When I was out and about earlier on, it started raining and after a while, I got rather wet and the streets were soaking. After I got home, I could clearly see that it was raining fairly heavily although the rain has been on and off for much of the day.
This evening was then a bit drier but then during tonight, there has been a little bit of rain once again although not to the same extent as what I witnessed earlier on. Yet despite all of that, not a single weather station in my area has recorded any actual rainfall for today and so, the figure for that remains resolutely at 0.0 mm for today which according to that, made today a completely dry day technically speaking.
Yet from what I saw and experienced, there is no way on this Earth that this particular day deserved to go down as being completely "dry" at all three of my local stations.
Of course, I could easily moan about the fact that it was raining. That is what most people would probably do and this the moaning thread after all. However, that is not what I am moaning about here. What I am moaning about is the fact that the readings from these weather stations have just not been representative in any way, of the actual weather which we have experienced and it really P*#SES me off when that happens because if it is raining then to me, there should be some amount of actual recorded rainfall there for me to actually report, other the whole concept of actually measuring rainfall just becomes a complete waste of time in my book.
Furthermore, this also raises the question of just exactly what does it take for a weather station to actually report any recorded rainfall? I am raising that question because I know that there are some members of this forum who actually run their own weather stations and collect their own data from that, so it would be nice to get some answers from these people. Furthermore, I would like to know it is even possible for this day to even go down as being completely "dry" given what I have experienced on this day.
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01 April 2019 23:26:42
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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.