White Rabbits everyone, and welcome to the winter of 2023/24.
Here in Edinburgh, this winter has started off on a very cold and frosty note and in fact, last night was our coldest night of the overall autumn/winter season so far by some considerable amount as last night's overnight temperatures got down to -6.01°C at Edinburgh Gogarbank, around -6°C at Edinburgh Airport and -3.9°C at the botanic gardens in Edinburgh.
The only downside is that last night's overnight minimum will officially count as part of the autumn statistics as the first observation day of the winter didn't start until 9am GMT (09:00 UTC) this morning. This means that last night will go down in the final statistics as the coldest night of the autumn, and the coldest night of November.
However, we are now into that first official observation day of the winter which means that if the temperature doesn't suddenly rise above freezing within the next hour, the first official air frost of the winter will already have been recorded, even in the highly unlikely event of it suddenly getting a lot milder later on (that is unlikely to happen and if anything, there is even the chance of at least one ice day being recorded over the next few days).
Somehow, we have managed to avoid all of the snow here in NW Edinburgh which just about everyone else has been getting, even here in Edinburgh but it's still looking very white out there anyway with all of the frost which is around.
Meanwhile, the temperature at 9am GMT (09:00 UTC) this morning was still down around -5°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.