Here in Edinburgh, we have had barely any rain at all over the last week and we haven't had anything like the amount of rain which other parts of the UK have been getting, especially down south and it seems though we have still never managed to shake off that ongoing trend from this time last year where any wet spells end up just being very brief with the next significant dry spell always being just around the corner.
The model output does indicate that there could be further downpours for the southerners in the coming days, although even these aren't likely to be quite as bad as what has being going on down there recently. For here though, the model output continues to show virtually nothing for us in terms of rainfall and I'm struggling at the moment to see just where our next significant rainfall is actually going to come from.
This month did start off on a wet note here, but it is now looking increasingly likely that we will actually end up with no more than average rainfall here and I wouldn't even be surprised if we actually came out slightly drier than average in the end overall during this month with the way that this is going.
As far as the temperatures are concerned, this has been a cold month here overall, and we still haven't yet had a single day during this month where our daytime maximum temperatures have been above average for this time of the year. However, recent days haven't been as cold as what they have been lately, so everything appears to be slowly heading in the right direction there.
As far as sunshine is concerned, this has been a very dull month so far with just the one really sunny day within it. Even now, that continues to remain the case. However, we have started to get a little more in the way of sunshine during recent days than what we were getting beforehand, so even that is at least a small step in the right direction.
When you add all of that together, this might actually end up being not such a bad summer here after all as what it had looked at one point in time, as it would be. As you may well have guessed, this is therefore another gloat from me rather than a moan.
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.