This is all showing once again that it just doesn't rain here any more like it used to and as we didn't even get any of the overnight rain which was promised in the forecasts, we still continue to have no recorded rainfall here in Edinburgh during this month so far.
Furthermore, the charts which you have linked to are currently showing that even on Friday, it is only just Wales and the south of England along with perhaps the SE corner of Northern Ireland which gets any rain at all with the rest of the UK continuing to get absolutely nothing in that regard.
The southerners on this forum always moan about rainfall deficits in their area being difficult to make up but the actually reality is that they actually have nothing to moan about in that regard because going forward, that is probably where the largest bulk of our future rainfall is going to end up falling on average.
Even the statistics over the last few years, months and seasons are already showing that really well because I've now lost track of the number of months, seasons and years in which it has been the southern half of the UK which has had the most amount of rain due to a southwards shift in the jet stream for much of the time, and an increase in the number of secondary lows passing to our south even when that isn't the case and yet all of that is something which the southerners seem to forget when they're moaning about rainfall deficits in their area.
This doesn't mean that we won't continue to see the wet weather affect mostly the north of the UK at times but even when that happens, it is generally the west of Scotland and possibly England which gets the biggest brunt of that with a lot of that influence being lost as that wet weather approaches locations such as here in SE Scotland in particular.
This means that if there is a location where people need to worry about future water shortages from a lack of rainfall, it is really here in SE Scotland because I can only see our climate becoming more arid and desert-like on average in the future as a result.
Putting all of that together, the whole concept of a wetter north/drier south is clearly increasingly becoming something from the past which is eventually no longer going be the case and because of that, forecasts need to stop referring to that as being the average scenario and start to look at that in terms of what lies ahead in the future which is clearly going to be completely different from that.
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.