Rather frustratingly, the temperatures here are refusing to drop yet again despite the fact that the sky appears to be fairly clear. In fact, we were very close at 8pm yesterday evening (which was about 4 hours ago) to getting an official air frost at Edinburgh Airport before the temperature at that station, then jumped back up, but I can only assume that this is probably due to there being a bit too much of a breeze.

What has happened though, is that I can now confirm that yesterday was the first completely dry day at both Edinburgh Gogarbank and the botanic gardens in Edinburgh since 17 November, thus ending a run of 21 consecutive days without a single completely dry day at both of those stations. Having said that though, there hasn't really been any massive rainfall amounts on any of those days and because of that, our rainfall totals for this month so far are only around average for this stage of December according to the 1981-2010 averages.

Meanwhile, the temperature at midnight was 3.0°C at Edinburgh Gogarbank, 1°C at Edinburgh Airport and 2.1°C at the botanic gardens in Edinburgh.

Calm and dry with patchy light cloud. 5.2c

Clear Starry Sky.

5·5c.

1027 hPa.

Light Westerly Breeze.

Yesterday max 8.8c

Overnight Min 3.2c

1016mb

2c

Frost.

Roger

Clear light NW wind 5C.

Wind NNW slight breeze

Temp 3.2C

Last night's overnight minimum temperature was 0.1° at Edinburgh Gogarbank, -2°C at Edinburgh Airport and -1.3°C at the botanic gardens in Edinburgh.

Meanwhile, the temperature at 8am this morning was 1.0° at Edinburgh Gogarbank, -2°C at Edinburgh Airport and -0.5°C at the botanic gardens in Edinburgh.

Dull, damp and overcast

Temp 7.3C

Humidity 91%

Overnight rain 0.7mm

Pressure 1025mb

Altostratus with occasional breaks, light W breeze, dry.

7.8*C after a minimum of 5.6*C at 2.15am.

84%RH, 1024.3mb rising slowly.

3.7c, dry with some sunshine

light NW breeze

1025mb

Cloudy. 7.9c. Humidity 78% Rh.

1029 hPa. Westerly breeze 8 mph.

However, there is still some frost around although the temperatures have jumped up by quite a lot over the last hour or so, so that the temperature at 12 noon was 4.2°C at Edinburgh Gogarbank, 3°C at Edinburgh Airport and 2.3°C at the botanic gardens in Edinburgh.

Cloudy.

8.0c

1027.1mb steady

Ground frost in shade all day.

Today has been a cold day though with the frost never completely clearing away from north-facing shaded areas all day. On that note, today's maximum temperature was 5.4°C at Edinburgh Gogarbank, 5°C at Edinburgh Airport and 3.8°C at the botanic gardens in Edinburgh. We haven't yet had any really cold days during this winter (which in my book is day which either goes down as an official ice day or one where the temperature barely rises above freezing all day), so today was the coldest day of the winter so far at all three of my local stations.

Meanwhile, the temperature at 4pm this afternoon was 3.8°C at Edinburgh Gogarbank, 2°C at Edinburgh Airport and 2.1°C at the botanic gardens in Edinburgh.

I will give my usual final update of day the later on, but I can tell you that at 5pm this afternoon, the temperature at Edinburgh Airport was already down to 0°C.

This now means that the temperature at 8pm this evening was 2.3°C at Edinburgh Gogarbank, 1°C at Edinburgh Airport and 2.6°C at the botanic gardens in Edinburgh.