January 1948 is the wettest January on record for England and Wales in the 1772 series with 176.8mm.

It was unsurprisingly a cyclonic month.



Rainfall totals in inches.

Camden Square 3.61 194%
Folkestone 3.87 172%
Worthing 4.74 203%
Fordingbridge 5.75 208%
Slough 4.09 220%
Oxford 5.01 277%
Shoeburyness 2.71 201%
Lowestoft 3.69 264%
Teignmouth 6.59 226%
St Austell 9.45 221%
Cirencester 5.09 203%
Leek 5.74 199%
Edgbaston 4.52 224%
Boston 3.76 232%
Manchester 7.37 294%
York 4.73 267%
Scarborough 4.56 228%
Middlesbrough 5.48 342%
Newcastle 8.01 404%
Keswick 9.63 191%

Wales
Abergavenny 8.51 252%
Cardiff 8.56 232%
Aberystwyth 5.13 159%
Blaenau Festiniog 24.07 235%
Llandudno 5.80 241%


Scotland
Dumfries 7.43 231%
Eskdalemuir 10.24 190%
Edinburgh 5.27 299%
Colomonell 7.40 171%
Islay 8.22 176%
Tiree 6.57 155%
Crieff 5.31 133%
Montrose 3.85 193%
Dyce 4.70 199%
Fort William 7.95 82%
Ullapool 4.81 108%
Lairg 5.58 170%
Wick 3.95 161%
Lerwick 4.79 112%

Northern Ireland
Armagh 6.72 267%
Aldergrove 5.61 205%
Londonderry 5.86 163%
Omagh 5.20 147%

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The high totals on the NE coast e.g. 8" in Newcastle suggest a near stationary low and onshore wind at some point.

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Could Jan 2014 topple that record??

Here in Wareham we have had,so far, 161mm with more to come tomorrow onwards

But where are we so far nationally - There is 1 week to go.

 

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I have been posting updates in the January precipitation thread

Wettest Januaries on record for England and Wales
176.8 1948
169.0 1988
162.6 1995
160.3 1928
156.2 1939
149.8 1834
149.3 1984
147.1 1943
146.8 1877
144.9 2008
140.2 1872
136.6 1852
135.7 1906
134.3 1809
131.0 1994
129.0 1937
128.8 1804
128.6 1999
128.6 1806
128.4 1990
127.6 1986
125.3 1960
125.1 1930
124.4 1936
124.4 1913
124.2 1975
124.3 1791
122.8 1875
122.7 2004
122.7 1828
122.4 1919
121. 2014 up to 21st

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So could be top ten, probably not top five.

More eastern areas really haven't been that wet, for example here we are still (just) below 100mm.
2008 was 151mm, we won't reach that in a week, average is about 80mm.
It's a similar story down through Lincs at least.

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Yes the rain has really been concentrated in the south and west. These maps show the picture well:

https://twitter.com/DaveThroupEA/status/426425275925004288/photo/1 

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How do the totals for December + January stack up.  My totals are 175.8mm for December 2013 and even locally, this was exceeded, 144.6mm for January, thus far.

 

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