I can't recall a February as wet as this around here. It has been almost relentless and an extended dry period would be welcome.
Normally, your location down in Manchester would be wetter on average anyway, than here in Edinburgh (we at least have a chance to see what it's like there from your daily time lapse videos on YouTube). However, we have been in exactly the same boat here as well just recently. I know that we were all desperate for rain at around this time last year as we were still at that time, in an extended drier period which left a lot of concerned about possible hose pipe bans during last summer.
However, it had already turned much wetter here by that summer which itself, ended up being exceptionally wet in this part of the world with localised flooding even here in parts of Edinburgh. Then last autumn wasn't as wet here as what the summer was, or as wet as it was in other parts of the UK. However, that was still a wetter than average autumn here and with this winter's rainfall totals running at just above average going into this month, we have never really had a chance to properly dry out after last year's exceptionally wet summer.
Then of course, came the events of this month which for here, is also turning out to be wetter than anything which I can ever remember, to the point where all of this almost incessant rainfall which we are getting just now, is getting a bit beyond a joke now, especially with all of the issues which this is now causing with flooding in various parts of the UK. It seems as though every time that I'm looking at the latest rainfall totals on SEPA, there is always a certain amount to add to those totals for this part of the world whereas that isn't normally the case here.
Looking back at the data, every single day since 8th February 2020 has been an official rain day at Edinburgh Gogarbank with every day since then except for St. Valentine's Day, also being an official rain day at the botanic gardens in Edinburgh. Furthermore, there has only been three completely dry days during this entire month at both of those stations with all of those coming in quick succession at the very beginning of this month. Furthermore, we haven't had a single completely dry day at either of those stations since 6th February 2020.
That makes today, our 17th day in a row which has failed to stay completely dry at either of those stations since we have already had a bit of rain during the early hours of this morning. This means that if we had the same number of days in a row which HAD been completely dry, we would now have gone into a technical absolute drought as a result. That in turn should show just how wet it's been here recently and because of that, just about everywhere around me is absolutely soaking, muddy and waterlogged so I would say that a much drier spell is probably very much needed now, in order for everything to dry out a bit and allow those flood affected areas a chance to recover from that, to at least some extent.
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.