The latest rainfall data for Edinburgh Gogarbank is as follows:
Data For Recent Days24 Hour Total up to 9am GMT (09:00 UTC) this morning: 1.0 mm
Total since 9am GMT (09:00 UTC) this morning: 2.8 mm as at 9:00 pm GMT (21:00 UTC) this evening on Friday 9 February 2024.
Given that today was such a miserable day here, I was expecting far higher totals for today than what we ended up getting.
Monthly DataTotal for this month so far: 10.4 mm (17.0% of 1991-2020 February average).
Number of rain days during this month so far: 4 (37.4% of 1991-2020 February average).
Number of dry days during this month so far: 3
Seasonal DataTotal for this winter so far: 193.2 mm (92.5% of 1991-2020 winter average)
Number of rain days during this winter so far: 33 (89.0% of 1991-2020 winter average).
Number of dry days during this winter so far: 20
This means that only at least another 15.8 mm of rain now needs to fall between now and the end of this month in order for this winter to go down as being wetter than average in terms of the actual amounts.
In addition to that, just at least another 5 rain days now need to be recorded between now and the end of this month in order for this winter to go down as being wetter than average in terms of the number of rain days.
Annual DataTotal for this year so far: 81.8 mm (10.4% of 1991-2020 annual average).
Number of rain days during this year so far: 16 (11.6% of 1991-2020 annual average).
Number of dry days during this year so far: 13
NoteThis data has been obtained from
https://www.ogimet.com in raw BUFR format, and then converted into a more readable form by my own python script.
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.