Only you would complain that rainy days haven't been wet enough. It's like your strange obsession with moaning that nights haven't been cold enough - so what? Who actively desires cold nights? Most people want the opposite.
Originally Posted by: LeedsLad123
On this occasion though, I actually agree with Richard on this one.
During the course of this month, it has been wetter than average in terms of the number of official rain days at both Edinburgh Gogarbank and the botanic gardens in Edinburgh.
In terms of the actual rainfall amounts though, I have known for quite a while that this month would be drier than average at the botanic gardens in Edinburgh since the total for there is well short of the 1981-2010 average for that station.
For Edinburgh Gogarbank though, we have now been waiting for quite a while to get that final 0.3 mm which is still needed to take us over the 1981-2010 average there, for that station. At the very least, I would have expected that to have happened by now. Yet, the outlook for both today and tomorrow is now so dry that even this is now asking for too much.
To me, some real proper rainfall is what is needed to get us out of this complete borefest which we have had to endure for quite a while in these parts and until I start seeing some above average monthly totals (something which has not now happened since April), that is never going to happen. The reason why this is the the case is because unless I can see it as being wetter than average in terms of the actual rainfall amounts, I cannot view this month as being unsettled in any way. Furthermore, the fact that this is the case despite it being wetter than average in terms of the number of official rain days means that we are clearly not getting enough rain on those rainy days in terms of what the particular weather pattern which we are experiencing, would deserve to be seeing (to me, it's not about actually wanting it to rain and is instead, about wanting the actual pattern to be fair in terms of what the number of official rain days is suggesting).
So for both of these stations, this month now looks set to go down being wetter than average in terms of the number of official rain days, but drier than average yet again in terms of the actual rainfall amounts and the bottom line here, is that absolutely nothing is happening here to suggest that we have even started to make up the rainfall deficit which has built up from those late spring and summer droughts, and this also confirms that this has to be the most boring period of weather which I have ever endured as a result.
For the record, the current monthly totals are 57.8 mm at Edinburgh Gogarbank and 48.8 mm at the botanic gardens in Edinburgh.
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29 September 2018 12:58:35
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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.