This afternoon started off on a fairly sunny note, but there is now a lot of cloud around although a total of 3.4 hours of sunshine has now been recorded for today so far at Edinburgh Gogarbank as at 4pm this afternoon.
Today's maximum temperature was 15.2°C at Edinburgh Gogarbank, 16°C at Edinburgh Airport and 16.4°C at the botanic gardens in Edinburgh. That makes today the warmest day of this spring so far at all three of my local stations and the warmest day of this year so far at the botanic gardens in Edinburgh.
Meanwhile, the temperature at 4pm this afternoon was 14.4°C at Edinburgh Gogarbank, 14°C at Edinburgh Airport and 15.1°C at the botanic gardens 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.