Still dry under trees and bushes. 8.9C

Today's maximum temperature at Edinburgh Gogarbank is officially confirmed as 11.9°C with just a measly half an hour of sunshine being recorded there throughout the entire day.

Currently around 9°C here in Edinburgh

I note quite a lot of blocking over Greenland and a -NAO, So this is probably all due to this SSW we had in MARCH. This sort of setting had occurred in winter months we could have been talking about a lot of heavy snow.

The rain previously forecast for Friday is now absent in the forecast. (It shows in the pictorial but not the written).

The long dry spell to all intents continues.

We didn't have an SSW, though, it was the final warming.

Blocked, east/NE patterns are common after the final warming.

EDIT: And as this is the cc thread, mostly cloudy with a brisk SW'ly. 8.9, dew 5.8, after a low of 8.2 and a high yesterday of 18.7.

Not to last looking at the radar I think. Laundry out after this. 

Perhaps the laundry should have gone out earlier to encourage a longer lasting shower. (just joking).

A remarkably cool night just gone inspite of the cloud.

Shower complete.

To make matters even worse, it's now also started raining here as well.

Its the same thing essentially and any rates it's on the met office site and they forecast a 90% chance of an SSW. Are you saying they are wrong?

Yes, they were wrong. It was the final warming.

The final warming is when the winds turn negative for the last time in the season - which was very early this year.

We're having our windows painted! 😬

Today's maximum temperature at Edinburgh Gogarbank was just an abysmal 8.1°C which actually makes today our coldest day of the month so far within the very time of year when it should be warming up.

It was also a completely sunless day at Edinburgh Gogarbank with not even a single hint of brightness throughout the entire day and to top it all up, a total of 8.0 mm of rain has also been recorded at Edinburgh Gogarbank throughout today.

Absolutely pathetic!!😡

You lost me there retron. A final warming is caused by an SSW and if you're saying that it WAS the SSW which caused the final warming then I agree so...yes!!

Back OT tonight is much calmer clearer and fresh 4c - feeling very cold in the wind.

Final warmings aren't classed as SSWs, it's simple as that! An SSW implies that winds return positive shortly afterwards, not after the entire summer season.

That made yesterday our windiest day of this month so far but as well as changing direction, the wind has also died down this morning, thus making it feel nowhere near as cold.

Today is still starting off largely cloudy even with that but unlike in other recent days, there has been the odd break in that cloud cover and even the odd hint of brightness earlier on.

Currently around 7°C here in Edinburgh.