2.0C. Clear to the east, leaving a frost on cars etc., patches of cloud overhead moving north, thicker continuous cloud cover showing up in the west. The forecasted Channel Low is on its way!

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Red sky in the morning, shepherd's warning. Clear here apart from a bit of cloud on the eastern horizon (which is halfway across the North Sea, looking at the satellite view!)

Cold, calm and frosty. Yesterday ended up going down to -0.1 after I posted, so just about scraped in! Today is much more emphatic: it's -0.9, dew -1.7, with a low so far of -1.1 - the coldest night for four weeks. There's a thick hoar frost on many surfaces.

Yesterday's high was 9.6, so a little above average.

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-1C and a ground frost.

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-4.2C here with hint of mist.
 

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3C with light airs from the SSE. Still bright but clouding over.

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A clear, frosty night (-1 C) with a nice sunrise earlier but thick low cloud now

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Light rain.
5.7c
991.5mb steady
3.4mm

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The models are beginning to show a blocked and wintry outlook. Can’t believe the Model output thread is soooooooo quiet. Too many false dawns perhaps? I have a feeling this might be the one that verifies.

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A combination of the winter crowd moving on (leaving those who for whatever reason are less keen on potenential snow in early spring), "once bitten twice shy" and it still being far too far out for any sense of reliability, I'd guess.

Meanwhile in the here and now, in the dying days of winter, I was amused to see the 15-30+mm of rain as forecast by the various models a couple of days out has turned into all of 6mm, as the low has tracked further south. To be fair the small-scale models such as ICON D2 picked the change up first, then the MetO hi-res, and last of all the GFS.

The usual wind tables have turned, too, with the MetO raw going for much higher winds right from the off - GFS has gradually caught up. I can only guess it's because of the direction, straight from the North Sea...

It's presently 7.7C with a strong and gusty NE'ly (gusting to 51-52mph), cloudy but dry.

The low so far is 7.4 and yesterday's high was 7.9.

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4C. After yesterdays deluge it's dried up overnight. There is now a brisk and uncomfortable, cutting and almost lazy NE wind.

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The wind is really roaring out there - the highest sustained winds of the winter, and the gusts are up there too.

The yacht club up the road is reporting a 1-hour mean of just over 40mph, frequent gusts into the low 50s... another gale, in other words.

It's damaged the roof of the Isle's Tesco, too, so that's closed today. (Tesco is right next to the sea, on the site of the former Sheerness Zoo!)

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5.4C, cloudy with a few breaks as the strong NE-ly wind stirs up the clouds.

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Shower chains with icy bits from North Sea, and 3.5C

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A third consecutive air frost here -2 C

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A cold and frosty start to this morning with an official air frost being recorded at all three of my local stations here in Edinburgh.

This is now our third air frost in a row which in the space of just those last three days, has now doubled the total number of air frosts which we have had during this entire month.

That has also brought us into a bright and sunny start to this morning and in that sunshine, the temperature has already jumped up to around 5°C here in Edinburgh which isn't even all that cold any more.😡

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Unpleasant day with frequent sleety showers and strong northerly wind - they do soon go through though and have only amounted to about 1mm so far. 4.6C currently

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The wind is finally dying down here - I can hear the water circulating in the radiators now, whereas before it was drowned out, even though I'm on the other side of the house to where the wind is hitting!

It's been cloudy, dull and very windy all day long.

Currently 6.9, dew 3.0, the high today being 7.9.

 

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Strong NE wind  wet start then dry but mainly cloudy few brighter moments this pm  Feeling unpleasantly cold at 7 c max   

0C. Clear and calm with frost. A contrast to yesterdays almost gale force winds from the NE.

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2.4C. clear barring some faint high cloud, light frost

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2C with a band of sleety rain from west just starting.

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5C. Calm and cloudy with thick fog in the valley.

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Light rain now set in - and forecast to last, getting heavier, for the next 24 hours. February fill-dyke, indeed! Cloud base on the Downs lying at about 500-600 feet.

EDIT - an hour later, and the mist is obscuring the top of the cathedral spire at 270 feet

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9.8C. Rain

Perhaps this thread should be merged with the precipitation thread?

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Personally, I prefer the two separate threads as they are.

Precipitation threads are only ever created once every month and so if you merged these threads with that, you would only really have one thread per month where you could report the general current conditions for your neck of the woods (which this thread is for).

In addition to that and if you have ever read my own posts on the precipitation threads (I have just posted one there just now), you will notice that I go into quite a lot of details there about rainfall amounts and the number of rain days with those details being reported the month, season and year in question.

If you merged that thread with this one, that single combined thread (which would probably have to named something like "mmmm yyyy - Current Conditions and Precipitation Thread" where mmmm is the current month and where yyyy is the current year) could well become very cluttered very quickly and the whole purpose of having that separate monthly precipitation thread was to reduce that clutter.

However, it is not up to me to decide that. That is up to the rest of you to decide whether you want to keep those threads separate or have a combined monthly current conditions and precipitation thread.

If the rest of you want to have a combined thread for that, I will happily go along with that, although my own preference is to keep those two threads separate as mentioned above.

Meanwhile and back on topic, today is a day which falls only once every four days and so the only reason that today's date even exists is due to this year being a leap year.

In addition to that, today is also the last day of this month and the final day of the meteorological winter.

As regards to the weather, today has started off on a bright and sunny note here in Edinburgh after the clearance of overnight rain.

This morning is also back to being frost-free here but as from tomorrow, I will no longer be bothered about that as we will then be into the start of meteorological spring.

Meanwhile, the temperature here in Edinburgh was around 6°C as at 8:20am GMT (08:20 UTC) this morning.
 

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