Meanwhile and in complete contrast to what's happening up there, the rain just keeps on refusing to fall here in Edinburgh as the latest overnight band of rain which has now just about cleared away from here, produced the grand total of just 1.0 mm at Edinburgh Gogarbank and 0.4 mm at the botanic gardens in Edinburgh.
This is showing yet again how Edinburgh is fast developing a desert-like climate these days, and the fact that regardless of the model output and the synoptic setup, it just increasingly never rains here anymore (even Steve with the user name of Gusty on this forum, pointed that out really well just a couple of month's ago when he started July's precipitation thread on my behalf).
It is for that reason, that we never get anything else other than drier than average months here anymore, sometimes even substantially so and despite what the forecasts and the model output is showing, I can see absolutely nothing there which will convince me in any way that this situation is going to change here any time soon.
To be honest, I am just sick and tired of always seeing that same old outcome in that regard, and that is why I have lost so much interest in these threads just lately.
So, expect yet another drier than average month here once again whilst everywhere else gets a good soaking and some much needed rainfall from the latest so-called "unsettled" weather.
Originally Posted by: johncs2016