One incredible statistic which I have noticed is that with just two left of this month as I write, there has been less sunshine at Edinburgh Gogarbank during this month than what there was back in March and any of the spring months. It is true that we had an exceptionally sunny spring, but March wasn't sunnier than average by very much and until now, we haven't even been able to beat the total for back then, during this month.
That therefore makes this month, our third dullest month of this entire year so far with only the two preceding winter months with the lowest amounts of available daylight, having less sunshine than what we have during this month. Of course, it may not necessarily end up that way in the end, but we have just passed the summer solstice so that we are in the month which has the highest amount of available daylight hours.
That means that for this month to have had so little in the way of sunshine is just ridiculous, especially since the total for March is now the only total which we can now beat, during these last two days of this month (and I wouldn't put it past our weather, for that to end up not happening). At the same time, it's not as though it's been all that wet here either and indeed, it's been nowhere near as wet here during this month, as what it was during last year.
This month hasn't been as exceptionally dry here either, and it certainly hasn't been anywhere near as dry as what all of the spring months were, especially during April. Indeed, this month has been a bit wetter than average in terms of the number of official rain days here, but the actual rainfall amounts just haven't been able to catch up with that and with just 2 days left of this month, our rainfall totals are struggling really badly, to even reach our appropriate 1981-2010 June averages for that.
In fact, this summer is reminding me quite a lot of what happened in 2016 when just about everywhere else was wetter than average during that summer (at least, here in Scotland), but with our rainfall totals being no more or less than around average during all of those summer months. Now, it is true that Edinburgh is the driest city on average out of Scotland's four major cities (those in order of population and size being Glasgow, Edinburgh, Aberdeen and Dundee).
However, it is the rainfall anomalies which I am comparing here, and not the actual rainfall amounts. Because of that, our 1981-81 averages for rainfall here in Edinburgh are always going to be that bit lower than they are in the other Scottish cities as a result of it being the driest out of those for cities on average. Yet in spite of that, we are still managing to get no more than average rainfall during this month at a time when just everywhere else has been wetter than average.
I don't want to get into any arguments with Richard from Aberdeen about who has the most boring and uninteresting weather overall, but that that very fact that I have just mentions, surely has to demonstrate that we just don't get interesting weather here any more in the same way that everywhere else still does. Even those recent thunderstorms still showed that up to be the case because although I was able to hear that thunder in the distance, the bottom line is that they still missed here because for them to have not done so, would have been asking for too much.
Furthermore, this isn't even been a month which deserves to be anything other than wetter than average, as there been so many occasions during this month when there has been plentiful rainfall nearby that has just refused to fall here, that it has just been unbelievable. However, that is why it is often better to go by the number of official rain days rather than actual rainfall amounts, and it is only right that we have come out above average during this month on that score.
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28 June 2020 23:08:04
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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.