So, once again a large high pressure is set to dominate the weather over the next couple of weeks bringing an easterly/northerly airflow over the country for the 3rd time since the start of 'Spring'...!! all through 'Winter' we had incessant wet, windy, mild westerlies producing a snowless 'winter' for the first time in my neck of the woods which was just ridiculous yet just when you expect the warmer weather to start we get perfect winter charts bringing single figure temps on the east coast...!! not what the butterflies, bees, ladybirds and summer visitors such as Swallows, House Martins need...unbelievable...!
As a result of all of that as well, all that we are likely to get here in the east coast of both Scotland and England (since it's not winter) is yet more easterly muck coming in from off the North Sea, along with cooler temperatures whilst it at least gets a bit warmer further inland with a greater chance of some sunshine. Because of that, I fear that our weather is about to get even more boring and uninteresting here in Edinburgh as a result, as if our weather wasn't already boring enough in this part of the world.
However, I had a feeling some time ago, that this would happen not so much due to the recent SSW Event (which didn't even propagate very well down to the 30 hPa level of the stratosphere, let along the troposphere where all of the weather actually happens), but due to the annual seasonal warming of the stratosphere which occurs anyway, due to the sunshine becoming that much stronger at this time of year.
Given that the exceptionally powerful polar vortex which is thought to have caused all of those flooding issues during the latter part of the winter in particular, was probably the result of an exceptionally cold stratosphere over the North Pole, it was always going to the case that in order for the stratospheric temperatures to recover to around normal, the amount of seasonal warming of the stratosphere would need to be so great that the effect of that on the troposphere would probably be similar to that of a SSW event anyway.
I would say that this is probably what has resulted in the current northern blocking being in place which is around just now, and which is likely to around for a while yet, resulting in those wind patterns which you have mentioned.
The north of Edinburgh, usually always missing out on snow events which occur not just within the rest of Scotland or the UK, but also within the rest of Edinburgh.