I've just been looking back at this summer's statistics for sunshine and what I have discovered shows just bad this month has really been. Given that June and July were sunnier than average, you would have then as a result, have expected it to be just a formality that the summer as a whole would have been sunnier than average as well even with this month being relatively poor with below average sunshine totals because we would have expected those two earlier months to have carried this summer through.
Yet, we now have just four days to go until the end of this month and the end of the meteorological summer. Clearly, this month is going to go down as being substantially duller than average and indeed, it is now no longer mathematically possible for there to be any other outcome. The result of this is that this month will now go down as being duller than average regardless of what happens now over the last four days or so.
However, this last few days of the month are going to be important in terms of what the summer as a whole will be like because it turns out that the sunshine total at Edinburgh Gogarbank as at 10am this morning for the summer as a while, is still 2.2 hours short of the 1981-2010 summer average. With the amount of time which is still to, we shouldn't haven't problems with getting that. Yet, this should not be proving to be such a struggle to get as it is turning out to be after such a sunny first two months of this summer.
The fact that we are struggling so badly to get over that finishing line in terms of just getting an average amount of sunshine for the summer as a whole, shows just how poor and dismal a month, this has been from a sunshine point of view. Added to that is the fact that all but one of the five completely sunless days which we have had during this summer so far, have all occurred during this month and in fact, the number of sunless days which we have had during this month is actually no less than what we had back in February.
As I write, it has clouded over yet again and given how this month has gone, it wouldn't even surprise me in the slightest if we actually failed to get those 2.2 hours of sunshine which are still needed for us to have had at least an average amount of sunshine during this summer as a whole, and that would just be typical of how this month has gone.
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.