Massive downpour IMBY last night, gutters overflowing, water rushing down the road, went on for a good half hour - as evidenced by this downstream river level chart - up 25cm in a nanosecond (the braid burn is where the water rushing down the road goes to)

https://www2.sepa.org.uk/waterlevels/default.aspx?sd=t&lc=14876


Predictably, Edinburgh Gogarbank recorded 0.6mm for the same event 🙂 - so it must have been pretty localised

https://www2.sepa.org.uk/rainfall#15196

Massive downpour IMBY last night, gutters overflowing, water rushing down the road, went on for a good half hour - as evidenced by this downstream river level chart - up 25cm in a nanosecond (the braid burn is where the water rushing down the road goes to)

https://www2.sepa.org.uk/waterlevels/default.aspx?sd=t&lc=14876


Predictably, Edinburgh Gogarbank recorded 0.6mm for the same event 🙂 - so it must have been pretty localised

https://www2.sepa.org.uk/rainfall#15196

According to SEPA, the nearest station to the Braid Burn where you have mentioned, is at Comiston in the south of Edinburgh and the data for there showed that the highest rainfall amount in a single hour was 3.6 mm which was recorded between midnight and 1am this morning. That is in complete contrast to just 1.2 mm as recorded at the botanic gardens in Edinburgh and a measly 0.6 mm as recorded at Edinburgh Gogarbank as the highest total for a single hour. Anyway, the latest data for Edinburgh Gogarbank and the botanic gardens in Edinburgh from SEPA is as follows:

Last 24 Hours Rainfall Data
	Edinburgh Gogarbank	Edinburgh Botanic Gardens
Total Amount (mm)	7.0	5.6
Rainfall Data For This Month
	Edinburgh Gogarbank	Edinburgh Botanic Gardens
Total Amount (mm)	27.4 (42.8% of LTA)	26.2 (40.3% of LTA)
Number of Rain Days	5 (49.0% of LTA)	5 (52.6% of LTA)
Number of Dry Days	2	1
Minimum Requirements For This Month To Be Wetter Than LTA
	Edinburgh Gogarbank	Edinburgh Botanic Gardens
Number Of Rain Days	6	5
Rainfall Data For This Summer
	Edinburgh Gogarbank	Edinburgh Botanic Gardens
Total Amount (mm)	96.6 (50.0% of LTA)	91.8 (49.2% of LTA)
Number of Rain Days	19 (59.8% of LTA)	21 (72.9% of LTA)
Number of Dry Days	11	10
Rainfall Data For This Year
	Edinburgh Gogarbank	Edinburgh Botanic Gardens
Total Amount (mm)	425.8 (56.5% of LTA)	369.4 (52.5% of LTA)
Number of Rain Days	75 (54.6% of LTA)	72 (58.0% of LTA)
Number Of Dry Days	89	88

All of the above data is taken from the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) and is for up until 09:00 UTC (10am BST) on 10 July 2020.

This month's data runs from 09:00 UTC (10am BST) on 1 July 2020

This summer's data runs from 09:00 UTC (10am BST) on 1 June 2020

This year's data runs from 09:00 UTC (9am GMT) on 1 January 2020

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

Minimum Requirements to be met between 09:00 UTC (10am BST) today and 09:00 UTC (10am BST) on 1 August 2020, and are based on the 1981-2010 average for the current month.

 

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13.9mm This Month

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62mm now after 8mm more from showers in the last 24 hours.

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47.2mm

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41.4mm here in North Herts

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14•2mm this month.

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5.8mm today so far

37.0mm for the month

14.7mm This Month

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65mm for the month now after some showery rain today.
514mm for the year, so wetter than average so far.

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1.2mms Today.
15.9mms This Month

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0.9 mm Today

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3.6mm Today

16.8mm This Month.

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We're over half-way through the month, and rainfall here totals 10.4mm, which is 22% of the LTA for July, so it's looking like another dry month.

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Had a real dousing from yesterday evening to the early morning hours with 15mm of rain.

July total at 50.2mm

still 12 days to go , looking a wet month.

