Thanks to Storm Gareth which is now making its presence fully felt in this part of the world, this has turned into a very wild night here with the wind at Edinburgh Gogarbank now gusting up to 46.0mph from the SSW as at midnight.

There was a little bit of rain around, especially during the early part of the evening. However, this has amounted to very little and so in the end, a total of 1.0 mm of rain fell during yesterday along with just 0.6 mm at the botanic gardens in Edinburgh although this was enough to mean that yesterday will go down as yet another official rain day at Edinburgh Gogarbank.

With all of that cloud and wind around, the temperatures haven't dropped a bit during the night, and have actually gone up during the last couple of hours.

Meanwhile, the temperature at midnight was 8.2°C at Edinburgh Gogarbank, 8°C at Edinburgh Airport and 8.2°C at the botanic gardens in Edinburgh.

Patchy cloud, showery and blustery. 7.8c

Cloudy 8C with gusty F6 to 7 wind.

Max yesterday 9.1c

Overnight Min 6.5c

Wind SW light breeze

Temp 2.2C

This morning has started off on a rather wet and miserable note and although the rain has cleared away for now, it remains rather overcast as I write.

Nevertheless, a total of 5.4 mm of rain has been recorded for today so far at Edinburgh Gogarbank as at 8am this morning along with 3.8 mm at the botanic gardens in Edinburgh. This means that today will once again, go down as yet another official rain day at both of those stations.

It's not as windy just as what it was during the night, but the wind at Edinburgh Gogarbank was still gusting up to 32.3mph from the west at Edinburgh Gogarbank at 8am this morning.

After a mild night, the temperatures have dropped by quite a bit over the last few hours and so, the temperature at 8am was 4.0°C at Edinburgh Gogarbank, 4°C at Edinburgh Airport and 3.4°C at the botanic gardens in Edinburgh.

I don`t know if it rained all night but we`ve had 15.5mm since midnight, and it`s still raining.

Temp 5.7C

Overnight low 5.5C

Pressure 1000mb.

Moderate sleet 2.7c

Low cloud cover, strong and blustery SW wind; dry after 0.5mm rain since midnight.

8.4*C after a minimum of 7.4*C from 5.00am to 5.45am.

88%RH; 1004.0mb, falling steadily and rapidly, with a drop of 14mb in just over 3 hours since midnight.

I know that Ian in Folkestone (Hi Ian!) doesn't like stormy weather, and I'd rather have settled weather for doing things outside, but I must admit today's weather is a bit more interesting than weeks of HP dominated conditions.

I was also struck by the squall line visible on the rainfall radar, associated with the cold front moving across the country this morning, which from the bends in the isobars shown on the 06 UTC fax chart must be a pretty active one.  At the time of posting, the squall line extends (with the exception of a break between the south midlands and the south coast, and a couple of smaller breaks to the southwest) from off the coast of Lincolnshire in the NE to not far off the Brest Peninsula in France in the SW. Quite a major feature.

I expect a further decline in temperature.

Temp has dropped a further 0.6c in past 15 minutes since last post now 5.9c,

Edit: 5.7c - heavy rain!!

The heavy rain here is now passing but the River here, esp by the the works for the new Bridge, is quite worryingly high!!!

4.6c still heavy rain and it's sounding more icy as it hits the windows.

Looks like this system will pass within the next hour - can we get below 4c and see this heavy rain turn to heavy sleet or not? hmm.??

https://www.accuweather.com/en/gb/exeter/ex2-4/weather-forecast/327655

Come on! Pep up precipitation haha! 

Reminds me of this situation on 30th March last year.

Either way this is some drop of around 4c in past 2 hrs. - impressive!

The rain has yet to arrive here but is quite overcast and windy thus made the 9.1 c & 84% h felt fresh when I popped out to get the papers.

Blustery winds with heavy rain earlier.  Now still overcast And raining.

4.1c.  Humidity 89%  Rh.

 1003 hPa.  Westerly breeze 8 - 17 mph. 

Quite a violet squall as that cold front swept through just now and so dark I've had to turn house lights on.

Wet & wild here! Temp 9.3c , pressure falling quickly 999mb 

4.4c

Squall line came through here from 2.05pm-2.10pm.  Very wet and blustery, but I've known worse (such as the one I found myself in when out in the countryside with nothing but a tree to shelter in the lee of).  There was small hail mixed in with the rain, which bounced off the windowsills.

Actually I thought it was purple rather than violet.

Front went through earlier and temp is now 4C with much lighter F 3 breeze.