Here in Edinburgh, a total of 22.8 mm of rain had fallen at Edinburgh Gogarbank since the start of the current observation day (which started at at 09:00 UTC (10am) yesterday morning) as at 05:00 UTC (6am, BST) this morning, along with 24.4 mm at the botanic gardens in Edinburgh.
It has been raining here virtually non-stop since yesterday afternoon, and it is still chucking it down with rain as I write. This means that the actual current total is likely to be much higher than what I have already reported and even up until 6am this morning, the current official observation day was already the wettest such day of this autumn so far (in some years, that is more than what we get during any day throughout that entire year).
As it is, this means that for Edinburgh Gogarbank, that now officially takes this month's total so far to 94.4 mm, the total for this autumn so far to 216.2 mm and the total for this year so far to 754.3 mm as at 05:00 UTC (6am this morning, BST).
For the botanic gardens in Edinburgh, that officially takes the total for this month so far to 107.2 mm, the total for this autumn so far to 185.6 mm and the total for this year so far to 704.3 mm as at 06:00 UTC (6am this morning, BST).
For both of those stations, this means that there has already been more rain during this month than the 1981-2010 average for each respective station which means that regardless of what happens during the rest of this month and despite the fact that this month is statistically our wettest month of the year according to those 1981-2010 averages (which means that more rain is needed for this month to be wetter than average than is the case for any other month), this month will go down as being wetter than average.
This has been the second month of this year where more than 100 mm of rain has fallen at the botanic gardens in Edinburgh, and it is likely that this month will be the third such occasion where this has happened at Edinburgh if that indeed, hasn't happened already.
For Edinburgh Gogarbank, this also means that a minimum total of just 17.2 mm of rain now needs to have fallen between 6am this morning and the end of this year, in order for the whole of 2019 to go down as being wetter than average overall.
For the botanic gardens in Edinburgh, this means that a minimum total of just 14.8 mm of rain now needs to have fallen between 6am this morning and the end of this year, in order for the whole of this year to go down as being wetter than average overall.
In addition to that, a minimum total of just 15.9 mm of rain now needs to have fallen between 6am this morning and the end of November, in order for this autumn to go down as being wetter than average overall.
From all of that, I think that it is probably safe to say now that we will have more than made up the rainfall deficit by the end of this year, which built up during last year and the early part of this year.
Edited by user
19 October 2019 06:35:57
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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.