We're not expecting much in the way of rainfall for now, but the outlook is a little bit more unsettled as we go further into this month and since it is now winter, I am hoping that at least some of this precipitation will fall as snow at some point in time.

Whatever happens though, this is the very place to post those all important totals for this month.

 

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0.3 mm  Yesterday Probably from condensation,

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Rainfall Data Since 9am (09:00 UTC) Yesterday Morning
	Edinburgh Gogarbank	Edinburgh Botanic Gardens
Total Amount (mm)	13.6	10.4
Rainfall Data For This Month
	Edinburgh Gogarbank	Edinburgh Botanic Gardens
Total Amount (mm)	13.6 (21.4 % of LTA)	10.4 (17.1% of LTA)
Number of Rain Days	1 (7.8% of LTA)	1 (8.8% of LTA)
Number of Dry Days	1	1
Rainfall Data For This Winter
	Edinburgh Gogarbank	Edinburgh Botanic Gardens
Total Amount (mm)	13.6 (7.0% of LTA)	10.4 (5.9% of LTA)
Number of Rain Days	1 (2.8% of LTA)	1 (3.0% of LTA)
Number of Dry Days	1	1
Rainfall Data For This Year
	Edinburgh Gogarbank	Edinburgh Botanic Gardens
Total Amount (mm)	859.0 (113.9% of LTA)	767.2 (108.9% of LTA)
Number of Rain Days	132 (96.1% of LTA)	126 (101.4% of LTA)
Number Of Dry Days	146	146

All of the above data is taken from the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) and is for up until 09:00 UTC (9am GMT) on 3 December 2020.

This month's data runs from 09:00 UTC (9am GMT) on 1 December 2020

This winter's data runs from 09:00 UTC (9am GMT) on 1 December 2020

This year's data runs from 09:00 UTC (9am GMT) on 1 January 2020

LTA = 1981-2010 average for the month, season or year in question at that particular station.

A wet start to both this month and this winter with a lot of the totals for the last 24 hours falling as sleet or snow.

 

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1.8mm So Far.

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3.0 mm This month.

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Around 18mm since midnight and it's still hammering it down.

10mm here and intensity has ramped up. If only it was 5C colder!

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10mm here and intensity has ramped up. If only it was 5C colder!

Would need to be 7C colder down this end but the now 21.5mm would be looking spectacular 

8.1mm so far today here, and from the look of the radar there is plenty more to come.

 

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Would need to be 7C colder down this end but the now 21.5mm would be looking spectacular 

Temperature has dropped from 6.5C earlier to 5.2C now. 15mm for the day now so 5mm in past 45 mins or so. Phone app still going for rain turning to snow in the early hours tonight - would be nice to see some flakes albeit with no hope of anything settling here I would think.

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6.3mm of rain so far today

Month total : 7.8mm

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Heavy rain all day today

wettest day since the deluge at the start of October

16.2mm today

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19mm for the day so far. Stopped for now and temperature has dropped to 3.6C. Further ppn is due in the night and my phone app still reckons it will turn to snow around 2am. Could be the first lamppost watch of the season!

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Just reached the 20 mm mark (since 12 am) with another spell of heavy rain but winds are now flat calm after having been strong southerly all day.

Currently 6.7 c so I think it will remain in liquid form for now. 

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8.1mm so far today here, and from the look of the radar there is plenty more to come.

 

There certainly was plenty more - in the last 24 hours we've had 23mm of rain.  Squelch.

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Rainfall Data Since 9am (09:00 UTC) Yesterday Morning
	Edinburgh Gogarbank	Edinburgh Botanic Gardens
Total Amount (mm)	8.0	10.0
Rainfall Data For This Month
	Edinburgh Gogarbank	Edinburgh Botanic Gardens
Total Amount (mm)	22.0 (34.6 % of LTA)	20.4 (33.6% of LTA)
Number of Rain Days	2 (15.5% of LTA)	2 (17.5% of LTA)
Number of Dry Days	1	1
Rainfall Data For This Winter
	Edinburgh Gogarbank	Edinburgh Botanic Gardens
Total Amount (mm)	22.0 (11.4% of LTA)	20.4 (11.6% of LTA)
Number of Rain Days	2 (5.5% of LTA)	2 (6.0% of LTA)
Number of Dry Days	1	1
Rainfall Data For This Year
	Edinburgh Gogarbank	Edinburgh Botanic Gardens
Total Amount (mm)	867.4 (115.0% of LTA)	777.2 (110.4% of LTA)
Number of Rain Days	133 (96.9% of LTA)	127 (102.3% of LTA)
Number Of Dry Days	146	146
Minimum Requirements For This Year To Be Wetter Than Average
	Edinburgh Gogarbank	Edinburgh Botanic Gardens
Number of Rain Days	5	0

All of the above data is taken from the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) and is for up until 09:00 UTC (9am GMT) on 4 December 2020.

This month's data runs from 09:00 UTC (9am GMT) on 1 December 2020

This winter's data runs from 09:00 UTC (9am GMT) on 1 December 2020

This year's data runs from 09:00 UTC (9am GMT) on 1 January 2020

Minimum requirements for this year to be met between 09:00 UTC (9am GMT) on 4 December 2020 and 09:00 UTC (9am GMT) on 1 January 2021

LTA = 1981-2010 average for the month, season or year in question at that particular station.

The very wet start to this winter goes on, and it's even chucking it down here even as I write.

 

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Rainfall Data Since 9am (09:00 UTC) Yesterday Morning
	Edinburgh Gogarbank	Edinburgh Botanic Gardens
Total Amount (mm)	8.0	10.0

 

On the basis of 1mm rain = 1cm snow that 8mm at gogarbank matches very precisely to the 8cm on my bikestore roof!

12mm falling over the last 24 hours here, which is our December total so far.

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24mm this month after 23mm last couple of days

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I will give my next full report here tomorrow but even since my last report here (which was only posted here this morning), we have had a further 14.4 mm of rain at Edinburgh Gogarbank as at 4pm this afternoon, along with 10.6 mm at the botanic gardens in Edinburgh.

That already makes today our wettest day of this winter so far at both of those stations regardless of what happens from now on, and it is still absolutely chucking down here as I write.

The result of this is that during this month so far, we have already had more than half of our 1981-2010 December average rainfall at both of those stations (36.4 mm at Edinburgh Gogarbank and 31.0 mm at the botanic gardens in Edinburgh as at 4pm this afternoon) and we are only about half way through the first week of this month.

This is clearly turning out to be a thoroughly wet and miserable start to this winter as we continue to pay for all of the dry weather which we had during November.

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