Today's weather here in Edinburgh (or rather, the lack of any sort of actual weather in this case) sums up just exactly why I have now changed my signature at the bottom of all of my posts to how it is just now.
There was a little bit of rain during the middle of the day, but that amounted to just a rather pathetic and tediously small total of 0.4 mm at Edinburgh Gogarbank and 0.6 mm at the botanic gardens in Edinburgh.
Since then, the rest of the day has just degenerated into yet another complete and utter summer borefest with yet more constant grey skies and nothing which is even remotely interesting in terms of our weather, actually happening.
This has resulted in yet another abysmal sunshine total with just 48 minutes of sunshine being recorded for the whole of today so far, at Edinburgh Gogarbank as at 7pm this evening. This means that 4 days into this month, we still haven't yet yielded a single day which has produced any more than an hour of sunshine throughout that entire day.
Today's maximum temperature at Edinburgh Gogarbank was a rather disappointing 15.6°C which isn't even the least bit warm for this time of the year, although the temperature at 7pm this evening had gone up slightly to around 16°C here 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.