Be interesting to see if it gets picked up at the rainfall gauges, it looks v bad in West Edinburgh according to the pictures on the evening news site. Sometimes the rain is so concentrated it falls between the gauge locations. I know a couple of weeks ago I got caught in torrential rain just south of the bypass - road flooding, water running down the pentlands etc - total at gogarbank for the six-hour period? 1mm.
EDIT: Blimey jings! 38mm in the last hour at Murrayburn, 55mm in the last 2. Gogarbank with 28mm for the last 2 hours.
It has honestly only been a bit drizzly here near Cameron Toll this afternoon as well.
https://apps.sepa.org.uk/rainfall
From weathercast.co.uk, I recorded a maximum of 12.8 mm of rain on a single hour at Edinburgh Gogarbank and this also takes today's total for there so far to an astonishing 36.5 mm as at 3pm this afternoon.
This is roughly half of this month's entire 1981-2010 average June rainfall for that particular station which has fallen just within this single day so far and that's only up until 3pm this afternoon.
It would be interesting to go all the back to see what the all time record is for our highest ever daily rainfall total here in Edinburgh but since I first joined this forum back in 2016, that is the highest daily total which I can remember ever reporting here on this forum since then.
What is even more bizzare though is that according to the same sources at weathercast.co.uk, a total of just 12.8 mm was recorded at the botanic gardens in Edinburgh which is the nearest station to where I live, for today so far as at 3pm this afternoon and that isn't even enough to make today the wettest day of this summer so far at that station.
Given how intense those downpours have been though, I believe that the totals for there should be much higher than what has been reported so far. Given that these are very localised events, it may well be that the rain just wasn't as heavy at that particular station as it was where I live.
However, it may also be that not all of today's total has been accounted for yet and if that is the case, the total as at 4pm this afternoon might be higher at that particular station as a result. Furthermore, it has also started raining yet since I first started this reply, though not as intensely this time and without any thunder or lightning this time. That will however, add even more to those rainfall totals for today and it is now possible that this month's total at Edinburgh Gogarbank will now end up going over 100 mm by the end of this month as a result, for the first time since that wettest June on record back in 2017.
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24 June 2019 15:10:37
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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.