Incredibly, we still have some thunder and lightning ongoing from earlier on and if anything, the lightning has actually become even more frequent over the last wee while. In addition to that, we also had a burst of torrential rain a short while ago.
This is all now reminding me of what happened at around the same time last year when we had constant thunder and lightning for several hours along with constant torrential rain, all caused by an actual area of low pressure moving directly over here from off the Atlantic.
We haven't had the constant rain this time, but the radar maps have showed something very interesting happening. From that, it would appear that the convergence line which is causing all of that is now moving away eastwards and northwards. As that has happened though, we have remained over some sort of hook which has formed out of that.
That would suggest that an actual secondary area of low pressure has just formed in-situ, right over here, which now appears to be centred over the Firth of Forth, and that it is the resulting instability from that which has kept all of this activity going.
Over time though, I am expecting all of that to eventually move away northwards, and it shouldn't be too much longer before all of that clears away as a result.
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11 August 2020 20:53:55
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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.