Since we are in quite an unsettled spell of weather just now and since it isn't everyone who starts their own observation day for rainfall at 09:00 UTC every morning as I do, I thought that I might as well get this thread up and running right away as a number of members might even already have something to report for this month as a result, so this will give those members to report those observations right away.

Clearly, this month is likely to get off to an unsettled start and if some of the model outlook is correct which we have been sing, this could well end up being quite a wet month. However, there is a lot of uncertainty in the models at the moment (mainly due to the ongoing Atlantic season) and we can't forget that this autumn got off to a very dry start, so it is equally possible that this latest unsettled spell ends up being a blip before we return to high pressure once again.

Whichever way that ends up though, this is the very place to report those all important rainfall observations for your area. 

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Started the month here with 13mm from a fairly narrow band of heavy rain this morning clearing by lunchtime. Looks like a soaker tomo with double that forecast here

4.8mm to start the month

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The latest rainfall data for Edinburgh Gogarbank (shown as station 1 below) and the botanic gardens in Edinburgh (shown below as station 2) is as follows:

24 Hour Total up to 09:00 (10:00 BST) this morning: 5.4 mm at station 1, 2.6 mm at station 2

Total For This Month So Far: 5.4 mm (6.4 % of LTA) at station 1, 2.6 mm (3.4 % of LTA) at station 2
Number of Rain Days During This Month So Far: 1 (7.8 % of LTA) at station 1, 1 (8.1 % of LTA) at station 2
Number of Dry Days During  This Month So Far: 0 at station 1, 0 at station 2

Total For This Autumn So Far: 60.4 mm (27.9 % of LTA) at station 1, 58.6 mm (27.1 % of LTA) at station 2
Number of Rain Days During This Autumn So Far: 13 (35.9 % of LTA) at station 1, 12 (35.5 % of LTA) at station 2
Number of Dry Days During This Autumn So Far: 15 at station 1, 14 at station 2

Total Amount During This Year So Far: 550.2 mm (72.9 % of LTA) at station 1, 540.2 mm (76.7 % of LTA) at station 2
Number of Rain Days During This Year So Far: 89 (64.8 % of LTA) at station 1, 94 (75.7 % of LTA) at station 2
Number of Dry Days During This Year So Far: 142 at station 1, 139 at station 2

LTA = 1981-2010 average for the month, season or year in question at the particular station in question.

All of this data has been taken from SEPA with each observation day starting and ending on 09:00 UTC on each day.

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Yesterday   0.9 mm

Last Hour   3.3mm

Today         6.9mm

This Month  7.8mm. 

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13.5 mm Today, so far.

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16.2 mm today

 

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27mm today so far

30mm here today some places nearby over 40 abd a southerly gale late pm into this eve . Thoroughly awful day

14mm

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A ridiculous 22.2mm clocked up after just 2 days.

3.6mm on Friday, 18.6mm yesterday.  41.2mm in the past week and rolling 12-month total up to 913.4mm now 

October used to be a month where you could still expect to see some pleasant feeling days, particularly in the first third, but no more. It's the most awful, boring and depressing month of the year. Thoroughly miserable from the off.

Haven't had a properly dry October with less than 50mm since 2008 which is staggering. Prior to this hideous century it used to be expected about 1 year in 3. Clear from this disgusting start that 2021 will not be the October to break this stupefying run.

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18.6mm Yesterday

0.3m This morning

19.8mm This Month.

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A ridiculous 22.2mm clocked up after just 2 days.

3.6mm on Friday, 18.6mm yesterday.  41.2mm in the past week and rolling 12-month total up to 913.4mm now 

October used to be a month where you could still expect to see some pleasant feeling days, particularly in the first third, but no more. It's the most awful, boring and depressing month of the year. Thoroughly miserable from the off.

Haven't had a properly dry October with less than 50mm since 2008 which is staggering. Prior to this hideous century it used to be expected about 1 year in 3. Clear from this disgusting start that 2021 will not be the October to break this stupefying run.

