The official forecasts have been saying for a while that we would have heavy and persistent rain throughout today, and the latest BBC forecast is still sticking with that as I write.
If that is the case, where exactly is that heavy and persistent rain which these forecasts are talking about because I can't see any signs of that here.
We did get a little bit of rain during this morning, but that only really came in dribs and drabs, and has now already cleared away. Furthermore, the latest rain radar maps are showing absolutely nothing in the way of any significant rain for miles on end (that is true even in the west of Scotland which would normally be the most likely place to find that), which could end up heading in this direction any time soon.
The result of this is that the amounts of rain being recorded at my local stations are once again, so tedious and minute that they aren't even worth talking about which is a scenario about our weather which I absolutely detest more than anything else.
Of course, that doesn't mean that I actually want it to be raining all the time, and I would be absolutely off my head if that was the case. If it is going to be raining though, the very least that I want from that is some decent totals which are actually worth reporting and it really gets on my goat when that just isn't happening.
Not too long ago when we were under high pressure and therefore, a relatively "settled" synoptic setup, I commented on another thread that we were actually getting more rain during that setup than what we sometimes get another a low pressure dominated, "unsettled" synoptic setup such as what we are in just now.
At that point in time, daily totals of around 5 mm weren't uncommon and that allowed our totals to catch up a bit with the rest of the country which was experiencing a dry spell at that time under that high pressure.
Now, what I desacribed two paragraphs ago is happening yet again because apart from that one spike which gave us our wettest day of this autumn a couple of days ago, it is now drying up here yet again ander those more "unsettled" synoptic setup to such an extent that we are now back to getting less rain just now, that what we were getting not all that long ago under high pressure and a more "settled" synoptic setup.
If that therefore doesn't show us how crazy our weather can be, I don't know what can but I will end by saying that it is the accuracy of the model output in terms of how today (and yesterday to a certain extent as well) has ended up and how badly wrong they have got that which is the reason for my moan here, and not the fact that it isn't raining all that much here.
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.