Yet another dire, damp, drizzly, grey day that was supposed to be dry
Not since 1985 has such an awful summer gone on to be followed by such an awful September.
It would, however, be a mistake to say this month had been as bad as the summer. It's been far worse. No remotely pleasant weather at all bar the first two days. Just disgusting, soul destroying rubbish day-in-day-out from one of the most horrible and depressingly boring months of all time.
It's been absolutely shocking. Not a single dry day the past week and only one day hitting 14C. Still waiting for a sub-8C minimum which is unbelievable given that there have been several days of northerlies. Does not bode well for the winter at all. It's beyond a joke.
13/17 days have had minima between 8.2C and 9.8C. It's taking the tedium of the past decade to a whole new level
If you're not happy with today's weather in your area, you're certainly not going to be happy with the offering which the latest BBC forecast has in store for you during tomorrow, which is for a longer spell of rain and very cool temperatures with a bit of that extending down towards here in Edinburgh as well, especially later on. For here, we still have a few showers dotted around which are being blown straight in off the North Sea in by a cool NE wind, That is despite the fact that today was supposed to be dry here as well.
This was after all, supposed to be the weekend where a ridge of high pressure would build in from the west and cut off those northerlies which have resulted from those 'if only it were winter' synoptics which we have seen over the last few days. Luckily, we have just had the one shower of rain here and although that was quite heavy at one point, it was barely enough to wet the ground and not enough to be picked up by either the botanic Gardens in Edinburgh or Edinburgh Gogarbank as any sort of measurable rainfall.
However, it looks as though it might well only be a matter of time before we get at least one more heavy shower and if that ends up being detected by the weather station at the botanic Gardens in Edinburgh as measurable rainfall, this will then be the ninth rain day in a row which we have had and although we're not getting the really high rainfall totals during this month which a number of other members are reporting on this forum, the fact that we have now gone so long without a completely dry day is starting to get a bit ridiculous now.
On top of that, sunshine totals continue to be poor as well. What sunshine we are getting is coming later on during the day and whilst the fact that it getting darker at nights is depressing enough especially with the Autumn Equinox coming up next Friday which then leads us into the nights being longer than the days after that, the fact that I am constantly having to wake up to yet another permacast scenario every day certainly doesn't help in that regard.
Furthermore, September has had a good record in recent years of being a decent month to such an extent that it has often been dubbed as an extension to our summer, so the fact that this hasn't happened this year leads me to wonder when on Earth, we are actually going to get what we would regard as a 'decent' month of weather, when we can't even get that during what has traditionally been one of the best months of recent years.
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17 September 2017 17:04:04
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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.