In complete contrast to all of that, I can see this month being drier than average here in Edinburgh yet again.

We missed out on the deluge whuch everyone else had during yesterday (Edinburgh usually always misses out on any interesting weather which is around after all) with only a rather paltry 0.8 mm of rain being recorded at Edinburgh Gogarbank in the 24 hour period up to 10am BST (09:00 UTC) this morning along with 1.0 mm at the botanic gardens.in Edinburgh (not even enough to merit a full report here).

That brings this month's total up to 6.2 mm at Edinburgh Gogarbank and just 3.6 mm at the botanic gardens in Edinburgh.

When you can't even get a significant total out of a rainfall event which was as widespread UK-wide as what yesterday's event was, it is difficult to see any real hope of seeing any significant totals here at any time.

The latest forecasts show more low pressure moving in towards the middle of the week, but these latest forecasts show that bypassing this part of the world altogether. As a result and despite the more unsettled synsoptic setp which we are seeing just now, any rainfall which we get is likely to be just in the form of a few showers if we're lucky.

Beyond that, it is then likely that high pressure will build in yet again, thus taking us back into yet another UK-wide dry spell so when all of that is taken into consideration, I'm struggling to see where our next significant rainfall is actually going to come from, so this could end up being quite a substantially drier than average month here in the end as a result.

 

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A ridiculous 22.2mm clocked up after just 2 days.

3.6mm on Friday, 18.6mm yesterday.  41.2mm in the past week and rolling 12-month total up to 913.4mm now 

October used to be a month where you could still expect to see some pleasant feeling days, particularly in the first third, but no more. It's the most awful, boring and depressing month of the year. Thoroughly miserable from the off.

Haven't had a properly dry October with less than 50mm since 2008 which is staggering. Prior to this hideous century it used to be expected about 1 year in 3. Clear from this disgusting start that 2021 will not be the October to break this stupefying run.

 

We ha e already had 45 mm here in first 3 days  yesterday being a total washout . Does look like though Wednesday onward some pleasant warm October weather  and dry  maybe for a week or so 

http://www.winchesterweather.org.uk/historic_data.html  recorded over 110mm in the six days from 27th September to 2nd October. Not necessarily representative of a wider area - there were some intense downpours in isolated areas, including at this site - but certainly reflective of a huge swing in the weather this last week. Before the 27th, September had recorded only 12mm following an average August (58mm).

October to date (from the same site) is currently at 55.6mm.

http://www.winchesterweather.org.uk/historic_data.html  recorded over 110mm in the six days from 27th September to 2nd October. Not necessarily representative of a wider area - there were some intense downpours in isolated areas, including at this site - but certainly reflective of a huge swing in the weather this last week. Before the 27th, September had recorded only 12mm following an average August (58mm).

October to date (from the same site) is currently at 55.6mm.

 

Yes some sizeable variations around here too in view if the at times local abd intense nature of the downpours .. today is the 3rd day out of  the 4 this month that over half an inch of rain has been recorded here and looks certain that tomorrow will be another one .  55mm so far  

Heavy downpour at the moment . 8 mm to add to whatever my total is..

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Yes some sizeable variations around here too in view if the at times local abd intense nature of the downpours .. today is the 3rd day out of  the 4 this month that over half an inch of rain has been recorded here and looks certain that tomorrow will be another one .  55mm so far  

The Winchester site (about 3 miles from me) is now showing 66mm for the month after further downpours today. Expecting that to be significantly higher by first light tomorrow....

What a nice squalline that looks to be setting up tonight

Only 6.3mm overnight. Checking wunderground, that's quite typical for the Reading/Wokingham area, but many places had much more; apparently over 30mm in Central London with floods.

Monthly total now up to 35.4mm, not far off September's 42.6mm. We've had 64.8mm in the last 9 days.

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