The latest rainfall data for Edinburgh Gogarbank and the botanic gardens in Edinburgh are as follows:
Data For Recent Days24 Hour Total up to 9am GMT (09:00 UTC) this morning: 7.4 mm at Edinburgh Gogarbank, along with 6.4 mm at the botanic gardens in Edinburgh
Monthly DataTotal for this month so far: 58.6 mm (111.6% of 1991-2020 March average) at Edinburgh Gogarbank along with 62.6 mm (129.1% of 1991-2020 March average) at the botanic gardens in Edinburgh.
Number of rain days during this month so far: 9 (87.5% of 1991-2020 March average) at Edinburgh Gogarbank along with 10 (101.7% of 1991-2020 March average) at the botanic gardens in Edinburgh.
Number of dry days during this month so far: 8 at Edinburgh Gogarbank along with 7 at the botanic gardens in Edinburgh.
This means that more rain has now fallen at Edinburgh Gogarbank during this month than the 1991-2020 March average and so regardless of what happens between now and the end of this month, this month will go down as being wetter than average there in terms of the actual rainfall amounts.
In addition to that, at least another 2 rain days now need to be recorded at Edinburgh Gogarbank between now and the end of this month in order for this month to go down as being wetter than average there in terms of the number of rain days.
However, more official rain days have now been recorded during this month at the botanic gardens in Edinburgh than the 1991-2020 March average and so this month will now go down as being wetter than average there in terms of the number of rain days regardless of what happens between now and the end of this month.
Seasonal DataTotal for this spring so far: 58.6 mm (39.5% of 1991-2020 spring average) at Edinburgh Gogarbank along with 62.6 mm (45.7% of 1991-2020 spring average) at the botanic gardens in Edinburgh.
Number of rain days during this spring so far: 9 (29.8% of 1991-2020 spring average) at Edinburgh Gogarbank along with 10 (35.6% of 1991-2020 spring average) at the botanic gardens in Edinburgh.
Number of dry days during this spring so far: 8 at Edinburgh Gogarbank along with 7 at the botanic gardens in Edinburgh.
There are three months in each season and we are only just coming towards the first month of this spring, yet the botanic gardens in Edinburgh have already had almost half of their 1991-2020 average spring rainfall so far during this spring.
Annual DataTotal for this year so far: 134.6 mm (17.2% of 1991-2020 annual average) at Edinburgh Gogarbank along with 130.0 mm (17.9% of 1991-2020 annual average) at the botanic gardens in Edinburgh.
Number of rain days during this year so far: 27 (19.6% of annual average) at Edinburgh Gogarbank along with 26 (20.3% of 1991-2020 annual average) at the botanic gardens in Edinburgh.
Number of dry days during this year so far: 39 at Edinburgh Gogarbank along with 37 at the botanic gardens in Edinburgh.
At the end of this month, we will be a quarter of the way through the year and this means that we should be getting around a quarter of our average annual rainfall during any given year up until then, but we are still clearly lagging behind that target by some considerable margin just now as shown by the above data.
NoteThis data has been obtained from the Scottish Environmental Protection Agency (SEPA) by using a beta version of their latest upcoming API system.
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