In complete contrast to what Richard from Aberdeen has reported about his drought situation not being helped in any way, today has been a thoroughly wet and miserable day here in Edinburgh and after what had been a very dry first half of this month, today has brought a few shades of what happened at this time last year when we ended up experiencing our wettest June on record.
Not long after my last report on this thread, the heavens opened yet again and now, this has brought today's rainfall totals so far today, to 8.6 mm at Edinburgh Gogarbank and 6.4 mm at the botanic gardens in Edinburgh as at 5pm this afternoon which makes today, the wettest day of this summer so far by quite a distance at both of those stations. At Edinburgh Gogarbank, 4.6 mm of that total fell in just one single hour between 2pm and 3pm.
The Sun did manage to make the odd appearance in between those downpours but as at 5pm this afternoon, the rather abysmal total of just 12 minutes of sunshine have been recorded for the whole of today so far at Edinburgh Gogarbank.
Today's maximum temperatures have been very disappointing for the time of year having come out at 14.2ºC at Edinburgh Gogarbank, 15ºC at Edinburgh Airport and 15.9ºC at the botanic gardens in Edinburgh.
The skies are now brightening up to the south and west, and the radar maps appear to show that the last of the rain is now finally moving our of the way. Just a short while ago as well, the wind started to pick up a bit and the temperatures have dropped a bit over the last few hours.
This means that the temperature at 5pm this evening was 11.1ºC at Edinburgh Gogarbank, 11ºC at Edinburgh Airport and 11.2ºC at the botanic gardens in Edinburgh, so it's not exactly "Flaming June" in this part of the world just now.
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.