I've just woke up and I can report that it is now snowing here in the north of Edinburgh and that this snow is now lying here.with the temperature having dropped to 1°C as at 3am this morning.
That is already in complete contrast to last winter when we didn't even get our first snowflakes until the end of February. We did get a little bit of lying snow from that which came from the returning polar air mass behind Storm Ciara as that system moved away. Furthermore, that then quickly melted away and was the only lying snow which got at any time during that winter.
If this winter continues in the same vain though as what we are seeing just now, that will certainly make up for it.
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.