June 2016 saw average overall rain for Scotland however some parts were wetter than average whilst others dryer.
England however saw 150% average but again with the wettest and driest parts being apart... Parts of southeast England had their wettest June on record that year.
https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/climate/uk/summaries/2016/june
Interestingly that June started fine like this year but went downhill after the first week as a low became trapped over England due to high pressure to the N.E.W.S of the UK.... Again much like this year.
Also interesting is around the 23 heavy thunderstorms broke out over the southern England from a plume.. Well going into next week the weather is forecasted to be more plume like down here with thunderstorms in the forecast
2016 was a big year for me and not just for footballing reasons (those of you who know which Scottish football team I support will no doubt know exactly what I'm talking about here) as that was also the same year in which I first joined the TWO forum (as you will have seen from the last part of my user name) and if my memory serves me right, I think that it was even around this time during that year when I joined this forum.
Becoming a regular contributor to this forum was something which took a bit of time for me to establish but even back then, I was already starting to collect data for my local area which I would later use in those reports which I submit to this forum these days.
The data which I collected back then shows that we had around average rainfall during all three summer months during that year with the entire summer having average rainfall as a result. I can also remember the NE of Scotland being wetter than average back then both during June 2016, and also during the whole of the summer of 2016. From my memories alone though, I have no recollection of anywhere being drier than average at that time.
However, data never lies and it is from the actual data that the actual evidence of what really happened at that time comes from. Because of that, I then checked the rainfall anomaly maps for that time on the Met Office website based on the 1981-2010 averages. I first looked at the maps for June 2016 and discovered that there was indeed, parts of Scotland which were drier than average during that period.
Of course, this left the possibility that I could have got what was happening in June 2016 mixed up with what happened during that entire summer and so, I then looked at the same maps for that whole summer. What I then discovered is that once again, there was parts of Scotland which had a drier than average summer during that year.
From that, this just shows how actual memories can become blurred and distorted very quickly and I would probably say from that, that because I just wasn't remembering the fact that some places were actually drier than average at that time, it was getting stuck in my mind that Scotland as a whole had to be wetter than average overall at that time as a result. Now that I have checked those Met Office reports for that period though, I now know that this wasn't actually the case.
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15 June 2019 18:55:10
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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.