Is it ever going to cool down here in Edinburgh?
Yesterday, we had yet another maximum temperature of over 20ºC and now, I have lost count of how many times that has happened during this month.
In addition to that, the temperatures are also refusing to drop at night and as an example of that, last night's minimum temperature at Edinburgh Gogarbank was no lower than 13.6ºC.
These are ridiculously high temperatures for this time of the year, and are the sort of temperatures which we would be more likely to be expecting in July or early August rather than just now.
Yet, we are now past the Autumn Equnox which means that the nights are now longer than the days (and will be for the next 6 months) and of now, it is now officially "autumn" regardless of how we actually define that.
This means that it should be getting a lot colder than now and what is happening now, is in complete contrast to what happened at this time last year when we were already getting our first frosts of the combined autumn/winter season.
That makes me scared about what might happen during the coming winter (at this rate, we will still be experiencing summer-like conditions, even at Christmas), and also makes me very concerned about what is happening to this planet as a whole in terms of overall climate change.
It wouldn't be so bad if our weather was actually "interesting", but this has now become a location where it hardly ever rains any more (even the upcoming unsettled spell which is being shown on the last model output is considered in the 4 week medium term models to be only a brief blip from that).
In addition to that, we have also being seeing a lot of grey skies with absolutely nothing which is even remotely interesting in terms of our weather, actually happening. The upshot of this is that, sunshine totals in recent days have been very poor. Yesterday was a completely sunless day at Edinburgh Gogarbank and there has been very few days recently with more than an hour or so of sunshine during that entire day, so this is now on course for being another duller than average month in this part of the world.
When you add all of that of together, our weather really couldn't be any more boring and uninteresting than that, and the absolute truth is that our weather hardly ever changes from one day to the next any more, and we just just don't get changeable weather like what we used to get.
This in turn, has driven me towards being less and less interested in the weather over time, which is why I have been posting as regularly on here these days as what I had been beforehand.
Even other members have said that under these circumstances, I could always take up something else instead and that is exactly what I have doing recently, but I previously never thought that I would actually ever end up having to do that and that also tells you just how boring and uninteresting our weather actually is these days.
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.