Here in Edinburgh, we've just had a thoroughly wet and miserable spring and so, it's a great relief to finally have that out of the way.
Now, we are into another brand new month and the start of the summer of 2024 and it wouldn't exactly be difficult for this month to end up being much drier than the last three months here, and especially drier than last month.
Part of the definition of a "decent" summer to most people is that it should be drier than average and so, the people will not want to be seeing this thread and the subsequent threads for July and August being too busy because if they are, that is usually because there has been a lot of rain.
Over the last couple of days, it has dried up a bit here and for the next few days, it should be reasonable dry with high pressure close to us, but out to our west.
In order to actually get some decent weather, we really need that high pressure to be sitting further east and either right over the country or just to our east.
Sadly though, the latest model output then has that high pressure retreating back westwards and northwards, thus allowing our weather to become more changeable once again.
That doesn't necessarily mean that we won't have a decent summer though or that this will be an unsettled and wet month overall although it's going to take quite a massive shift in our weather patterns for this month to end up being nothing like as wet as it has been here.
Regardless of how all of that actually pans out though, this is the very place for reporting those all important rainfall totals throughout the course of this month.
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.