As we are now into a new month as well as a new year, I may as well get this thread underway.

According to many forecasts, it may well turn drier by a week's time with the possibility of high pressure building over or close to the UK, but we are still in an unsettled spell of weather for now and many of you may already have something to report for this month very quickly.

Regardless of how this month pans out though, this is the place for all of those important rainfall reports during this month.
 

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Time to bump this post up towards the top of the listings.

There is a lot of rain around just now and I don't want this thread to get lost.
 

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Roads under water already in E Sussex (the R. Cuckmere especially), and a full day's rain to come.

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The latest rainfall data for Edinburgh Gogarbank is as follows:

Data For Recent Days

24 Hour Total up to 9am (09:00 UTC) yesterday morning: 0.6 mm
Total since 9am (09:00 UTC) yesterday morning: 4.2 mm (as at 7am GMT (07:00 UTC) this morning on Tuesday 2 January 2024).

Monthly Data

Total for this month so far: 4.2 mm (5.8% of  January average).
Number of rain days during this month so far: 1 (7.5% of 1991-2020 January average).
Number of dry days during this month so far: 0

Seasonal Data

Total for this winter so far: 122.6 mm (58.7% of  winter average)
Number of rain days during this winter so far: 18 (48.5% of 1991-2020 winter average).
Number of dry days during this winter so far: 7

Annual Data

Total for this year so far: 4.2 mm (0.5% of  annual average).
Number of rain days during this year so far: 1 (0.7% of 1991-2020 annual average).
Number of dry days during this year so far: 0

Note

This data has been obtained from https://www.ogimet.com  in raw BUFR format, and then converted into a more readable form by my own python script.

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A wet start to the year, 14.4mm

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25mm already from last night's heavy rain. 

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25mm already from last night's heavy rain. 

Did you get a final total from December Tim?

Already 33mm this year   after the wettest year on record here 
local willingdon Station ended 2023 on 1500mm 60 inches which is actually nearly twice the 30 year average  truly staggering.
gering. Some 45 percent of that has fallen since mid oct 

2024 starts right where 2023 left off. 27.1mm on New Year's Day evening.

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28mm earlier this afternoon. Still raining.

35mm so far this year

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"Only" 20mm here so far, bloody drought's setting in already...

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26.8mm

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25.4 mm so far this month with quite a bit more likely in the next day or two.

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Already 50mm and tomo is looking like another soaking for the South east coast ! 

Absolutely horrendous start to January. The biggest joke I ever heard was that this month was going to be dry. It isn't. It is going to be another repulsively wet and depressing horror show. The wettest since 2016. Mark my words.

Unbelievably it's actually wetter than 2016 at this stage which is truly incredulous given that was the most disastrously wet start to a year ever recorded. 31.0mm already this month which is already wetter than the entirety of 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2022. Just another 64mm to be wettest since 2016 and it seems hard to get a week passing without that now never mind four weeks 

Already the 5th wettest winter I've recorded after just 34 days 🤮

2020/21  323.2
2013/14  313.8
2009/10  292.8
2015/16  280.6
2023/24  263.8
2012/13  257.2
2022/23  218.2
2008/09  210.8
2010/11  184.0
2007/08  177.4
2006/07  165.6
2021/22  163.6
2016/17  158.8
2005/06  151.0
2019/20  132.8
2017/18  110.6
2014/15  106.2
2018/19  99.0
2011/12  94.0
 

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The latest rainfall data for Edinburgh Gogarbank is as follows:

Data For Recent Days

24 Hour Total up to 9am GMT (09:00 UTC) this morning: 0.4 mm
Total since 9am GMT (09:00 UTC) this morning: 1.2 mm as at 9pm GMT (21:00 UTC) this evening (on Wednesday 3 January 2024).

Monthly Data

Total for this month so far: 6.0 mm (8.2% of  January average).
Number of rain days during this month so far: 2 (15.0% of  January average).
Number of dry days during this month so far: 0

Seasonal Data

Total for this winter so far: 115.2 mm (55.1% of  winter average)
Number of rain days during this winter so far: 18 (48.5% of  winter average).
Number of dry days during this winter so far: 8

Annual Data

Total for this year so far: 6.0 mm (0.8% of  annual average).
Number of rain days during this year so far: 2 (1.5% of  annual average).
Number of dry days during this year so far: 0

Note

This data has been obtained from https://www.ogimet.com  in raw BUFR format, and then converted into a more readable form by my own python script.

It looks as Edinburgh is very quickly returning to being a place where it hardly ever rains anymore, even whilst plenty of rain is falling elsewhere.

2022 was a drier than average year here and then the first half of last year was also very dry.

If the latest model output is correct, it looks as though this year might be getting off to a very dry start here as well.
 

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January continuing this wet spell.

26.6mm.

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27.8mm

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43.4 mm so far this month and it’s still raining.

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