Now that we have just entered another new month, I can now confirm that the final total for August comes out as 136.2 mm at Edinburgh Gogarbank and 142.4 mm at the botanic gardens in Edinburgh.
For Edinburgh Gogarbank, this is 200.9% of the 1981-2010 average for that station whilst the botanic gardens in Edinburgh had 236.5% of its 1981-2010 average rainfall during August.
Overall, this shows that August was not only substantially wetter than average at both of those stations in terms of the actual rainfall amounts, but was also the wettest August since 2008 at Edinburgh Gogarbank as well as the wettest August since 2011 at the botanic gardens in Edinburgh.
In addition to that, Edinburgh Gogarbank had 15 official rain days during August and this shows that it was wetter than average there overall in terms of the number of official rain days since that amounts to 133.9% of the 1981-2010 average.
In addition to that, the botanic gardens in Edinburgh also had 15 official rain days during August with that amounting to 154.6% of the 1981-2010 average, thus making August a substantially wetter than average month there overall in terms of the number of official rain days.
Since we have also just entered a new season, I can also confirm that the final total for this summer was 327.6 mm at Edinburgh Gogarbank and 315.0 mm at the botanic gardens in Edinburgh.
For Edinburgh Gogarbank, this was 193.4% of the 1981-2010 average whilst the botanic gardens in Edinburgh had 186.5% of its 1981-2010 average rainfall during this summer.
This was therefore, a substantially wetter than average summer at both of those stations in terms of the actual rainfall amounts.
In addition to that, Edinburgh Gogarbank had 38 official rain days during this summer which was 119.5% of the 1981-2010 average whereas the botanic gardens in Edinburgh had 41 official rain days during this summer which was 142.4% of the 1981-2010 average.
This was therefore, also a substantially wetter than average summer in terms of the number of official rain days at both of those stations.
Finally, I can also confirm that during 2019 so far, Edinburgh Gogarbank has had a total of 557.4 mm of rain as at midnight going into 1 September 2019 which is 73.9% of the 1981-2010 average, whilst the botanic gardens in Edinburgh has had a total of 529.0 mm of rain during 2019 so far as at midnight going into 1 September 2019, which is 75.1% of the 1981-2010 average.
In addition to that, Edinburgh Gogarbank has had 86 official rain days so far during 2019 as at midnight going into 1 September 2019 which is 62.6% of the 1981-2010 average whereas the botanic gardens in Edinburgh has had 85 official rain days during 2019 so far at at midnight going into 1 September 2019 which is 68.4% of the 1981-2010 average.
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.