In many ways, the prospects of high pressure being in charge for the rest of this month is actually bad news for us in terms of rainfall. We did get some rain at the weekend, but this was still not enough to alleviate the dry start to this month which we have had in these parts. Furthermore, the rain which we did get at the weekend was still not as much as what other parts of the UK got.
Here in the east of Scotland, I am living in what is probably one of the driest parts of the UK just now, and an area which badly needs to start seeing some sustained rainfall if we are to reduce the rainfall deficit which has built up over the summer months. With high pressure now being forecast to be in charge for the foreseeable future, it looks as though not only are there no signs of that deficit being reduced, but that deficit is just going to grow even larger over time as we go into an even drier spell of weather during the foreseeable future.
This means that if we were then to have a dry winter and a dry spring, things could then get extremely serious and critical, especially if we were to then, go into another dry summer next year as well. That is the most worrying aspect of having high pressure in charge during the foreseeable future, but is only one aspect of that because there is also the question of whether this will be a clear high or a cloudy high. If it is a clear high, the outlook could actually be quite interesting because this is around the time of year when we would expect to be seeing our first official air frosts, and the best chance of that happening is going to under high pressure with clear skies at night. Could the fact that we are going to have high pressure around, mean that we now finally get our first official air frosts of the season which has eluded us here in Edinburgh until now?
However, it would just be like the thing if we ended up under a cloudy high. If that happens, then our borefest just goes on because those cloudy nights would mean that the temperatures carried on refusing to drop at nights, and there is also a risk of us going into a real and proper permacast hell during day with each day being yet another boring and overcast grey nothingness, with yet more constant grey skies.
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.