite showery the past hour and it's only about 4C so a few sloppy flakes in it.

7.2c after a max of 12.1 around 2pm.  Beautiful "Arctic" sunset and clearing skies.  I may get my first frost of the season  tonight!

Today's maximum temperature was 8.7°C at Edinburgh Gogarbank, 9°C at Edinburgh Airport and 9.1°C at the botanic gardens in Edinburgh. This makes today, the coldest day of the autumn so far at all three of my local stations and if my memory serves me right, I think that this is also the first time since away back in April, that the temperature at any of my three local stations has failed to reach double figures.

The temperatures are also dropping away nicely under clear skies and what is even more interesting, is the dew points have also dropped to below freezing for the first time during this current autumn/winter season. In this instance, that just shows how dry the air is just now, but this is also one of the things which can determine whether it is cold enough to snow or not once we get to the actual winter, so I'm hoping that we will be able to see plenty more of that then.

With that in mind, the temperature at 8pm this evening was already down to 5.3°C at Edinburgh Gogarbank, 5°C at Edinburgh Airport and 5.7°C at the botanic gardens in Edinburgh.