I look up to the NW with jealous eyes and see all that welcome rainfall. I have to accept that I live in the driest region of the UK and possibly, due to local topography, drier than the official place at Great Wakering. So far this year, which is now starting summer, I have had just 136mm of rainfall, mostly in the winter months. Somebody else mentioned welcome rain in the S.E corner yesterday - not here just a five minute light shower that barely wet the pavement. 17mm for June which in two or three small drips does nothing. Don't get me wrong, I like sunny summers and don't enjoy long wet spells. But as a keen gardener it is getting ridiculous in the last few years. It is like a Mediterranean climate really but with more cloud and wind!
By that, I assume that you mean everywhere in NW Britain except for here in Edinburgh where as per usual, this latest weather front is breaking up and disintegrating as it reaches us so that we continue to get absolutely nothing from it in terms of rainfall as per usual (if you look closely at the latest radar maps, you will be able to see that process taking place very clearly).
It seems now that if the models tell us it is like to rain here (as has been the case with the most recent output), it probably won't and if the models tell us that it won't rain of course, it probably won't.
In other words, regardless of what the models actually tell us, it just WILL NOT rain here any more.
I'm sure that it never used to be like that but then this kind of thing is what makes these models a complete waste of time in my opinion (that is, unless you live in any other part of NW Britain apart from here in Edinburgh, where you WILL probably get that much needed rainfall and actually get some interesting weather (something which we generally don't get here in Edinburgh).
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.