19.8mm and on course to be the wettest month of the winter for the third year in a row despite February used to having been the driest of the three winter months by a wide margin. 15/16 is in fact the only winter of the past five in which February has been the driest month.
Here in this part of the world though, I'm not fully convinced as of yet, that this month will actually end up being our wettest month of this winter because with high pressure due to build in over the course of the coming week, that is likely to dry things out quite a lot once again and it has been a recurring theme ever since before last summer than no unsettled spell of weather has ever lasted for all that long before high pressure has then built in yet again.
That is why it has been so dry since then and as for February being the driest month of the winter, we only need to go back to last year to see when that last happened here. Of course, we know that February won't be the driest month of this winter, but that was only down to January being so exceptionally dry (according to Met Office records, the East of Scotland actually had its 4th driest January on record, going all the way back to 1910).
Just now, I won't give my usual detailed report since there is so little to add from the last time that most of the current totals aren't all that much different from what they were then.
The only thing which I will say is that in the end, a total of 1.0 mm of rain fell at Edinburgh Gogarbank during yesterday along with 0.4 mm at the botanic gardens in Edinburgh with today being completely dry so far today at both of those stations as at 8am this morning.
That then, takes this month's total so far as at 8am this morning to 17.8 mm at Edinburgh Gogarbank and 15.2 mm at the botanic gardens in Edinburgh (the fact the we are even lagging behind a city like Aberdeen which is normally one of Scotland's driest cities on average, shows just how dry it has been here recently compared to elsewhere in the UK).
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.