The UK's first ever July named storm. #StormEvert
If my memory serves me right, this year will therefore be the fourth year in a row where at least one part of the UK will have experienced at least one named storm during the summer as well (last year, there was even two of them as Storm Ellen was quickly followed by Storm Francis).
I have noted though that once again, it is the southerners who are hogging all of the more interesting weather action from this. That has been ongoing for quite a while now (there has been some recent heavy rain here in Scotland as well but as per usual, Edinburgh got almost nothing at all from that as we generally don't get "interesting" weather here, and even that wet spell in the rest of Scotland has ended up being fairly short-lived compared to what is regularly happening down south).
This therefore, is only continuing to lend further weight to my argument that we really need to stop referring to the so-called "default" setup as being one which is wettest in the north and driest in the south, especially as I can't even remember the last time that this was actually the case, thus showing that this is clearly no longer the case any more as it once used to be.
All too often, I see model output which promises a change to wetter conditions in the north and drier conditions in the south, only for that to either completely fail to materialise, or for everything to be shunted further south so that it is the southerners who end up getting either most or all of the wet weather yet again. Furthermore, I have even lost count of how many times this has happened over the last year or so, as that has been happening so often.
Furthermore, I see nothing in the latest model output which suggests any sort of change to that scenario any time soon.
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29 July 2021 17:08:59
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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.