A clear night with an increasing west wind and a Min of 4 C. A strong Aurora visible all night until 6.30am! I've never seen it so strong over the city lights!

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Fantastic aurora for down here, some of the strongest reds I have seen, although obviously better through the phone camera.

As close to a frost as you can get, a min of 0.0c about 5 mins ago.

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First air frost at -0.1 this morning with frost on the car roof and on new grass too.

Minus 1.5 here at half six this morning. Grass was crispy and frost visible on shed and ground floor rooves. Had to scrape ice from the car before head office set off for work just before 8

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Clear and sunny after some overnight cloud. 5C.

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I used to live in Epsom and get very often low temps due to being hollow area more so at Redhill so often reach -10 often most annually winter seasons.  Here no I am on top of the hill but down the road likely lower than mine this morning.

When I used to travel to work in London from Redhill in the days when the data from the Redhill weather station was regularly mentioned on the TV forecasts, my colleagues were often amused that apparently I lived in the coldest place in the country. It could easily be 7 or 8 degrees cooler than in central London
Now I live close to the aerodrome I certainly notice how much colder it can be here than when we were 60 metres or so higher on the greensand ridge to the north
Still frosty on the shaded rooves here at 10 a.m.

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Lovely clear blue this morning, overnight low of 2.4c at 7:30 this morning. It's now 8.3c with a gentle breeze.

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I even managed to see the aurora borealis from my east facing bedroom window at around midnight just as I was going to bed, and it looked really spectacular, especially as I also had a good view of Jupiter at the same time with Mars also visible as it rose in the NE.

All of that came after a total of 7.8 hours of sunshine was recorded during the day at Edinburgh Gogarbank but despite those clear skies and a cold start to the night, the temperatures then refused to drop any further as the wind then picked up.

As a result, our wait for our first official air frost of the season goes on and not only did we not even get a ground frost, but we didn't even get close to that here.

We were supposed to get showers today though but as yet, these are nowhere to be seen and apart from some high cloud, it's ended up being fairly bright and sunny once again, and probably sunnier than what it was forecast to be.

According to weatherobs.com, the temperature everywhere else in the vicinity is still well down in single figures but here in Edinburgh, the temperature is already at around 10°C, probably as a result of some form of urban island effect even though Edinburgh is only a very small city in terms of its area and official population.

As a result, our wait for our first single figures maximum of the season looks likely to go on even though our temperature hasn't actually quite reached double figures just yet.

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12.7C, heavy cloud

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13.9C. Sunny spells and very light rain at times.

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I can report that Edinburgh Gogarbank has just had its first single figures maximum temperature of the season, but only just and no more as the official figure for that is 9.9°C.

Today got off to a fairly bright start but there was then a period of heavy rain which gave way to showers for a while although all of that has now cleared away.

Currently around 7°C here in Edinburgh.

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New week's thread starting early as I'm out from early tomorrow. Please post correctly.

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