This morning's rain cleared away quite quickly and for a while, the weather actually became not too bad as the Sun came out. However, that only lasted until those thunderstorms moved in later on which I have gone more into on the convection thread. That has all cleared away now though, although there is still quite a lot of cloud around.
The end result of this is that a total of just 1.3 hours of sunshine has been recorded for today so far at Edinburgh Gogarbank as at 7pm this evening with nothing at all in that department since 4pm this afternoon.
However, it is the rainfall which has created today's headlines here because thanks to those thunderstorms, a staggering 37.6 mm of rain has been recorded just for today alone, as at 7pm this evening along with 28.8 mm at the botanic gardens in Edinburgh.
That makes today, the wettest day of this year so far at the botanic gardens in Edinburgh, but only the second wettest day of this year so far at Edinburgh Gogarbank. The fact that today wasn't the actual wettest day of the year so far at Edinburgh Gogarbank shows just how impactful, that first major thunderstorm event was which we had back in June because in most years, today's total at Edinburgh Gogarbank would normally have been enough to make this the wettest day of the year quite easily.
Even with all of that going on though, today was still fairly warm with a maximum temperature of 21.3°C at Edinburgh Gogarbank, and the temperature at 8pm this evening was around 15°C here.
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.