61.6mm

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114mm at Swanston, south Edinburgh up to 0900 this morning which is 225% of normal

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Heavy fall of sleet yesterday gva 15.0 ml.

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Up to 89mm here. 

61.8mm

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62.9mm

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The latest rainfall data for Edinburgh Gogarbank is as follows:

Data For Recent Days

Total since 10am BST (09:00 UTC) this morning: 1.6 mm as at 7:00 pm BST (18:00 UTC) this evening on Sunday 21 April 2024.

Monthly Data

Total for this month so far: 110.2 mm (240.2% of 1991-2020 April average).
Number of rain days during this month so far: 13 (141.2% of 1991-2020 April average).
Number of dry days during this month so far: 5

Seasonal Data

Total for this spring so far: 211.4 mm (142.3% of 1991-2020 spring average)
Number of rain days during this spring so far: 26 (86.0% of 1991-2020 spring average).
Number of dry days during this spring so far: 14

This means that only at least another 5 rain days now need to be recorded between now and the end of next month in order for this spring to go down as being wetter than average in terms of the number of rain days.

Annual Data

Total for this year so far: 337.6 mm (43.0% of 1991-2020 annual average).
Number of rain days during this year so far: 53 (38.6% of 1991-2020 annual average).
Number of dry days during this year so far: 31

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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It's noticable how rapidly the ground has dried round here due to the constant strong breeze, low dew points and plants and trees starting to draw it from the ground. It won't be long before us gardeners in the S.E will be hoping for rain and I didn't think I would be saying that till June two week ago!

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It's noticable how rapidly the ground has dried round here due to the constant strong breeze, low dew points and plants and trees starting to draw it from the ground. It won't be long before us gardeners in the S.E will be hoping for rain and I didn't think I would be saying that till June two week ago!

Add the sun onto that. As I pointed out to the folks at the wolf centre on Saturday, it's now as strong as it is at the back end of August, so has a lot of drying power. (It also effortlessly heats the upstairs of my house into the low 20s, despite it only being 12C at most yesterday outside!)

The ground at the wolf centre (a few miles SW of Reading, in the hills) went from a bit muddy to dry in the space of a week.

It's been a dry month so far here, anyway. 22mm of rain so far (of which 7mm came in a very localised storm), which is only 65% of the average amount we should have had at this point in April.

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65.8mm

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60.2mm MTD.

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96mm here so far. Got three figures in sight!

45.6mm

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Unfortunately April marks the return of 100mm+ months around here, after a very close respite in March. The current total stands at 101.4mm to the end of the 26th, with the vast majority of that falling in the first half.

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Here too with a ridiculous 108.2mm so far this month.

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Surprised no yellow warning for rain in SE for this evening

Surprised no yellow warning for rain in SE for this evening

20mm and counting but not really worthy of a warning as it's been rather dry for a while. If everything was still waterlogged like at the beginning of the month then yes perhaps a warning might have been warranted.

A remarkable 27.6mm of rain yesterday here, with probably a bit more to come today. It *was* (emphasis on *was*) looking like a drier than average month here, but that's gone out the window now!

Not only have the models handled temperatures poorly, it seems they can't handle rainfall properly either - although UKV did up the intensity at the last minute, GFS stuck with less than 10mm throughout.

EDIT: That was the wettest day here since the 3rd November 2022, which saw 42mm fall.
 

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5.7mm yesterday
29.4mm so far today - we'd had 25mm by 8am!

This month: 82.8 mm
This year: 316.5 mm

The 50 year average for April in this neck of the woods is about 44mm.

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15mm today, 22mm in the last 24 hours

Our average month has turned into a wet one in a day really - 76.8mm MTD, 353.8mm YTD

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