It clearly states 0.4mm so I'm not sure where you are getting the rounded to nearest 1mm as that is not rounded.
And it also says 0.6mm for Edinburgh gogarbank - remember this is metoffice data
Sorry, I was looking in the wrong place. These data lists can be confusing at first because there are actually two places on it where rainfall is mentioned. I was looking towards the right-hand side of this list, and only noticing where it refers to rainfall there. I had obviously therefore, mixed that up with the actual rainfall totals which are shown much further to the left, and noticed that what I was actually referring to here was the percentage of the monthly average, as rounded to the nearest 1% (hence, that would be shown as 1% for Edinburgh Gogarbank).
By looking in the proper place, I did indeed, notice that the actual total for Edinburgh Gogarbank is actually shown as 0.6 mm which as you have said, is the official Met Office figure for that. As to where that actually comes from, I will assume that the Met Office takes this from the SYNOP data, along with the other data for temperature and everything else.
On that note, I then looked up the SYNOP data for Edinburgh Gogarbank from a site at meteomanz.com (ogimet.com also has that info) and from that, I noticed that the rainfall total for Edinburgh Gogarbank does indeed, show up as 0.6 mm for this month. The data for SEPA is different because it just uses the data from its own set of rain gauges as that data comes through.
On a more professional note, I should really be using official Met Office data on these reports but then, I am a bit of a Scottish Nationalist and since SEPA is an official agency of the Scottish Government which then uses that data in all of their various reports as a result, that is why I go by the SEPA data on these threads when I am reporting the various totals for both Edinburgh Gogarbank and the botanic gardens in Edinburgh.
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26 April 2020 14:11:32
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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.