Here in Edinburgh, today was our warmest day of this month so far with a maximum temperature of 21.6°C, and even that is a whole 10°C cooler than that really high temperature of 31.6°C which was recorded at that very same station in this very same month during last year, that resulted in that particular day going down as our hottest day on record.
Furthermore, that has come with a total of just 3.8 hours of sunshine being recorded for today at Edinburgh Gogarbank. So far, we are now just over halfway through this month and still haven't yet had a single day during this month with a total of 8 or more hours of sunshine throughout this entire month.
In addition to that, we had only had less than a third of the 1981-2010 July average sunshine at Edinburgh Gogarbank during this month so far, so this is clearing to going to go down as another substantially duller than average month unless those sunshine totals improve considerably during the second half of this month.
Yet, this has been anything but a wet month here. We have only had just over 40% of of our 1981-2010 July average rainfall during this month so far with most of that coming in the very first week of this month, and we have now gone an entire week without even as much as a single official rain day here in Edinburgh.
June was only slightly wetter than average here which means that we haven't even started to make up the rainfall deficit which resulted from that exceptionally dry spring and now, that deficit is getting even bigger all the time. Even the wet winter which preceded all of that, merely made up the really large deficit which has built up over a long period in 2018 and the beginning of 2019, so we never seem to ever be in any sort of rainfall surplus, and are always constantly making up one rainfall deficit after another these days.
On that note, I will therefore challenge anyone on this forum who can tell me any location outside of the extreme SE of England which has been drier than here in SE Scotland overall since the start of the spring, and I'm talking about rainfall anomalies here, rather than actual totals. It has been said a lot that the SW half of the UK is wetter on average than the SE half of the UK, but the latest data is showing that to be utter rubbish and lies because SE Scotland is itself, part of the NW half of the UK and yet, has been drier than quite a lot of places down south during the last few months overall.
What this boils down to is the most boring and inept climate which you could ever hope for as we increasingly find ourselves with nothing day in and day our, other than that same old story where it increasingly never rains, and yet where we are always subject to constant grey skies and maybe the odd bit of sunshine. Indeed, it has now become like Groundhog Day in that regard because there never changes any more from one day to the next which means that any report in any day's CC thread can now be easily made up simply by copying and pasting everything over from the previous day's post.
That just goes to show how increasingly boring and uninteresting our weather has now become, and I'm really sick to the back teeth of that now as that has now gone completely beyond a joke.
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.