Well this spring is certainly starting off on a rather interesting note and in fact, this change to more unsettled conditions and a more Atlantic-driven regime is happening just as SEPA has now raised the water scarcity warning levels from medium to high in the NE of Scotland, and from low to medium here in SE Scotland due to the lack of winter rainfall according this latest report.
If the latest forecasts are right though, this could have the potential to end up being like the sort of situation where the Government appoints a Drought Secretary only for then to end up being such a massive deluge that there is now, no longer any need for any such measures to be taken.
However, it will be interesting now to see whether these forecasts do end up being right (although it will take some doing to properly make up that rainfall deficit which has built up since before last summer) and we do end up getting all of that much needed rainfall, or whether we actually just end up quickly going back to high pressure in the same manner in which has always been happening up until now (that is what the CFS is going for just now, although that is only really an outlier for now with very little support from the other models).
If this is the start of a pattern change towards a much wetter regime, I only hope that this then doesn't carry on into the summer and thus, provide us with a poor summer as a result. To me, it would just be like the thing if that was what ended up happening.
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.