Staggering Total... 80.7 mm This Month    so far'

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Does seem impressive even for here . When was the last time that happened ?

I suspect 2007, but didn't have a WS with a rain guage then. The nearest I can remember was in late Feb/early March 2005, when there were 14 days in a row with sopping wet snowfall... again, the North Sea helped out there.

What's impressive is that the lawn in the back garden is still firm underfoot despite all the rain!

 

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Some light rain just now means it's now 19 days in a row with measurable rain here. That really is quite remarkable for my location.

It's "lake effect" rain that's kept things going, same principle as the much longed-for snow in the winter but a bit warmer!

85mm of rain so far this month, FWIW.

Yes, the easterly winds the last few days had me saying to myself, if only it was January lol

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89mm rainfall here for the month.
1.5mm showers in the night.

I'm on 92mm Tim so it must've rained here today? 

I've been working in Castleford and we just had the one shower today.

 

I'm on 92mm Tim so it must've rained here today? 

I've been working in Castleford and we just had the one shower today.

Yes it did quite a bit this afternoon which was surprising. 2.5mm further here so I am on 91.5mm.

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11.0 mm so far today (since 12 am) as another spell of moderate rain just passed over us. But, yeah, we'll never get to see this kind of set up in deep winter. Probably would be seeing about 5 inch of snow cover by now . . . or it'll just be cold rain.  

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128mm here in Essex so far. Three weeks ago it was a drought ridden dust bowl. Unprecedented for here. That's easily 20% of an average year's rainfall in two weeks!

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Extreme weather: October downpour sees UK's wettest day on record

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-54561601

The main characteristic for October 3 was moderate but persistent rain, and it was very widespread," said Dr Mark McCarthy, from the Met Office.

The average was 31.7mm, not a lot, but happening everywhere.

While the previous record came during the very wet summer of 1986, the third wettest day across the UK was on 15 February this year with 27.2mm.

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I remember pondering at the time on the volume of rain across the whole country and the Met Office answered that:

“Saturday 3 October was the wettest day for UK-wide rainfall since records began in 1891, Met Office researchers have said.
The downpour followed in the wake of Storm Alex and saw an average of 31.7mm (1.24ins) of rain across the entire UK.
The deluge was enough to exceed the capacity of Loch Ness - the largest lake in the UK by volume - the researchers added.”

Monster rainfall indeed!

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81.0 mm This Month

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65.1mm of rain so far this month

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Today 0.4mm.

Last 24hr 0.4mm.

Last 7 days 3.2mm.

Month 114.2mm.

Year 851.0mm

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96mm for the month now after 3mm rain overnight.
Year to date: 817.5mm

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Rainfall Data Since 10am (09:00 UTC) Yesterday Morning
	Edinburgh Gogarbank	Edinburgh Botanic Gardens
Total Amount (mm)	6.4	7.8
Rainfall Data For This Month
	Edinburgh Gogarbank	Edinburgh Botanic Gardens
Total Amount (mm)	80.4 (95.2% of LTA)	81.6 (107.9% of LTA)
Number of Rain Days	10 (78.3% of LTA)	10 (80.7% of LTA)
Number of Dry Days	6	6
Minimum Requirements For This Month To Be Wetter Than LTA
	Edinburgh Gogarbank	Edinburgh Botanic Gardens
Required Amount (mm)	4.2	0.0
Number of Rain Days	3	3
Rainfall Data For This Autumn
	Edinburgh Gogarbank	Edinburgh Botanic Gardens
Total Amount (mm)	129.6 (59.9% of LTA)	127.4 (63.3% of LTA)
Number of Rain Days	18 (49.7% of LTA)	18 (53.3% of LTA)
Number of Dry Days	22	24
Rainfall Data For This Year
	Edinburgh Gogarbank	Edinburgh Botanic Gardens
Total Amount (mm)	762.6 (101.1% of LTA)	686.6 (97.5% of LTA)
Number of Rain Days	114 (83.0% of LTA)	109 (87.8% of LTA)
Number Of Dry Days	132	131
Minimum Requirements For This Year To Be Wetter Than LTA
	Edinburgh Gogarbank	Edinburgh Botanic Gardens
Required Amount (mm)	0.0	17.8

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 20 October 2020.

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

Minimum requirements for this month to be met between 09:00 UTC (10am BST) today and 09:00 UTC (9am GMT) on 1 November 2020

This autumn's data runs from 09:00 UTC (10am BST) on 1 September 2020.

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

Minimum requirements for this year to be met between 09:00 UTC (10am BST) today and 09:00 UTC (9am GMT) on 1 January 2021

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

There has now been more rain during this month at the botanic gardens in Edinburgh than the 1981-2010 October average for that particular station which means that regardless of what happens before the end of this month, this month will now go down as being wetter than average there in terms of the actual rainfall amounts.

Furthermore, the outlook is now more unsettled once again which means that Edinburgh Gogarbank should follow suit before too much longer.

Therefore, this is likely to end up being a very wet month here which is now making that relatively dry September which we had look completely out of place amongst that run of months from June onwards, where every other month has been wetter than average.

 

 

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83.1 mm  This Month.

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Today so far 6.0mm.

Last 24hr 6.0mm.

Last 7 days 6.8mm.

Month 120.2mm.

Year 857.0mm.

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Very wet morning already approaching 20mm 145 mm mtd

Quite a quiet period here over the last week or so, with small by steady amounts of rainfall.
Almost 3mm overnight, now up to 99mm.

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Steady rain here, not quite up to the yellow warning level, though I wouldn't want to be working outside in it and it could be heavier elsewhere.

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3.6  mm  Yesterday

6.9  mm  Today

91.5 mm This Month

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