The risk of possible water shortages is one thing but what is probably even more concerning and more serious as well is the growing risk of wildfires as a result of all of this dry weather.
In my younger days, that was something which I used to only associate with parts of Australia during the late autumn and summer in the Southern Hemisphere (i.e. around November/December).
However, this is something which appears to become more common and more widespread across the world in recent years to the extent that we have even seen the odd wildfire in places such as Arthur's Seat here in Edinburgh in recent years.
Today should have been the most unsettled day of this current spell of weather, but we had only occasional light rains and this was yet another day without any actual measurable rainfall here in Edinburgh.
Given the current synoptic setup with low pressure so close to here, you have to wonder where on Earth we are going to get any significant rainfall if we can't even get it from what on paper, should be a very unsettled setup.
This makes me really concerned about the water restrictions which I am still convinced, are coming to these parts with today showing that to be the case once again.
At the same time, there was a grass fire on Calton Hill as a result of all this dry weather which caused smoke to billow out right across the city to such an extent that I was even able to see that very clearly from where I live in the NW outskirts of the city.
Luckily, no-one was actually hurt or injured from that but unless we start getting some serious rainfall soon, the risk of more of these events happening is only going to grow and from that, it is only going to be a matter of time before people are seriously injured or possibly even killed from that.
Seen in this light, you will now hopefully see that this is no laughing matter, and is actually very serious indeed.
Furthermore, a lot of people have been saying that the rainfall deficit will probably be made up during the second half of this year but I was watching Gavin P.'s livestream tonight and there is nothing in those long-term forecast charts which he showed us during that livestream that this is actually likely to happen.
If anything, the next six months look every bit as high pressure dominated on those charts as the last six months and at the end of the day, we just can't keep on going on like that without some form of water restrictions coming in, in the end.
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.