Once again, we have had yet another heavy shower of rain during this afternoon and yet, with no further additions to today's official rainfall totals so far as the nearby stations are just not picking up on all of the rain which is falling in this area. How that has happened is completely beyond me though as I have a clear view from my windows towards the exact vicinity of where the botanic gardens in Edinburgh are located and it seems clear to me that this very heavy shower of rain which we had during this afternoon was also falling just as heavily over that part of the city at that time. That tells me that there should at least have been something recorded from that, at that particular station.
Whilst those showers have been around, there has clearly been a lot of cloud and in the end, a total of just 42 minutes of sunshine was recorded for today in the end at Edinburgh Gogarbank. Once again, this is slightly better than what we had yesterday but we are still going to need to be doing a lot better than that over the last four days of this month if this month is going to end up going down as anything else, other than a duller than average month overall. As things stand, at a total of at least 9.1 hours of sunshine are still needed over those four days in order for this month to go down as being sunnier than average and although this is still possible, time is now fast running out for that to happen.
Today's maximum temperature was 5.5°C at Edinburgh Gogarbank, 6°C at Edinburgh Gogarbank and 6.0°C at the botanic gardens in Edinburgh which makes today, the coldest day of both this month and this autumn so far at all three of my local stations.
Meanwhile, the temperature at 4pm this afternoon was 4.9°C at Edinburgh Gogarbank, 5°C at Edinburgh Airport and 5.6°C at the botanic gardens in Edinburgh.
EDIT
The missing data for the botanic gardens in Edinburgh has now come through for that hour where I noticed that heavy shower of rain over that area. This shows that 0.4 mm of rain was indeed, recorded for there during that hour and so, total's rainfall totals so far as at 4pm this afternoon was 0.2 mm at Edinburgh Gogarbank and 0.8 mm at the botanic gardens in Edinburgh.
Edited by user
27 November 2018 16:55:35
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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.