First of all, I would like to wish all of you with an Irish persuasion a very happy St. Patrick's Day (I'm not Irish of course, but the Republic of Ireland is one of the few countries outside of the UK which I have visited in the past).
Anyway, the skies are now much clearer after yesterday's completely sunless washout of a day but although it's nowhere near as windy as what it has been recently, there is still enough of a wind around to prevent the temperatures from dropping at the moment.
In the end, a total of 16.8 mm of rain fell during yesterday at Edinburgh Gogarbank with some of that falling as snow during the morning, along with 18.0 mm at the botanic gardens in Edinburgh. That makes yesterday the wettest day of this year so far at both of those stations.
Meanwhile, the temperature at midnight was 2.3°C at Edinburgh Gogarbank, 2°C at Edinburgh Airport and 2.2°C at the botanic gardens in Edinburgh which means that the temperature has barely changed at all since my last report here at 8pm yesterday evening, a whole 4 hours ago.
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.