Today, there was the promise of some "interesting" weather for here today of the rather convective variety, albeit with this area itself being just outside today's yellow warning area.
In the 5 day forecast video which Gavin P. released today, he also indicated that this might happen. of course, I would never suggest that "interesting" weather never actually happens here, but getting any sort of "interesting" weather in this part of the world is usually always too much to ask for, for the vast majority of the time.
In a way, Gavin P. probably recognises that to a certain extent and I'm sure that this may well have formed part of his reasons for not producing a stormwatch video to cover any such events which occur today.
Meanwhile back on topic though and on to what all of this is leading up, I can now report that the weather had indeed intervened to show that getting "interesting" weather is usually always too much to ask for in these parts.
Indeed, instead of that more "interesting" weather which was suggested by the official forecast, what has actually happened is that this afternoon has once again descended into yet another dull and overcast borefest with yet more constant grey skies and with nothing which is even remotely interesting in terms of our weather actually happening.
The result of this is that a total of just 1.7 hours of sunshine has been recorded for today so far at Edinburgh Gogarbank as at 5pm this afternoon with nothing at all in that department since 1pm this afternoon.
I currently don't have enough available data for the botanic gardens in Edinburgh to be able to report today's maximum temperature across all three of my local stations but out of all of the available data which I have, the best figure for that was 22°C as recorded at Edinburgh Airport.
Meanwhile, the temperature at 5pm this afternoon was 18.6°C at Edinburgh Gogarbank, 19°C at Edinburgh Airport and 19.9°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.