Surprised no yellow warning for rain in SE for this evening

20mm and counting but not really worthy of a warning as it's been rather dry for a while. If everything was still waterlogged like at the beginning of the month then yes perhaps a warning might have been warranted.

A remarkable 27.6mm of rain yesterday here, with probably a bit more to come today. It *was* (emphasis on *was*) looking like a drier than average month here, but that's gone out the window now!

Not only have the models handled temperatures poorly, it seems they can't handle rainfall properly either - although UKV did up the intensity at the last minute, GFS stuck with less than 10mm throughout.

EDIT: That was the wettest day here since the 3rd November 2022, which saw 42mm fall.
 

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5.7mm yesterday
29.4mm so far today - we'd had 25mm by 8am!

This month: 82.8 mm
This year: 316.5 mm

The 50 year average for April in this neck of the woods is about 44mm.

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15mm today, 22mm in the last 24 hours

Our average month has turned into a wet one in a day really - 76.8mm MTD, 353.8mm YTD

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28.9mm yesterday evening and 11.6mm in the early hours today -total 40.5mm

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107mm here. Another 3 figure month!

32mm here from the rain event last night and this morning.  Wettest day since Storm Babet (20th October, 2023) which saw 45mm here.
April total now up to 75mm.  Wettest April here for 6 years currently.

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Horrible here too - but clear now.

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78.6mm

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105.0mm mtd, 469.0mm ytd

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The latest rainfall data for Edinburgh Gogarbank is as follows:

Monthly Data

Final Total for April 2024: 111.2 mm (242.4% of 1991-2020 April average)
Number of rain days during April 2024: 13 (141.2% of 1991-2020 April average)
Number of dry days during April 2024: 12

April 2024 was actually a month of two halves with the second first half of the month being exceptionally wet, and then with the second half the month being quite a lot drier.

In the end, April 2024 was an exceptionally wet month in terms of both of the actual rainfall amounts and the number of official rain days with more than twice our annual 1991-2020 April average rainfall although most of that actually fell during the first half of the month.

Seasonal Data

Total for this spring so far: 212.4 mm (143.0% of 1991-2020 spring average)
Number of rain days during this spring so far: 26 (86.0% of 1991-2020 spring average)
Number of dry days during this spring so far: 22

Annual Data

Total for this year so far: 338.6 mm (43.2% of 1991-2020 annual average)
Number of rain days during this year so far: 53 (38.6% of 1991-2020 annual average)
Number of dry days during this year so far: 39

Note

This data has been obtained from https://www.ogimet.com  in raw BUFR format, and then converted into a more readable form by my own python script.


 

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Finished April with 75mm here (177% average).   Wettest April for 6 years.    The 28th was the second wettest April day here in the last 42 years, with 32mm.

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It's just been confirmed by the Met Office that Edinburgh has just had its second wettest April on record. In addition to that, the UK as a whole has just had its 6th wettest April on record according to data which date all the way back to 1836 with Scotland experiencing its fourth wettest April on record. 
 

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