The brief drier spell during yesterday evening didn't last for long as it is now raining quite heavily here in Edinburgh once again.

In the end, a total of 4.4 mm of rain fell during yesterday at Edinburgh Gogarbank, along with 3.6 mm at the botanic gardens in Edinburgh with some of that falling as sleet and wet snow for a while during yesterday evening.

Having said that though, the wind appears to have died down as the centre of Storm Deirdre has passed through, although the presence of too much cloud means that the temperatures are still refusing to drop.

Meanwhile, the temperature at midnight was 2.3°C at Edinburgh Gogarbank, 2°C at Edinburgh Airport and 2.4°C at the botanic gardens in Edinburgh.

Calm/very light winds, clear spells, 4.4 C @ 94% RH and pressure has risen rapidly to 998 mb.

Calm and clear. 4.8c

Clear.

4.9c

1006.6mb rising

The overnight rain has now finally cleared away and there are some patches of clear sky around. However, there is still a lot of cloud around and the presence of an anvil top to my east which is clearly the top of a cumulonimbus cloud tells me that there are still a few showers around.

The wind has picked up again during the early hours of this morning but because the very centre of Storm Deirdre had already moved through during last night, the wind is now coming from the exact opposite direction from where it was coming from then so that the wind at 8am this morning was now gusting up to 33.6mph from the west at Edinburgh Gogarbank with maximum gusts during this morning of up to 34.2mph from the SW as at 8am this morning.

The overnight rain has resulted in a total of 4.6 mm of rain being recorded for today so far at Edinburgh Gogarbank as at 8am this morning along with 3.2 mm at the botanic gardens in Edinburgh. This means that today will now go down as yet another official rain day at both of those stations as a result.

With the change of wind direction to more of an Atlantic air mass, this morning is slightly milder than of late, so the temperature at 8am this morning was 3.9°C at Edinburgh Gogarbank, 4°C at Edinburgh Airport and 4.0°C at the botanic gardens in Edinburgh.

Wind SW light breeze

Temp 5.4C

Yesterday max 4.5c

Overnight Mmin 2.4c

The change in air mass has made it much colder than recently here. Still frost free dross but the min of 1.4C was easily the coldest since the SE'ly muck set in on Tuesday. The skies are also the clearest since then too. 3.7C just now, which is about a degree colder than the same time yesterday, but the usual nasty wind is still rattling away and won't relent until spring.

There really is nothing to like about the unremittingly vile season of winter these days. Nothing at all

......except if you live 100 miles in a south- west direction from you, where we have a pale winter sun shining over miles of snowfields this morning. Snow started falling around 6pm last night. We have slow thaw this morning, but still very beautiful.......

Clear, calm.

3.9*C after a minimum of 0.8*C at 8am.

94%RH, 1006.0mb rising slowly.

Nice to see sunshine again.

2c at 4pm. 10c at midnight and 0.2c at 7am this morning.

Sunny and clear now, calm with a temperature of 7.1c 

Overcast. Some Drizzle. 

7.7c. Humidity 81% Rh.

1005 hPa. Southerly Breeze 4 - 8 mph.

However, some showers during the early part of this morning have increased today's rainfall total so far as at 12 noon to 5.4 mm at Edinburgh Gogarbank and 3.4 mm at the botanic gardens in Edinburgh.

Nevertheless, the wind has died down a bit and it is slightly milder than of late, so the temperature at 12 noon was 6.7°C at Edinburgh Gogarbank, 6°C at Edinburgh Airport and 6.1°C at the botanic gardens in Edinburgh.

After what has been a delightfully sunny morning, it's now gone all gloomy and overcast with a passing light shower. However, we've lost the cold with 9.4 c & 90% h under lighter winds so the central heating is not having to work that hard to keep the house warm today.

Max was 9.8 c at 1 pm from a min of 2.5 c at 6.30 am.

Rain. Humidity 89%  Rh. 

This means that a total of just 9.4 hours of sunshine or more, is now needed for the period between now and the end of this month in order for this month to go down as being sunnier than average overall, and that is with there still being another 15 days to go until the end of this month, so we now only need to see an average of 37.2 minutes of sunshine per day or more over that period in order for that to happen.

Today's maximum temperature was 7.3°C at Edinburgh Gogarbank, 7°C at Edinburgh Airport and 7.1°C at the botanic gardens in Edinburgh.

Meanwhile, the temperature at 4pm this afternoon was 4.0°C at Edinburgh Gogarbank, 4°C at Edinburgh Airport and 4.4°C at the botanic gardens in Edinburgh.

Meanwhile, the temperature at 8pm this evening was 6.0°C at Edinburgh Gogarbank, 5°C at Edinburgh Airport and 5.2°C at the botanic gardens in Edinburgh.

The rain belt is now exiting Kent as I write this, along with the wind changing direction (S veering to W) and dropping down. Got 5.6 mm out of this one as well as being a mild night at 8.6 c.