Given below, are the final September statistics for the botanic gardens in Edinburgh from all of the data which I have available which are:
Temperature (°C):
Lowest Min.: 2.9 (on 23/9)
Highest Min.: 14.5 (on 18/9)
Mean Min.: 8.3
Min. Anomaly: -1.1
Lowest Max.: 12.5 (on 29/9)
Highest Max.: 21.8 (on 2/9)
Mean Max.: 16.5
Max. Anomaly: -0.5
Average Temp.: 12.2
Temp. Anomaly: -0.8
Rainfall (mm):
Total For Month: 49.4 (77.6% of 1981-2010 average)
Wettest Day 9.8 (on 19/9)
Rain Days: 12 (117.6% of 1981-2010 average)
Dry Days: 12
Longest Dry Spell: 2 days (on 4 separate occasions)
Highest Number of Days without a single dry day: 4 days (9/9 to 12/9 and 18/9 to 21/9)
Sunshine Totals (hrs):
Total for month: 138.1 (107.2% of 1981-2010 average)
Sunniest Day: 10.7 (on 12/9)
Sunless Days: 1
Conclusion:
Here, it was also a cooler than average month. It was also wetter than average in terms of the number of official rain days, but drier than average in terms of the actual rainfall amounts. This means that when you balance everything out, Edinburgh as a whole comes out as being wetter than average in terms of the number of official rain days, but drier than average in terms of the actual rainfall amounts.
Unlike at Edinburgh Gogarbank though, the botanic gardens in Edinburgh were slightly sunnier than average during September. This means that when everything is balanced out, the overall sunshine totals across Edinburgh as a whole, comes out at around average.
We can see from above that the botanic gardens in Edinburgh were sunnier and drier than Edinburgh Gogarbank overall during September. September was largely a westerly dominated and Atlantic driven month which would have resulted in the botanic gardens in Edinburgh being slightly more sheltered from those winds than Edinburgh Gogarbank due to its closer proximity to the east coast.
Furthermore, the relatively close proximity of high pressure to the south weakened most Atlantic weather systems which were coming through. This had the effect of reducing the actual rainfall amounts, although this had much less of an effect on the number of days where it actually rained. When all of that is taken into consideration, the above results are in line with what I would have expected to see under these circumstances.
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.