Thanks Gav.
I suppose that for here in Scotland, our winter borefest goes on to an even greater extent.
It's just a shame that this big area of high pressure couldn't reposition itself either to our north or west, so that it brings in either some really cold air from Siberia with bitterly cold easterly winds and a lot of snow, or a direct northerly blast from the Arctic.
That would just be wishful thinking though and as we all know, that is something which doesn't tend to ever happen at this time of the year when we really want that the most.
I suppose though at other times of the year, it would be a completely story and because of that, I've lost track of all of the times that we've had "if only it were winter" synoptic setups even in the middle of summer, which have resulted in us getting a lot of rain from a cold trough that is sitting right over the UK underneath the northern blocking which is around at that time.
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.