This hellhole of a 'summer' just seems to be going from bad to worse now. Already this summer, we have had our wettest June on record. Somehow, we managed to escape with just average rainfall during July although I have no idea as to how we managed that with such an unsettled weather pattern. However, July was still a miserable month for other reasons as it was both colder than average (leaving June as our only warmer than average month during this summer) and along with June, it was also duller than average.
In terms of rainfall, it is already looking as though July will probably now be the best month of the summer in that regard, as the rainfall rates appear to have stepped up a gear once again over the last few days. On Tuesday, we had heavy rain in the early part of the morning with showers later on which got much heavier by the evening. Wednesday then brought a miserably wet afternoon after a very rare bright and sunny start to the day. Now today, we have had some torrential downpours during large parts of this morning as we now once again, have low pressure centred more or less right on top of us, which has been an all too familiar scenario during this summer.
Just now, it's not too bad although it is still raining a bit, and I will expect there to be a risk of further torrential downpours during the rest of the day. Temperatures were around average yesterday at around 19C, but the outlook is much cooler once again as this low pressure which is sitting over the top of us just now, pulls away and drags in that cooler NW airflow. Furthermore, we are likely to still have showers during tomorrow and Saturday as well. At the moment, Sunday isn't looking quite so bad but by Monday, we are back to square one again with low pressure sitting more or less right on top of us.
That doesn't fill me with much hope for the very short time which is left of this summer and all I say to that now is, 'roll on winter'.
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.