0.0  mm Yesterday

3.9  mm  Today

22.2 mm  This Month.

1.5 mm last hour

5.4 mm Today

5.7  mm Today

24.0 mm This Month

A total of just 7.6 mm for this month so far at Edinburgh Gogarbank as at midnight, along with 4.8 mm at the botanic gardens in Edinburgh.

That is after a weekend which has ended up being nowhere near as unsettled here as what it had been forecast to be and so, our very dry March goes on with very little prospects of much in the way of rainfall coming up here in the foreseeable future according to the latest model output.

I am aware that it may well be a different story elsewhere within the UK, but that is just further evidence of me living in the boring part of the UK when it comes to our weather, with the more interesting weather always being elsewhere.

Several heavy showers yesterday which delivered 8.9mm have brought the total for the month to date up to 42.2mm, which represents 86% of the LTA for March (49.3mm) in the first quarter of the month.  The deluge continues...

Today 1.6mm.

Last 24hr 7.4mm.

Month 57.0mm.

Year 433.4mm.

As at 8am this morning, total of 4.8 mm of rain has fallen since 9am yesterday morning along with just 2.2 mm at the botanic gardens in Edinburgh.

For Edinburgh Gogarbank, that brings the total for this month to 12.4 mm, the total for this spring to 12.4 mm and the total for this year to 268.4 mm as at 8am this morning.

For the botanic gardens in Edinburgh, that brings the total for this month to 7.0 mm, the total for this spring to 7.0 mm and the total for this year to 222.0 mm as at 8am this morning.

We are now almost a third of the way through the month, but those above totals for this month so far amount to much less than a quarter of the 1981-2010 March average at both those stations, so this is continuing to be rather a dry month here.

Furthermore, it could going by the latest model output, be that we are currently going through what is likely to be the most unsettled period of this month with the outlook looking drier, especially as we get to the second half of the month.

Because of that, this is continuing to look like being a very dry month here indeed in the end, as it stands just now (although having said that, it is raining here just now so all of that could easily change).

1.2  mm    Yesterday

4.5  mm    Today

29.7 mm    This Month

170.7 mm This Year.

Today 2.8mm.

Last 24hr 3.0mm.

Month 60.0mm.

Year 436.4mm.

LTA = 1981-2010 average for the month, season or year in question at that particular station.

As from the above table, we can see that the rainfall totals have picked up a bit over the last couple of days, though not yet by anything like enough to bring this month's totals back up to where we would expect them to be at this time of the month.

5.1  mm Yesterday

30.3 mm This Month

171.3 mm  This Year to date.