IMBY January total 143.7mm

Final total 213.2mm.

Some selected rainfall totals for January with % of mean figures where available.

Many parts of Southern England have seen close to 300% of mean rainfall in January

Valentia 289.3mm (167%)
Bournemouth Hurn 247.0mm (290%)
Heathrow 165.4mm (299%)
Kenley 235.6mm (293%)
Odiham 230.4mm (296%)
Dunkeswell 252.8mm (225%)
Shap Fell 320.4mm (139%)
Aboyne 187.0mm (282%)
Tulloch Bridge 326.2mm

My final total was 154.2mm

Well, January finished with a flourish. Down the road in Fleet, another 24.4mm brought the total up to a massive 208.4mm, the wettest month on record since this station started recording in 1997.

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/chrismac/

There seems to have been notably less rain north of the M3, evidenced by the difference between Odiham and Chineham (about 6 miles apart) as posted by Global Warming.

My nearest unofficial weather station in Wokingham (as reported on uk.sci.weather) got the following:

So the wettest January in over 130 years...

Unlike areas to our north that have had below average rainfall, and areas to our south that have had higher than average, we on Skye are pretty much bang on for a typical Jan (though the Jan average for Skye is wide, anything from just under 100mm to 500mm in the mountains):

Portree: 168.9mm

Shulista: 79.8mm

152.6mm the final total here which is 249% of average and my 2nd wettest month after October 2009. Measurable rainfall on 25 days Only 31.6mm fell up to the 16th which meant that 121.0mm fell from the 17th to 31st which is 407% of average for that period 

2nd wettest January locally since records began in 1856. Only January 1937 was wetter with 177mm at Craibstone but there was a heavy snowfall in the last week so never before have we had such a large total made up of rain only. Truly awful

Actually Darren the difference is likely to be down to the siting of the rain gauges. My figure of 154.2mm is from my VP2 where the rain gauge is sited slightly higher than the thermometer as it is an integrated unit with the rain gauge above the thermometer housing (i.e. nearly 5 feet off the ground).

I have another manual rain gauge sited 30cm off the ground and that recorded a whopping 218.9mm in January. It is very common for the gauge near the ground to record a higher figure (often 40% more), particularly in stormy conditions where the gauge at height gets much less rain due to the greater effect of swirling winds and other factors.

Its easily the wettest month I have recorded since 1982 here in Watford with my final total of 143.4mm of rain with yesterday's total of 17.7mm. Yesterday's total was the highest daily total in the last 12 months.

96.8mm is the final total.

Wareham,Dorset finished January with a wopping 208.4mm.

Couple January with December we`ve had nearly 15ins of rain this winter so far!

Had an incessant deluge here, monthly total being 248.1mm. That combined with December's 282.7mm has given us over half our annual rainfall in two months.

a soaked Symon

Final total is 84.5mm; from what I can find on the internet, the average is just 45mm for Congleton in January!

My final January total is 107mm, more than double the average for here.

It's the second wettest January I've recorded in 32 years - the wettest being Jan 2008 with 139mm.

It would be good to see the list of these Januarys. From what Philip Eden said in todays Tele it implies we broke or almost broke a 200 year plus rainfall record.

It was an incredible January this year.

Looking at the final regional totals both South-East England and South West England / Wales broke their records for January. The series goes back as far as 1873

South-East England total 179mm which is 255% of the long run mean (smashing the previous record of 146mm in 1877)

South-West England & Wales total 231mm which is 201% of the long run mean (previous record 224mm 1988)

The EWP series goes back to 1766 so it is the wettest January across England and Wales as a whole for at least 248 years.

Quite amazing really. I'd love to see the list of England and Wales Januarys in reverse order going from the driest to the wettest.

Here is the monthly weather report for January 1948 which up until this year held the record for the wettest January

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/media/pdf/o/0/Jan1948.pdf

Ok so here is the full list of the EWP rainfall for January since 1766

Interestingly the first year in the series way back in 1766 was easily the driest

I recorded 174mm in W Northants. Easily the wettest January I've recorded since 1993.

My rain gage is broken but a new one it on the way.

Its been very wet thats for sure!

Over 100mm's est.

Cheers Simon - Excellent stuff there. Is this information available online. I tried looking the likes of this up - but couldn't find anything like this.