Similar here. 40.2mm MTD and 312mm YTD.

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19.4mm to date

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22mm to date. 

19.6mm

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Here in Edinburgh, the latest totals for this month so far are 21.2 mm at Edinburgh Gogarbank (which is 42.3% of the 1991-2020 May average) and 22.8 mm at the botanic gardens in Edinburgh (which is 47.9% of the 1991-2020 May average).

Here, I have decided to use a different source for this data as I now have access to all of the same raw SYNOP/BUFR which was used for the now defunct weathercast website, which I didn't used to have beforehand.

For that reason, I am now using the raw BUFR/SYNOP data for that because although SEPA are sometimes very good at providing up to date data, the available raw SYNOP/BUFR data is usually more likely to be completely up to date than the data from SEPA.

Furthermore, this is the same data source which I use to report temperatures and other aspects of our weather on this forum, so this also keeps everything more consistent in terms of what I report here.

What I have noticed though, is there has been no addition to those totals for a whole week at either of those two stations, so it really does hardly ever rain here any more (hence the reason why I'm hardly ever on this forum these days because there is no point in me being here if I have nothing interesting to report).

In spite of that continued lack of rainfall though, the latest water scarcity report which was released by SEPA on 11 May 2023 have confirmed that just about the whole of Scotland is at normal levels in terms of water scarcity, with the exception of NW Scotland and the outer Hebrides which are still at early warning status.
 

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60mm exactly MTD after 5.4mm of rain today.

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Data from Radio 4 weatherman, commenting on the local nature of showers; Benson 19mm today, Reading 15 miles away 0mm

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Data from Radio 4 weatherman, commenting on the local nature of showers; Benson 19mm today, Reading 15 miles away 0mm

Yes I heard that too, we must have been on the edge at home just to the W of Reading with our 5mm. Where I was fishing on the Test near Stockbridge it rained for a couple of hours, sometimes heavy, with a good few cracks of thunder, so no idea what we had but I was certainly soaked.

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47.40 MM This month

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We've not been getting much rain here in Edinburgh just lately, but there has been a little bit more rain here during the last day or so than what had been forecast, especially since this had come from a slow moving frontal system which was in the process of decaying as it runs up a massive area of high pressure.

The total rainfall from that event was 2.2 mm at Edinburgh Gogarbank along with 3.8 mm at the botanic gardens in Edinburgh.

However, this only takes our total for this month so far to 23.6 mm (47.0% of the 1991-2020 May average) at Edinburgh Gogarbank, along with 26.6 mm (47.6% of the 1991-2020 May average) as at 8pm BST (19:00 UTC) this evening.

If anything, the outlook is actually drier than it has been already and so, this is looking like being yet another below average month here for rainfall as it nearly always is now.
 

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Day two of the absolute drought down here - and with no rain in sight, a three-week drought is likely. Everything is lush and green at the moment, but for how much longer?

I suspect other areas will be joining in the drought over the coming week.

(NB, an absolute drought requires less than 0.25mm of rain over 15 days - in my case, it's a big fat zero over the past 15 days.)

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Mays total will actually be near average down here at 87.6mm. However all that fell in the first 9 days of May. We are currently on our 20th day without rainfall.

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Rainfall figures for Sussex in May need to be treated with caution. In the w/b 7th May inland areas were locally getting storms with more than an inch of rain, and that nevertheless quite widespread. However the coastal strip has remained almost dry.

AFAIK there has been no rain anywhere in Sussex since the 13th, though.

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Just recently, I updated the various python scripts which I had written for obtaining all of the data which I report on this forum and as regards to rainfall, these scripts now use the new API to obtain rainfall data from SEPA. Under this new system, it is now possible to obtain totals for every 15 minutes (previously, I could only get that for every hour at most) so in order to simplify everything as much as possible, my scripts now obtain just those 15 minute totals because I am still able to calculate all of the other totals for each hour, day (which is defined as being a second after 09:00 UTC on one day until exactly 09:00 UTC on the following day), month, season and year from those 15 minute totals for each season (currently Edinburgh Gogarbank and the botanic gardens in Edinburgh, although that can easily be extended to cover other SEPA rainfall stations such as Murrayburn and Comiston (which are both also in Edinburgh).

