Here in Edinburgh, a total of 4.0 hours of sunshine was recorded during yesterday at Edinburgh Gogarbank.
This means that there has now been more sunshine there during this month than the 1981-2010 January average for that particular station which means that regardless of what happens during the rest of this month, this month will now go down as as being sunnier than average.
However, today has been a completely sunless day with some rain around which has now just about, completely got of all of the lying snow which was here, apart from the odd isolated patch of it.
Today's officially recorded maximum temperature at Edinburgh Gogarbank was 2.9°C, and the temperature at 7pm this evening was around 2°C but already refusing to drop here in Edinburgh.
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.