All due to those high sea temps off Ireland loading the atmosphere with water vapour????

😂

It's certainly helping feed water into the air, but more in the humidity values than in rain drop form. I don't think i even recorded the barest possible minimal rain rate today. 

Data For Recent Days

24 hour total up to 10 am BST (09:00 UTC) yesterday morning: 5.8 mm

Total since 10 am BST (09:00 UTC) yesterday morning: 7.8 mm (as at 6:40 am BST (05:40 UTC) this morning on Sunday 25 May 2025)

This now makes yesterday our wettest day of this month so far with all of this month's rainfall having occurred just in the last couple of days. 

Monthly Data

Total for this month so far: 13.6 mm (27.1% of 1991-2020 May average)

Number of rain days during this month: 2 (18.6% of 1991-2020 May average)

Number of dry days during this month: 22

Seasonal Data

Total for this spring so far: 64.4 mm (43.4% of 1991-2020 spring average)

Number of rain days during this spring: 11 (36.4% of 1991-2020 spring average)

Number of dry days during this spring: 61

Annual Data

Total for this year so far: 163.2 mm (20.8% of 1991-2020 annual average)

Number of rain days during this year: 29 (21.1% of 1991-2020 annual average)

Number of dry days during this year: 91

Note

This 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 SW breeze moderated down from a brisk F5 to maybe F3. 

A digression from the weather. Talking about things from the SW, South Western Railway is no more and replaced by a bus service as Great British Railways on it's first outing. Lead story on BBC news.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ceqg73znzzeo 

Data For Recent Days

24 hour total up to 10 am BST (09:00 UTC) yesterday morning: 3.0 mm

Total since 10 am BST (09:00 UTC) yesterday morning: 6.8 mm (as at 7:40 am BST (06:40 UTC) this morning on Tuesday 27 May 2025)

Monthly Data

Total for this month so far: 23.4 mm (46.6% of 1991-2020 May average)

Number of rain days during this month: 4 (37.2% of 1991-2020 May average)

Number of dry days during this month: 22

Seasonal Data

Total for this spring so far: 74.2 mm (50.0% of 1991-2020 spring average)

Number of rain days during this spring: 13 (43.0% of 1991-2020 spring average)

Number of dry days during this spring: 61

Annual Data

Total for this year so far: 173.0 mm (22.1% of 1991-2020 annual average)

Number of rain days during this year: 31 (22.6% of 1991-2020 annual average)

Number of dry days during this year: 91

Note

This 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.

Darren Bett saying that in the last few days (week?) the Lake District has had 150mm of rain while Thorney Island (near Portsmouth) has had 1mm

Never mind, it's raining properly here with water actually running down the gutters, a thing I've not seen since March even though (I'd guess) today's rain is probably less than 10mm. Wed did have one moderate fall overnight in April but it had dried up by morning.

Only 41mm of rain here this spring, with just over a third of that on one day in April, and a sixth of it on a second day in April.

May's rainfall is likely to end up as 12.8mm here.

Data For Recent Days

Total since 10 am BST (09:00 UTC) yesterday morning: 5.6 mm (as at 9:40 am BST (08:40 UTC) this morning on Thursday 29 May 2025)

Monthly Data

Total for this month so far: 30.4 mm (60.6% of 1991-2020 May average)

Number of rain days during this month: 5 (46.5% of 1991-2020 May average)

Number of dry days during this month: 22

Despite it taking so long to even get our first recorded rainfall of the month, this month will now go down as our wettest month of the spring in terms of the actual rainfall amounts and only at least another 19.8 mm of rain now needs to fall between now and the end of this month in order for this month to go down as being wetter than average in terms of the actual rainfall amounts. With only two days left of this month though, that is very unlikely to happen and so this month is still looking like another drier than average month overall, though not as dry as it looked like it was going to be.

Seasonal Data

Total for this spring so far: 81.2 mm (54.7% of 1991-2020 spring average)

Number of rain days during this spring: 14 (46.3% of 1991-2020 spring average)

Number of dry days during this spring: 61

Annual Data

Total for this year so far: 180.0 mm (23.0% of 1991-2020 annual average)

Number of rain days during this year: 32 (23.3% of 1991-2020 annual average)

Number of dry days during this year: 91

Note

This 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.

In last week's report, there had been a warning that at least one region would have its status raised to significant water scarcity this week had the prolonged dry spell gone on for any longer. The status of significant water scarcity is as high up on that scale as you can go and so, this makes that the equivalent on that scale of that area being under an official Met Office red warning for a specific weather condition.

That shows us just serious this situation was becoming but because of the last week's rainfall, that has thankfully not ended up happening.

There are some areas which are still at moderate water scarcity status but for here in Edinburgh and the SW of Scotland, that status has now been downgraded from moderate water scarcity status to alert status.

In addition to that, there are some areas in the west of Scotland which have been downgraded from alert status to early warning status and the area of the west of Scotland which has seen the heaviest rain this week has even seen its status being downgraded all the way fro m alert status back to normal without even going through the early warning status although the status of those parts of the Western Isles which were at early warning status last week remains unchanged this week.

Although conditions have improved a bit over the last week due to some very welcome and much needed rainfall in that time, we are still a long way away from being able to say that we've fully recovered from that water scarcity situation and a lot more rainfall will be needed before we can even get close to being able to say that.

However, further rainfall is forecast for the next week as long as we continue to get enough rainfall for the recovery to be able to continue from here, we can at least say that for now at least, we are now heading in the right direction for that.