I know that this thread is meant to be for the current monthly totals so far but since there isn't anything to report on that front just now, I can show a list of rainfall totals for this year so far at my two local stations. These totals up to 5:45pm BST (16:45 UTC) this afternoon (30 May 2023) were:

                           Edinburgh Gogarbank                   Botanic Gardens in Edinburgh
January                         42.6 mm (58.3% of LTA)            35.4 mm (54.7% of LTA)
February                       33.2 mm (54.4% of LTA)            32.0 mm (60.3% of LTA)
March                           66.0 mm (125.7% of LTA)          69.8 mm (144.0% of LTA)
April                              30.2 mm (65.8% of LTA)           31.4 mm (77.0% of LTA)
May (total so far)           22.6 mm (45.0% of LTA)          27.8 mm (58.4% of LTA)

where LTA = 1991-2020 average for the month in question for that particular station.

This adds up to an overall deficit for this year of 87.8 mm at Edinburgh Gogarbank along with 58.0 mm at the botanic gardens in Edinburgh and since this comes on top that big deficit from last year which was never completely made up, it should be easy to see from here, just why I continue to be concerned about this situation in terms of possible water shortages ahead if this scenario keeps up, especially with no rain in sight according to the latest model output.

 

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66.4mm final total.  no measurable rain for the past 17days.

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12.2mm was the final total for the month here.

There were some suspicious-looking damp patches on the garden path this morning - turns out there was 0.2mm of rain around 4AM. It's still technically a drought (0.25mm in 15 days is the criteria), but at least it damped down the dust a bit...

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19.6mm is my total for the month

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Still open for final reports from May but June thread has been started

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The latest rainfall data for Edinburgh Gogarbank and the botanic gardens in Edinburgh are as follows:

Monthly Data

Final Total for May 2023: 22.6 mm (45.0% of  May average) at Edinburgh Gogarbank along with 27.8 mm (45.0% of  May average) at the Botanic Gardens in Edinburgh.
Number of rain days during May 2023: 5 (46.5% of  May average) at Edinburgh Gogarbank along with 5 (51.9% of  May average) at the Botanic Gardens in Edinburgh.
Number of dry days during May 2023: 24 at Edinburgh Gogarbank along with 24 at the Botanic Gardens in Edinburgh.

Yet another below average month here in Edinburgh and quite substantially so on this occasion.

Seasonal Data

Final Total for Spring 2023: 118.8 mm (80.0% of  spring average) at Edinburgh Gogarbank along with 129.0 mm (94.3% of  spring average) at the Botanic Gardens in Edinburgh.
Number of rain days during Spring 2023: 25 (82.6% of  spring average) at Edinburgh Gogarbank along with 29 (103.2% of  spring average) at the Botanic Gardens in Edinburgh.
Number of dry days during Spring 2023: 50 at Edinburgh Gogarbank along with 49 at the Botanic Gardens in Edinburgh.

The spring was drier than average overall in the end although the botanic gardens in Edinburgh somehow, managed to end up with a slightly above average number of official rain days during the spring.

Annual Data

Total for this year so far: 194.6 mm (24.8% of annual average) at Edinburgh Gogarbank along with 196.4 mm (27.0% of annual average) at the botanic gardens in Edinburgh.
Number of rain days during this year so far: 43 (31.3% of annual average) at Edinburgh Gogarbank along with 45 (35.1% of annual average) at the botanic gardens in Edinburgh.
Number of dry days during this year so far: 81 at Edinburgh Gogarbank along with 79 at the botanic gardens in Edinburgh.

Note

This data has been obtained from the Scottish Environmental Protection Agency (SEPA) by using a beta version of their latest upcoming API system.
 

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Final total for May here is 48mm, just a little above our average of 44mm.

Almost all the month's rainfall came in the first 11 days, with just 2mm falling after this.

Rainfall for Spring came to 180.5mm, 50% higher than average.  Wettest Spring since 2018, and the 7th wettest Spring in the last 40 years here.

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