Despite the fact that we've been bombarded by one weather system after another during the last week, most of the rain from them has actually avoided here altogether with each weather front bringing us only around a fraction of 1 mm, or possibly around 1 mm at the most.
That is clearly not enough for me to even be bothered about producing any sort of report on that here, especially given that the totals keep going up elsewhere.
This is yet more evidence of the fact that Edinburgh in general, just doesn't get "interesting" weather, and that fact that wet spells never last all that long here before it all dries up yet again, sometimes even when it is not actually being forecast to do so.
The end result of this is that although we will have a slightly wetter than average month in the end here, our totals are actually likely to be not that much different from our 1991-2020 average in the end so even now, there is still nothing really happening here to show that we are even making any sort of indent into that massive deficit which still exists here, and which dates all the way back to the summer of 2021.
In fact, I have confirm that even more by giving the totals for Swanston in the south of Edinburgh. That data only goes up to 9am BST (09:00 UTC) yesterday morning as I write but since yesterday was a mostly dry day yet again with very little in the way of actual recorded rainfall coming from yet another weather front which did cross here during the afternoon, the totals which I am about to report from there should be a fairly accurate representation of what they currently are. These totals are:
Monthly Data
Total for October 2022: 87.9 mm (90.05% of the long term October Average)
Number of Rain Days during October 2022: 15 (no information on the long term averages for the number of rain days has been given here)
Number of Dry Days during October 2022: 4
That total is still 2.1 mm short of the long term October average and after today, there is only tomorrow left to go until the end of this month, so we are going to be struggling to even get a wetter than average month there, thus showing that it isn't actually the whole of Edinburgh which is seen a wetter than average month this time and yet, we would normally expect the south of Edinburgh to be a bit wetter on average than the north of Edinburgh due to its higher elevation above the mean sea level.
Seasonal Data
Total for Autumn 2022: 197.2 mm (79.8% of the long-term autumn average)
Number of Rain Days during Autumn 2022: 26
Number of Dry Days during Autumn 2022: 16
That figure for the total amount is far greater than the totals for Edinburgh Gogarbank and the botanic gardens in Edinburgh, but these totals are massively skewed by the total on one particular day (8 September 2022) when there was a massive rain event which greatly impacted the south of Edinburgh, but which largely stayed to the south of here and although that system did impact us as later on, the totals at my other local stations ended up being nowhere near as much. That total was 53.8 mm, and the official station records show that this gave them their third wettest day on record.
Annual Data
Total for the whole of 2022 so far: 556.9 mm (64.3% of the long-term annual average)
Total Number of Rain Days During 2022 so far: 99
Total Number of Dry Days during 2022 so far: 117
Notes
Here, I have calculated each of the above summaries based on data which I have been taken from the Swanston Weather Station's own website at https://www.swanstonweather.co.uk.
The long term averages which I have used here are not the exact figures for those averages, but my own estimates for those averages based on the information which has been provided on the summary at the bottom of each monthly data's page which they started to produce at the beginning of 2020.
Furthermore, there is no information on which time period these averages cover (1991-2020, or whatever). I have a hunch that these are probably 1991-2020 averages which they started to use last 2021 as there is more of a significant different difference in these averages between 2020 and 2021 which would suggest that they would probably have been going by the older 1981-2010 averages before then, but there is not actually enough information there for me to be able to accurately make such an assumption.
Edited by user
30 October 2022 08:57:32
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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.