The latest rainfall data for Edinburgh Gogarbank and the botanic gardens in Edinburgh are as follows:
Data For Recent Days24 Hour Total up to 10am BST (09:00 UTC) this morning: 2.0 mm at Edinburgh Gogarbank, along with 0.8 mm at the botanic gardens in Edinburgh
Monthly DataFinal Total for March 2023: 64.8 mm (123.5% of 1991-2020 March average) at Edinburgh Gogarbank along with 69.6 mm (143.6% of 1991-2020 March average) at the botanic gardens in Edinburgh.
Number of rain days March 2023: 12 (116.7% of 1991-2020 March average) at Edinburgh Gogarbank along with 14 (142.4% of 1991-2020 March average) at the botanic gardens in Edinburgh.
Number of dry days during March 2023: 8 at Edinburgh Gogarbank along with 8 at the botanic gardens in Edinburgh.
March 2023 was a wetter than average month overall and our first wetter than average month of this year, but not by very much and so the struggle to get any real significant amounts of rain in this part of the world goes on because those same totals just a couple of months or so ago would actually have still been a bit below the average for that particular month..
Seasonal DataTotal for this spring so far: 64.8 mm (43.6% of 1991-2020 spring average) at Edinburgh Gogarbank along with 69.6 mm (50.9% of 1991-2020 spring average) at the botanic gardens in Edinburgh.
Number of rain days during this spring so far: 12 (39.7% of 1991-2020 spring average) at Edinburgh Gogarbank along with 14 (49.8% 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 8 at the botanic gardens in Edinburgh.
Annual DataTotal for this year so far: 140.8 mm (18.0% of 1991-2020 annual average) at Edinburgh Gogarbank along with 137.0 mm (18.8% of 1991-2020 annual average) at the botanic gardens in Edinburgh.
Number of rain days during this year so far: 30 (21.8% of annual average) at Edinburgh Gogarbank along with 30 (23.4% 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 38 at the botanic gardens in Edinburgh.
We are now a quarter of the way through 2023 which means that we should have had around 25% of our annual average rainfall by now, but we still continue to be well short of that after such a dry year last year.
NoteThis data has been obtained from the Scottish Environmental Protection Agency (SEPA) by using a beta version of their latest upcoming API system.
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.