As with AJ just 2.5mm yesterday again of nuisance rain total 14 mm for month another dry month a very dry 4 month period in this corner

As with AJ just 2.5mm yesterday again of nuisance rain total 14 mm for month another dry month a very dry 4 month period in this corner

 It has been very dry right along the south coast from Devon to Kent probably as far North as the M4 .Rain bearing fronts have come on a different track to normal with more of a west to east or n.w to s.e track. Round here we normally get heavy thunder type rain moving up from the south making the largest totals but they have been absent this year.

As you will see above, my last full report on this thread was away back on 10 July and that is because we have had no significant rainfall here in Edinburgh since then. We have had the odd occasion in that time where it has been damp and drizzly, but there hasn't been a single day during that period where more than 0.6 mm of rain has been recorded at any of my three local stations.

This means that all of the totals for this area, remain very close to what I reported on 10 July, despite that day now being 11 days ago. In fact, even Richard/Doctormog up in Aberdeen have been getting more rain during recent weeks than we have been getting here in Edinburgh which therefore, has to be one of the driest places in the whole of Scotland over the last wee while, and possibly even in the whole of the UK over the last couple of weeks.

 

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Last 24 Hours Rainfall Data
	Edinburgh Gogarbank	Edinburgh Botanic Gardens
Total Amount (mm)	4.2*	4.6*
Rainfall Data For This Month
	Edinburgh Gogarbank	Edinburgh Botanic Gardens
Total Amount (mm)	33.4 (52.1% of LTA)	32.0 (49.2% of LTA)
Number of Rain Days	6 (58.8% of LTA)	6 (63.2% of LTA)
Number of Dry Days	9	7
Minimum Requirements For This Month To Be Wetter Than LTA
	Edinburgh Gogarbank	Edinburgh Botanic Gardens
Number Of Rain Days	5	4
Rainfall Data For This Summer
	Edinburgh Gogarbank	Edinburgh Botanic Gardens
Total Amount (mm)	102.6 (57.3% of LTA)	97.6 (52.3% of LTA)
Number of Rain Days	20 (62.9% of LTA)	22 (76.4% of LTA)
Number of Dry Days	18	16
Rainfall Data For This Year
	Edinburgh Gogarbank	Edinburgh Botanic Gardens
Total Amount (mm)	431.8 (57.3% of LTA)	375.2 (53.3% of LTA)
Number of Rain Days	76 (55.4% of LTA)	73 (58.8% of LTA)
Number Of Dry Days	96	94

^* As it was still raining when I posted this report, the actual figures might end up being slightly higher in the end, than what is reported here.

All of the above data is taken from the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) and is for up until 09:00 UTC (10am BST) on 22 July 2020.

This month's data runs from 09:00 UTC (10am BST) on 1 July 2020

This summer's data runs from 09:00 UTC (10am BST) on 1 June 2020

This year's data runs from 09:00 UTC (9am GMT) on 1 January 2020

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

Minimum Requirements to be met between 09:00 UTC (10am BST) today and 09:00 UTC (10am BST) on 1 August 2020, and are based on the 1981-2010 average for the current month.

It has been so dry here recently that this month shouldn't end up being anything other than drier than average in the end, at least in terms of the actual rainfall amounts.

However, a more unsettled ending to this month is now being forecast and so, there is still no way of knowing for sure, how this month will finally turn out in the end.

 

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In the end, a total of 6.0 mm of rain was recorded at Edinburgh Gogarbank in the 24 hours up until 10am (09:00 UTC) this morning along with 6.0 mm at the botanic gardens in Edinburgh, which adds a further 1.8 mm onto all of the above totals for Edinburgh Gogarbank and 1.4 mm onto all of the above totals for the botanic gardens in Edinburgh.

Since then, at least a further 1.2 mm of rain has fallen at Edinburgh Gogarbank since 10am (09:00 UTC) as at 11am this morning, along with at least another 1.2 mm of rain at the botanic gardens in Edinburgh and it is still raining here even as I write.

This means that the 24 hour period from 10am (09:00 UTC) this morning until the same time tomorrow morning will already be going down a further official rain day at both of those stations regardless of what happens between now and 10am tomorrow morning.

This therefore, leaves us needing just another 4 official rain days at Edinburgh Gogarbank between now and the end of this month in order for this month to go down as being wetter than average there in terms of the number of official rain days, with just another 3 official rain days needed within the same time period at the botanic gardens in Edinburgh, in order for the same thing to happen there.

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