Jiries, along with richardabdn and moomin are 'neck of the woods' specialists.
But did you see, John, the BBC weather presenters with rainfall figures for Spring? IIRC 230% of average for SE England and 46% of average for SE Scotland. Now there's cause for a moan at both ends of the country (If I can call Edinburgh an 'end' - I know there's still a lot of Scotland further north)
Originally Posted by: DEW
That situation in SE Scotland as regards to rainfall which you have just mentioned, is something which I have been pointing out for some time now, especially on the precipitation threads.
This is happening because the wet weather either keeps on going too far north for us to really get it here (in that scenario, the wet weather becomes more confined to the north and west of Scotland which was what happened back in February) or goes too far south for us to really get it here (this then results in England and Wales getting most of that rainfall which is what has been happening more recently).
In both of those scenarios, SE Scotland nearly always misses out on that rainfall and of course, we need to be getting that rainfall here just as much as what everywhere else in the country does.
This is something which has been going on for the last year or so now, and I am sick to the back teeth of always recording rainfall totals for here which are constantly either at or below our long term average. Because this has been going being going on for so long now, water shortages are clearly inevitable here during the coming summer (groundwater levels even as long ago as February were already exceptionally low in SE Scotland according to SEPA's last report on that). That was emphasized quite a lot during last summer and this situation is going to even worse last year as a result of this year's rainfall deficit coming on top of that deficit for last year which never even came close to being properly made up.
The big issue which I have is the fact that temperature and rainfall data is often far too over-generalised on this forum so that whenever temperatures are shown to be average overall across the whole country or whenever rainfall is above average across the whole country, there of often too much of an assumption made here that this is actually the case throughout the country, when this is clearly not the case as all as shown by the comparison in the rainfall totals between SE Scotland, and over the UK as a whole.
With any trend regardless of whenever we are dealing with average rainfall or temperatures or above or below average rainfall temperatures, there are always going to be deviations from that across the country and yet, I just don't believe that these deviations get pointed out often enough on this forum which then all too often, results in them being ignored altogether as though they weren't actually happening.
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02 May 2023 08:55:04
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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.