We have now entered into the final month of the meteorological autumn and so far in this part of the world, this autumn has been slightly wetter than average overall.

Although October 2024 was slightly wetter than average here though, it wasn't excessively wet given that October is our wettest month of the year on average anyway according to the 1991-2020 averages and we are now into a much drier spell of weather which is largely dominated by high pressure, a pattern which we could have done with seeing during the summer when we were actually looking for that to deliver some decent summer weather to these parts.

The outlook according to the latest model output is also looking very dry, so I'm not expecting very much activity on this thread, at least during the first part of this month.

I have created this thread just now in case anyone has anything to report on here in the meantime although I will be very surprised if that is actually the case for the time being at least.

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The latest rainfall data for Edinburgh Gogarbank is as follows:

Data For Recent Days

Total since 9 am GMT (09:00 UTC) yesterday morning: 1.8 mm (as at 7:00 am GMT (07:00 UTC) this morning on Saturday 2 November 2024)

Monthly Data

Total for this month so far: 1.8 mm (2.4% of 1991-2020 November average)
Number of rain days during this month: 1 (7.8% of 1991-2020 November average)
Number of dry days during this month: 0

Seasonal Data

Total for this autumn so far: 149.0 mm (70.5% of 1991-2020 autumn average)
Number of rain days during this autumn: 26 (71.4% of 1991-2020 autumn average)
Number of dry days during this autumn: 27

Annual Data

Total for this year so far: 792.8 mm (101.1% of 1991-2020 annual average)
Number of rain days during this year: 126 (91.7% of 1991-2020 annual average)
Number of dry days during this year: 116

More rain has now fallen during this year than the 1991-2020 annual average and so regardless of what happens during the
rest of this year, this year will now go down as being wetter than average in terms of the actual rainfall amounts.

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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Just 4.8mm to 18:00 on the 14th here.

Remarkably dry for November, though you wouldn't think it with how damp everything still is. It shows how low the evaporation rates are at this time of year. If this was May or June, it would be more or less bone dry by now.

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Even less here. 1.5mm and much of that from fog deposits. As you say though, drying is very poor and the ground here is soaking wet despite no rain for weeks. 

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