So Edinburgh, the Lothian and Fife area has just had the most intense and long lasting storm for many years.
Starting with small cells to the south and east of the city around 7 pm on Tuesday a large elongated area of activity stretching at times from Peebles/Moffat all the way north to Orkney has raged all night for 11 hours so far. Loud thunder still rumbles over West Lothian as I type at 0600 Wednesday.
48 mm of rain has fallen in 24 hrs from 0100 to 0100 this morning at Gogarbank though some of this may be from the previous night's storms.
From 2200 to 0600 lightning has been continuous and frequently at rates of every second.
What has fascinated me is the instant and relentless propogation of cells around Biggar, Moffat, Peebles and Innerleithan which have fed and are still feeding the main storm area. I'm exhausted!
The main difference now is that the core of the storms has now moved north and west into Tayside and parts of Aberdeenshire with some moderate rain getting into the city of Aberdeen itself. As a result, I won't be surprised if Richard from Aberdeen comes on here before too long to rant about his own part of the world missing out on that action, although even that is a situation which could well change before too long with the way that this is going.
What is weird though is that as the thunderstorms continue to rumble away in the distance and refuse to go away altogether, we now have some hazy sunshine which has just broke through.
As for rainfall, I can report that the highest rainfall totals during a single hour as at 6am this morning were 18.4 mm at Edinburgh Gogarbank and an incredible 25.2 mm at the botanic gardens in Edinburgh with both of those totals being recorded between 11pm last night and midnight.
Meanwhile as at 6am this morning, an incredible 52.4 mm of rain has now been recorded at Edinburgh Gogarbank since 10am (09:00 UTC) this morning, along with 46.2 mm at the botanic gardens in Edinburgh. That now makes the current official observation day, the wettest day of this year so far at both of those stations.
This means that there has now been more rain during this month at both of those stations than the respective 1981-2010 August average for each of those stations, so this month will now go down as being wetter than average overall at both of those stations in terms of the actual rainfall amounts, regardless of what happens between now and the end of this month.
This also means that there has now been more rain during this summer at both of those stations than the respective 1981-2010 summer average for each of those stations, so this summer will now go down as being wetter than average overall at both of those stations in terms of the actual rainfall amounts regardless of what happens between now and the end of this month.
However, the fact that all of this has now happened so quickly is mainly down to these storms, which just goes to show how much this can massively impact the overall rainfall patterns.
EDIT:
Doctormog stepped in before I had a chance to post all of this so perhaps, we won't get any complaints from Richard after all.
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12 August 2020 05:53:51
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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.