Final Rainfall Totals In Edinburgh For April 2020 |
|
Edinburgh Gogarbank |
Edinburgh Botanic Gardens |
24 Hours To 09:00 UTC Today (mm) |
0.0 |
0.6 |
Final Total For Last Month (mm) |
4.0 (8.7% of LTA) |
4.2 (10.4% of LTA) |
Number of Rain Days Last Month |
1 (10.2% of LTA) |
1 (11.4% of LTA) |
Total Amount For This Spring (mm) |
52.6 (34.8% of LTA) |
44.4 (31.5% 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) |
259.4 (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.
A substantially drier than average month at both of those stations both in terms of the actual rainfall amounts, and in terms of the number of official rain days.
In terms of the actual rainfall amounts, it wasn't quite our driest April on record at either of those stations, but we did come very close to that and it was only a little bit of rainfall on Wednesday 29 April in particular, which prevented that from actually happening in the end.
It was unofficially, the second driest April on record at Edinburgh Gogarbank according to the data from SEPA which I have reported here, but the official Met Office data is likely to confirm that this was probably not actually the case as the monthly total according to the official Met Office data is likely to be slightly higher than the monthly total from the SEPA data which is reported here.
Nevertheless, April 2020 is likely to officially go down as one of our top three driest Aprils on record at both of those stations, even if we go by the actual official Met Office data.
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.