Looks like April could end up being a wet one, one could even say potentially a wash out  Rainfall totals so far around 33mm anything that falls will simply add to it - April average is around 42mm for here.

 Hardly a washout as the rain fell on just two days the 17th and 18th up until today and very sunny in between.

 

 Hardly a washout as the rain fell on just two days the 17th and 18th up until today and very sunny in between.

I implied that one could which given the melodrama that is so often prevalent amongst TWO posters is fair enough. I certainly didn't say it had been though 😉 

By the way there has been 4 days this April  with 1mm or more of rain down here and we still have two more to go. We also had rain on another day but it was drizzly rubbish that didn't amount to much.

A good soaking from today's rain. Looks like there may be a little more yet to come, but so far today we've had 16.5mm.

We had 15.3mm from April 1st-27th (15.0mm of this was on 17th/18th) so the total has more than doubled to 31.8mm, not much below average despite so many dry and sunny days.

I knew if I posted that we would get more! The daily total was 19.5mm in the end, so 34.8 month to date.

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I implied that one could which given the melodrama that is so often prevalent amongst TWO posters is fair enough. I certainly didn't say it had been though 😉 

By the way there has been 4 days this April  with 1mm or more of rain down here and we still have two more to go. We also had rain on another day but it was drizzly rubbish that didn't amount to much.

Surely the melodrama is to refer to the sunniest April on record as a 'washout', and that record established by the 28th too, still a bit of time to add to the total. Even if the south ends up with 4 or 5 days with significant rainfall, and some of that overnight, the abiding memory is going to be of frustration at not being able to use the prolonged spells of fine weather to get out and about.

 

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Today 0.6mm.

Last 24hr 13.8mm.

Month 31mm.

Year 492.4mm.

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Surely the melodrama is to refer to the sunniest April on record as a 'washout', and that record established by the 28th too, still a bit of time to add to the total. Even if the south ends up with 4 or 5 days with significant rainfall, and some of that overnight, the abiding memory is going to be of frustration at not being able to use the prolonged spells of fine weather to get out and about.

 

Melodrama is in general not referencing anything specific i've noted lately, but it is something that is reasonably common in here. 

Anyway we are now approaching 50mm for the month as the rain continues to fall :)

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.tutiempo.net/amp-en/climate/ws-31600.html 

Info for John in Edinburgh (and the rest of us) These records for Edinburgh Airport go back to 1973. They don't show sunshine though, I'll keep digging for those records John

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Yesterday's and overnight rain has broken the April drought, and indeed is the first rainfall here since 15th March, which was 5 weeks ago.

So April's total is now 11.4mm.

Since I last posted on the 18th (quoted above), we have had 9 days with no rain here, then yesterday it rained all day giving a total of 24.4mm for the month to date.  The LTA is 49.4mm so I doubt that we will reach that.

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28.2 mm This month

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3mm for the month here (most of which fell yesterday) before the rain started this afternoon.

51mm after this afternoon's rain cleared. I reckon by this time tomorrow it will be into the 60's as overnight we're expecting more heavy rain, and then heavy showers tomorrow.

9.8mm for the month now .

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29mm month to date

It shows how very hard it is to break the "driest on record", certainly at regional and national levels, this April may not even be in the top 20 come at the end of the month. 

 

It's now not in the top 25. 

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3.3  mm  Yesterday 

0.9  mm  Today

31.5mm  This Month

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Latest Rainfall Data For Edinburgh As At 10am This Morning
	Edinburgh Gogarbank	Edinburgh Botanic Gardens
24 Hours To 09:00 UTC Today (mm)	2.8	2.2
Total Amount For This Month (mm)	4.0 (8.7% of LTA)	3.6 (8.9% of LTA)
Number of Rain Days This Month	1 (10.2% of LTA)	1 (11.4% of LTA)
Total Amount For This Spring (mm)	52.6 (34.8% of LTA)	43.8 (31.0% of LTA)
Number of Rain Days This Spring	12 (36.4% of LTA)	13 (45.9% of LTA)
Total Amount For This Year (mm)	308.6 (40.9% of LTA)	258.8 (36.8% of LTA)
Number of Rain Days This Year	48 (35.0% of LTA)	45 (36.2% of LTA)

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

Once again, the official observation day which ended at 10am this morning (09:00 UTC) was the wettest day of this month so far at both of those stations with as we have just entered the final official observation day of this month, even though neither of those totals were particularly high.

However, this is enough to mean that this month won't after all, be the driest month on record at either of those stations, or the driest April on record at Edinburgh Gogarbank.

Nevertheless, this month remains on course to be the driest April on record at the botanic gardens in Edinburgh and the second driest April on record at Edinburgh Gogarbank.

This month will only be the second driest April on record at Edinburgh Gogarbank though if the next 24 hours are completely dry there, and will only be the driest April on record at the botanic gardens in Edinburgh if a total of less than 0.4 mm of rain falls there over the course of the next 24 hours.

Whatever happens during the next 24 hours though, this month will go down as being substantially drier than average at both of those stations both in terms of the actual rainfall amounts, and in terms of the number of official rain days.

 

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1.5 mm Today

32.1 mm This Month

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51mm after this afternoon's rain cleared. I reckon by this time tomorrow it will be into the 60's as overnight we're expecting moreheavy rain, and then heavy showers tomorrow.

 

57mm now and currently hammering it down.

So officially speaking relative to average Thorney island is currently standing in number one place this month with 132% of its average. 

I wonder what today's totals will bring.

Larkhil was in second at 117% 

 

http://www.met.reading.ac.uk/~brugge/CURR.html

 

Lots of showers today. 

Today 7.2mm.

Last 24hr 11.6mm.

Month 42.6mm.

Year 504.0mm.

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