After a chilly but clear night, with a light frost, fog set in some time between 2 and 3 AM. Since then the temperature has yo-yoed up and down, but the fog persists. It's presently -3.7, dew -4.4., the low so far being -3.8 - the coldest night of the cold spell. I'm not sure whether the fog is freezing fog or not.

Everything outside is covered in frost and I'm sure when it gets light it'll look fantastic!

... here it's -0.1C with well broken cloud, promising to be a nice day.

With the temperatures already being fairly low, we still managed to just scrape an official air frost and no more but the temperatures  didn't drop any lower than -1.7°C at Edinburgh Gogarbank and are already slightly above freezing as I write even though sunrise is still a while away yet.

In addition to that, this morning is also starting off on a much more cloudy and overcast note, so there will be no chance of us being able to see this morning's sunrise.

currently around 1°C here in Edinburgh.

The kind of day to go for a walk on the still snow covered beach or maybe watch the ice flow from the river into the sea.

https://www.seacroftmarine.com/webcams/east-webcam/ 

https://online.aberdeencity.gov.uk/services/Webcam/images/beach.jpg 

Wow! What an amazing spell for you Doc!

It's presently -3.3, dew -4.0 (remarkable for coming up to 10 in the morning), and the low ended up as -3.8.

Where Richard lately? With lot of snow and cold there he should be posting good news about it?  Enjoy for those who seeing sun as HP gloom will spread to everywhere today onward.

Overcast with a slow thaw, currently 0.9c, but still a lot of slippery surfaces underfoot.

1.7, dew 1.1, and that's the high so far.

In the end I opted for the Donside beach (in the northern part of the city as opposed to the central bit) and it was equally wintry with ice on the river and snow on the beach (4 images in the link).

https://postimg.cc/gallery/G4BbRdZ 

Currently sunny and 3.3°C but very little evidence of a thaw just yet as the ground is so deeply frozen.

Today isn't as cold as it has been lately and the temperature is currently around 4°C here in Edinburgh but although that is still around or slightly below the 1991-2020 January average, that has actually been enough to make today our warmest day of the year so far which just goes to show how cold this year has been so far, especially since that is also in complete contrast to what December was like.

Winter is over, roll on spring!!😡

Still 14-18cm snow on the lawn. The pavements are packed ice and I think they will  still take a few days to improve.