A beautiful day with winter sunshine made brighter by the light reflected off the snow although it's melting quite fast.

For anyone who hasn't found this, the current sat image of the UK clearly shows the current snow in the South.

For me it's imby interesting how the snow begins north of Weymouth over the chalk ridgeway, then there seems to be an area North Dorset heading nw into Somerset and the Bristol Channel/Bridgwater area snow free. Exmoor, Dartmoor, Bodmin seem well covered but have a look.

The Poole/Bournemouth conurbation and coast going east is well marked by the absence of snow. And so on... Pompey snow free zone plus ça change.

https://lance-modis.eosdis.nasa.gov/imagery/subsets/?subset=Europe_2_01.2019033.terra.250m

Nick

The Sun is still shining here in Edinburgh and a completely sunny afternoon means that a total of 5.8 hours of sunshine has now been recorded for today so far at Edinburgh Gogarbank as at 4pm this afternoon.

However, today's rainfall total due to snow melt so far as at 4pm this afternoon was 0.8 mm at Edinburgh Gogarbank and 0.8 mm at the botanic gardens in Edinburgh.

Today's maximum temperature was 3.9°C at Edinburgh Gogarbank, 4°C at Edinburgh Airport and 4.9°C at the botanic gardens in Edinburgh, so it's ended up not even being all that cold for this time of the year.

Meanwhile, the temperature at 4pm this afternoon was 3.6°C at Edinburgh Gogarbank, 3°C at Edinburgh Airport and 3.3°C at the botanic gardens in Edinburgh.

-0.6c Today's high (midnight)

-7.9c Today's low (9.30 am)

1014 Mb. rising slowly

6.64 hrs. of sunshine

Clear starry sky.

A sunny end to the day means that in the end, a total of 6.3 hours of sunshine was recorded for today as this very sunny start to the month goes on.

That has now taken us into a cold and clear evening so far, with an official air frost already being recorded at all three of my local stations.

Meanwhile, the temperature at 8pm this evening was -1.1°C at Edinburgh Gogarbank, -2°C at Edinburgh Airport and -2.4°C at the botanic gardens in Edinburgh.

Temp 1.7C DP 1C rain/sleet showers.

Max 4C.

I have to say I am very envious of you in an area just two hours from here. It sounds fantastic. We've had no lying snow and about 3 hours of sunshine for january. (slight exaggeration). Same again today with a brisk wing and mainly grey skies of thick cloud.

Yet another rubbish day in East Anglia. Earlier snow showers turned to sleet and rain on another mainly grey, breezy unpleasant day.

Is tonight looking less cold than forecast? Above freezing here and looking around the Country only down to -1C or -2C over the snowfields at midnight.