Today has started off on a mostly cloudy note here in Edinburgh and everything looks a bit wet from some earlier rainfall.

However, my recent experiences have told that even looking at the most recent rainfall data for this area is a complete waste of time as there is never anything meaningful to report from that anymore, so I have now completely given up on doing that.

That is something which I had hoped that I never have to end up doing, but that is the sad and sorry state of just how predictable and boring, our weather (or rather, the lack of any actual weather in these parts) has now become.

One difference from yesterday though is that there are a few breaks in that cloud with the occasional sunny interval, so today shouldn't at least end up being completely sunless like what yesterday was.

Last night's overnight minimum temperature was 11.0°C at Edinburgh Gogarbank.

Meanwhile, the temperature at 8am BST (07:00 UTC) this morning was around 13°C here in Edinburgh.

Sunny Intervals. 15.0c. Humidity 78% Rh.

Southerly breeze 9 mph.

1010 hPa. 

Showery.

12.9c

1009.4mb rising

2.2mm

Here in Edinburgh, it is now absolutely chucking it down with rain as I write, thus providing our gardens with some very welcome and much needed rainfall at long last.

Meanwhile, the temperature at 11am BST (10:00 UTC) this morning was around 16°C here in Edinburgh.

Not quite so Summer-like with overcast skies and a rather below par 17.7 C. But still dry and winds are light so it is feeling comfortably mild anyway.

Here in Edinburgh, the earlier heavy showers have cleared away and this afternoon has been brighter, but with only occasional sunny intervals.

As at 4pm BST (15:00 UTC) this afternoon though, a total of just 36 minutes of sunshine has been recorded for the whole of today so far at Edinburgh Gogarbank which would be considered to be really abysmal even in the darkest part of the winter, let alone in the middle of summer.

Since tomorrow isn't looking all that sunny either according to the latest forecasts, this month is now unlikely to end up being our sunniest month of this year as is the case up in Aberdeen.

Furthermore, this month will actually now end up being yet another duller than month at Edinburgh Gogarbank if we don't manage to get an overall total of at least 7.1 more hours of sunshine between now and the end of tomorrow.

This is showing us once again that actually getting a sunnier than average summer month is clearly too much to ask for in this part of the world, even though we were lucky enough to have got away with getting quite a lot of sunshine during last summer.

The temperatures aren't too bad and the temperature at 4pm BST (15:00 UTC) this afternoon was around 18°C here in Edinburgh after peaking at around 19°C about an hour or so ago.

Wet.

10.9c

1009.7mb rising

10.2mm