Since we're now into a brand new month once again, it's now time for another new thread although September's thread will continue to remain available for the time being in order to allow anyone to post their final totals for September.
I would normally be doing that myself but the official observation period which covers September doesn't actually end until 10am BST this morning as that is 09:00 UTC when we go from one official observation day (according to the Met Office) to the next. However, I have a very busy morning ahead at that time with a couple of appointments so I'm not going to be around at the usual time to be able do that. I reckon that I will only be able to do that from the latter part of this afternoon onwards, so please feel to also start the September stats thread in my absence if you have anything to report for that before I can get a chance to post my own stats for that month.
One thing that I will say is that September was once again yet another drier than average month in terms of the actual rainfall amounts but unlike other recent months, it was actually slightly wetter than average in terms of the number of official rain days. This is why I always post the number of rain days on here as well as the actual rainfall totals because this is showing us that there are two different ways of determining how wet or dry any particular month, season or year has actually been.
For here in Edinburgh, the higher number of rain days in September reflects the more unsettled nature of the month but with the actual rainfall totals continuing to be lower than average, this is once again showing us just how little of that rainfall is actually getting through those water scarcity affected areas which need it the most.
Only time will tell whether or not that changes this month in any way but by the end of this month, we will then be ore than two thirds of the way through the autumn which means that if our rainfall totals are going to recover with the water scarcity situation easing as a result, and with the river and reservoir levels also recovering in the manner in which many on this forum have suggested, it very much really needs to be getting on with that now.
According to the 1991-2020 averages, October is actually our wettest month of the year on average but this also means that we will need to getting a lot more rain than what we've been getting in order to finally get a wetter than average with that required total. being more than it would be in any other month. Personally, I have my doubts as whether that will actually happen or not but regardless of how all of that does pan out, this is the very place to post those all important rainfall totals.
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.