It's barely stopped raining since late yesterday evening IMBY

I’m wondering where you’re all getting your rain from?  My weather app suggests it’s raining here now but it isn’t, although we do now have light cloud cover after a sunny start to the morning.  

All the forecasts had been so wrong lately and not sure how we will get hot weekend if the clouds persist.  It now cast situation so only way to know is to look outside.  

Mine's coming from the sky

Just thinking about the situation up on the moors. Obviously this rain will help dampen down any remaining smouldering areas but it will need quite a prolonged wet spell to really soak into the peat and quell any deep seated hot-spots.

One of those dilemmas. I want some rain to help water the gardens, top the reservoirs up and put the fires out, but not ruin the rest of the summer. Rain after dry spells in this country has a habit of not knowing when to stop.

The last measurable rain here(more than 0.7mm) was on 30th May. That was till this morning of course, 7.8mm so far today.

I bought a new lawnmower on 6th June, i`ve not unpacked it from it`s box yet, all the lawns around here are brown and dead looking.

However, there are no signs of that happening yet. The Sun has broken though as has been the norm for this month and all of the rain which is shown on the radar looks to be to a long way away and much too far to the south for me to believe that we will actually see any of that today.

Therefore, the drought in this part of the world goes on and after that, we are not likely have another chance of getting any rain until Monday according to the latest forecasts.

Of course yesterday's & today's rain is just a showety outbreak within a prolonged dry spell. Assuming we get the warm, dry and sunny weekend that has been forecast by Sunday evening it will look like nothing has happened. Beyond that there isn't any sign in the reliable timeframe at least of a pattern change to zonal westerlies, dartboard lows, sitting LPs that last for days. It jusrt seems to me to be a rather 'messier' picture, some warmth & sun around but a fair few showers as well.

perhaps, our drought might be about to come to an end after all.

2.8mm here since 9.30 last night.

First rain since 19 June

Nothing last few hours and a lot brighter.

http://edo.jrc.ec.europa.eu/edov2/php/index.php?id=1111 

A truly rare treat. Will we see its like again?

I can confirm that it is now raining here in Edinburgh, and that is something which I haven't been able to say for a very long time (at least not since 20 June). All that is left is to see what totals are recorded at Edinburgh Gogarbank and the botanic gardens in Edinburgh as a result of that, but I think I can safely now that the drought is over here in Edinburgh.

Hopefully though, this doesn't end up being it for our summer as well.

It has been raining here in Edinburgh for a while, but the worst of this weather looks as though it is missing us to the east and south. As a result of that, just 0.2 mm of rain has been recorded from that so far at Edinburgh Gogarbank as at 2pm this afternoon with nothing at all at the botanic gardens in Edinburgh.

Since we need more than 0.2 mm of rain on any given day to officially end a drought, this means that our drought is technically speaking, not over yet at either of those two stations.

I came out of Asda and it had been raining, it had even left little puddles and a dry patch where my car had been parked. Had to have a swipe of my windscreen wipers as well - I haven’t done that since 30th May.  So I drove the 4 miles back home.  Dry as a bone!  

Although, it is sunny and it’s possible we could have had a light shower and it’s dried up, but I was only out for an hour so it would have been nothing measurable. 

In yet another twist to the tale, a further 0.2 mm was recorded during the last hour from that earlier shower at Edinburgh Gogarbank. That now takes today's total there to 0.4 mm which is just enough to officially end the drought there and no more, but not enough to make today an actual official rain day there.

As for the botanic gardens in Edinburgh, a total of 0.2 mm of rain was recorded there as at 2pm this afternoon according to both weathercast.co.uk and SEPA which is is not enough to technically end the drought at that particular station.

This means that as things stand just now, the drought is officially over at Edinburgh Gogarbank now, but not at the botanic gardens in Edinburgh according to weathercast.co.uk.

To make things more complicated though, the information from SEPA is still showing a total of just 0.2 mm for Edinburgh Gogarbank which means that the drought at Edinburgh Gogarbank is officially over according to weathercast.co.uk, but not according to SEPA.

I guess then, that we will need a bit more time and data to clarify that further.

No further change to the rainfall totals here in Edinburgh in the last hour and now, any further showers which are developing nearby are now dissipating as they reach here which means that we are unlikely to see any more additions to today's rainfall totals for the rest of today as long as that continues.

Despite the disagreement between weathercast.co.uk and SEPA over the rainfall totals at Edinburgh Gogarbank, I will go by the weathercast site as I normally do and report that a total of 0.4 mm has been recorded for today so far at Edinburgh Gogarbank, along with 0.2 mm at the botanic gardens in Edinburgh.

This means that whilst the drought is officially over at Edinburgh Gogarbank, that is not the case at the botanic gardens in Edinburgh and the fact that the drought has not yet officially ended at one of my local stations means that as far as Edinburgh as a whole is concerned, the drought is not yet over.

We are now in day 23 of that drought and so now as a result of what I have mentioned above, that now looks set to go on for at least another day. In any case, these pitifully small amounts of rain are nowhere near enough for what those parched grass areas and gardens actually need and so on this basis, my decision to not declare the drought as being over here in Edinburgh is probably the correct one as far as I'm concerned.

So my dry period is over - nice record though, going to be a while before its broken

The drought is over but one shower isn't going to replenish the landscape.

We’re still bone dry but there are some very black clouds visible and heading this way to my West from the Pennines!  A nice thunder storm after dark would end my drought nicely!