I've noted the isolated showers part but I'd wager based on what's come before these will amount to nought here.

I'd love to be wrong though...

With everything being tinder dry a bearing running hot can cause chaff to smoulder and catch  fire . Most years that is as far as it would go  but atm a few sparks and the ground is alight. Chaff on the exhaust manifold is another source and it can be as little as a spark off a struck flint.

 Trouble is on a Combine if the smoke is blowing behind you it is not noticed straight away and is more likely to be spotted by the Trailer Drivers.

Yes the east certainly caught the downpours whilst the nose of high pressure from the Azores kept the south and southwest dry

See Brian's warmest summer thread.

Ideally, old threads from previous months should be locked a few days after the end of the month in question once everyone has had a good chance to post their final statistics on there. However, I'm not a mod so I don't have the power on this forum to be able to do that (that could possibly be a good task for DEW).

We're now approaching the halfway point in the month, but a total of just 10.2 mm of rain has been recorded for this month so far at Edinburgh Gogarbank with with very little in the way of rainfall being forecast for the foreseeable future as confirmed by DEW in the AIFS summary in his daily post for today in the MO thread.

31.8mm so far, which is less than the average for this period in the month. Despite this, and the recent/ongoing heat, the soils around are still quite wet as drying has been poor. A testament to just how incredibly humid and windless it has been lately. 

Still on zero here. This morning saw another one of those "12 drops per square metre" type rainfalls. 

An unexpected (to me anyway) 2mm of rain last night taking the monthly total here to 8.2mm.

A bit of a sprinkling of 1.8mm during the early hours. It's the first rainfall since the 7th, pushing the monthly total up to 20.2mm.

Rare shower this morning brought my month's total up to 3mm

A promising-looking front manifested itself as 10 minutes of light drizzle this morning.

Strange wet stuff fell from the sky this morning for 5 minutes bringing this months total to 2.04mm

It looked more promising when it was in the middle of the Atlantic a day or so ago.

The monthly total is thus 0.6mm so far.

6mm today. 1.5 from the front earlier this afternoon and the rest just now from a short but very sharp thundery shower. 14.2mm for the month so far. 

This will have helped slow the surface moor and forest fire which has been running out of control over 1000s of acres since Monday - but far more needed to seriously damp the burning peat underground..

The latest rainfall data for Edinburgh Gogarbank is as follows:

Data For Recent Days

Total since 10 am BST (09:00 UTC) yesterday morning: 1.2 mm (as at 6:40 am BST (05:40 UTC) this morning on Thursday 28 August 2025)

Monthly Data

Total for this month so far: 16.6 mm (22.2% of 1991-2020 August average)

Number of rain days during this month: 4 (35.8% of 1991-2020 August average)

Number of dry days during this month: 17

Seasonal Data

Total for this summer so far: 164.8 mm (76.5% of 1991-2020 summer average)

Number of rain days during this summer: 26 (77.2% of 1991-2020 summer average)

Number of dry days during this summer: 48

Annual Data

Total for this year so far: 352.0 mm (44.9% of 1991-2020 annual average)

Number of rain days during this year: 61 (44.4% of 1991-2020 annual average)

Number of dry days during this year: 139

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.

"It never rains but it pours"! Really tipping it down this morning, gutters overflowing, standing water across the road, though easing up as I type.

The lawn, remarkably, has only taken a few days to recover and has gone from brown to  green i only a few days since the weather remembered how to rain earlier this week.

I remember in Palawan the Bermuda grass going from an ochre colour to a verdant Green in less than a week at the start of the rainy season. Here in Dorset the dust washed away overnight on foliage and I anticipate an Edenic transformation in the same way as there.

Up to 13mm for the month

Up to 3mm now following some useful rain this morning. Cue the usual moaning locally about the weather warning...

Another excellent soaking here this morning. Was woken by some very heavy rain around 3am and again at my usual waking hour of 6am. The rain then continued persistently moderate to heavy, with a final torrential spell as it cleared away

Going by various containers in the garden it looks like we've had 50mm+ over the past couple of days. Ties in with a depth increase since yesterday evening in my storage tank off the shed of around 40cm, which roughly equates to 40-45mm of rainfall given the roof area and tank volume

I can empathise with Moomins comments on the other thread re localised rain - We've been the opposite, with 60+mm events recorded mere miles to our north and south during July and sometimes nothing or no more than 14mm here. On one occassion i walked the dog in torrential rain at the end of my road and came home to dry sunshine at my front door!