Despite how wet it has been, the word "gale" has been notably absent in local forecast this autumn.
True, and that plays a huge part in what has made this, our most boring autumn on record in my view.
By that, I don't mean that this autumn has been boring everywhere and indeed, this autumn has been far more interesting across the rest of the UK than what it has been here in Edinburgh and the reason for that is simply due to the fact that we haven't had the excessive flooding rains which locations much further to the south of here has experienced.
That of course, doesn't mean that I want to be flooded out (we had our share of that during the summer after all). However, more "interesting" weather doesn't necessarily have to be the sort of weather in which I actually want to see and so although I wouldn't want to flooded out, the fact that this has happened in other parts of the UK is what has made the weather in those locations more "interesting" than what it has been here.
Meanwhile, our weather here in Edinburgh has been more mundane and boring in comparison as we have been almost constantly bombarded with yet more constant grey skies without anything which is even remotely interesting in terms of our weather actually happening, and that is where my gripe lies because although it can be interesting to see what the weather is like elsewhere (at least, that's how Caz would probably view that), I shouldn't have to be constantly relying on what the weather is like elsewhere in order for that to then be my only source of interest as far as our weather is concerned.
That in turn, is compounded by the lack of gales during this autumn, which has been a common feature throughout the UK this autumn. It is easy to forget that it was back in early September that the Met Office in conjunction with the Irish and Dutch Met services announced their list of storm names for this autumn/winter season and yet almost three months later, there are still no signs on the latest model output of the first such named storm under this system actually appearing on the scene.
Normally by now, we would have had around a couple of those named storms on average and when they do appear on the scene, they do result in me being that bit more interested in our weather even if the effects of these storms are actually being felt elsewhere other than here. For that reason, I just don't feel that this autumn has felt the same in any way without those named storms and what makes this even more remarkable is that fact that even during the Beast from the East events in February/March 2018, there was Storm Emma which dumped a lot of snow onto SW England which as a result of that, caused that part of the world to come under a similar sort of red weather warning which we were under here in Edinburgh at that time due to the more convective snowfalls which kept piling in from off the North Sea at that time.
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22 November 2019 08:23:31
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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.