Wettest winters on record for England and Wales
426.8 2013-14 up to 20th February
423.0 1914-15

Wettest seasons on record for England and Wales: W for winter, S for summer, A for autumn
A 502.7 2000
A 455.8 1852
A 438.6 1960
W 426.8 2013-14

Wettest February on record for England and Wales (mm)
158.6 1833
152.7 1923
143.6 1950
143.2 1990
143.2 1977
142.1 1937
132.0 1916
131.7 1900
130.0 1848
129.6 1966
129.1 1768
124.2 1925
123.5 1915
116.0 1918
115.3 1812
115.1 2002
114.9 1995
114.1 1851
114.0 1823
113.5 1776
112.1 1904
111.6 2007
109.1 1881
109. 2014 up to 20th February

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I wonder where we'll end up for totals - we've crossed the line OK still with 6 days to go.

 

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Wettest winters on record for England and Wales
427.8 2013-14 up to 21st February
423.0 1914-15

Wettest seasons on record for England and Wales: W for winter, S for summer, A for autumn
A 502.7 2000
A 455.8 1852
A 438.6 1960
W 427.8 2013-14

Wettest February on record for England and Wales (mm)
158.6 1833
152.7 1923
143.6 1950
143.2 1990
143.2 1977
142.1 1937
132.0 1916
131.7 1900
130.0 1848
129.6 1966
129.1 1768
124.2 1925
123.5 1915
116.0 1918
115.3 1812
115.1 2002
114.9 1995
114.1 1851
114.0 1823
113.5 1776
112.1 1904
111.6 2007
110. 2014 up to 21st February

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Agreed. I don't think this is an example of London/SE centricity. Which area has been in the news for weeks and weeks now? The Somerset Levels, that's where and last time I checked that was nowhere near London.

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Haha, but joking aside it hasn't struck me as having been a particualrly wet winter up here. I don't take rainfall readings but my overall impression is only a little above average (as the map suggests). Much more significant has been the sheer relentlessness of unsettled conditions, rather than a particualrly high total. 

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It would be interesting if we managed another 20 mm for February. Can't see us getting any more than that. That would put us in the top 10 wettest Februaries on record.

I would guess 20mm is the most we might see this last 5 days.

 

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The rainfall distribution over the South of the UK seems strange. My take on the general pattern is as follows:
We saw a procession of deep lows heading in towards Ireland. On their southern flank relatively low heights which were sourced from the freeze on the eastern seaboard were pulled in quickly by the vigourous circulations. At the same time the cold air was quickly being mixed out. Temperature differentials between SSTs and 850s were generally much greater than normal for a RPM airmass due to the speed of approach of the cold air and the low starting temperatures in America. This caused a lot of convection and minor troughing over the South of the UK. Also this tended to top up the troughs which often got stuck over the South East due to blocking to the east.
The problem is that with the convective factor you would expect there to be an orographic correlation. The west of Dartmoor appears drier than South East Devon for instance and the west of the Brecon beacons and Exmoor show similar oddities.
Any ideas anybody, I think I'm going back to the drawing board!

That's nearly as much as we get here in a year!

Don't have an exact figure, but DJF rainfall so far for me is ~250mm - similar to July 2007.

 

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Aye, Aberdeen is nowhere near London

I wonder why it's been so much wetter there than anywhere else in Scotland?   Especially since, in theory, it's in the rain shadow of the Highlands.

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Tight little circulations on a southern trajectory, through the Channel or northern France, giving a high incidence of SE flows into the Aberdeen coast. Would this also be the reason for the drier pattern to the west in the Devon area?

Edit - the areas with the big percentages are normally drier, being in prevailing rain shadow - change from that will show as much greater anomaly than areas that are normally wet in classic W/SW zonality.

It's not in a rain shadow from the Highlands when the wind is coming in from the North Sea 😝

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Wettest winters on record for England and Wales
428.8 2013-14 up to 21st February
423.0 1914-15

Wettest seasons on record for England and Wales: W for winter, S for summer, A for autumn
A 502.7 2000
A 455.8 1852
A 438.6 1960
W 428.8 2013-14

Wettest February on record for England and Wales (mm)
158.6 1833
152.7 1923
143.6 1950
143.2 1990
143.2 1977
142.1 1937
132.0 1916
131.7 1900
130.0 1848
129.6 1966
129.1 1768
124.2 1925
123.5 1915
116.0 1918
115.3 1812
115.1 2002
114.9 1995
114.1 1851
114.0 1823
113.5 1776
112.1 1904
111.6 2007
111. 2014 up to 22nd February

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Wettest winters on record for England and Wales
430.8 2013-14 up to 23rd February
423.0 1914-15

Wettest seasons on record for England and Wales: W for winter, S for summer, A for autumn
A 502.7 2000
A 455.8 1852
A 438.6 1960
W 430.8 2013-14

Wettest February on record for England and Wales (mm)
158.6 1833
152.7 1923
143.6 1950
143.2 1990
143.2 1977
142.1 1937
132.0 1916
131.7 1900
130.0 1848
129.6 1966
129.1 1768
124.2 1925
123.5 1915
116.0 1918
115.3 1812
115.1 2002
114.9 1995
114.1 1851
114.0 1823
113.5 1776
113. 2014. Up to 23rd February

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Here's a grim stat, the total from 12th December to now has exceeded the old record of 1914-15. 12th December is when it all started.

12th December to 11th March is going to be an interesting total, this is the same length of time as a meteorological winter except in leap years.

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As Duane posted earlier in the thread, although winter has been wet here, it hasn't been anything unusual and certainly not record breaking.  We've had floods in previous years, but not this year.

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With 2 secondary lows possibly lining up to move across the south on Friday and Saturday the rainfall(even wet snow) will not be welcome once again.

Its been the wettest weather I've seen in my lifetime this winter

Wettest winters on record for England and Wales
434.8 2013-14 up to 24th February
423.0 1914-15

Wettest seasons on record for England and Wales: W for winter, S for summer, A for autumn
A 502.7 2000
A 455.8 1852
A 438.6 1960
W 434.8 2013-14

Wettest February on record for England and Wales (mm)
158.6 1833
152.7 1923
143.6 1950
143.2 1990
143.2 1977
142.1 1937
132.0 1916
131.7 1900
130.0 1848
129.6 1966
129.1 1768
124.2 1925
123.5 1915
117. 2014 up to 24th February

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Wettest winters on record for England and Wales
436.8 2013-14 up to 25th February
423.0 1914-15

Wettest seasons on record for England and Wales: W for winter, S for summer, A for autumn
A 502.7 2000
A 455.8 1852
A 438.6 1960
W 436.8 2013-14

Wettest February on record for England and Wales (mm)
158.6 1833
152.7 1923
143.6 1950
143.2 1990
143.2 1977
142.1 1937
132.0 1916
131.7 1900
130.0 1848
129.6 1966
129.1 1768
124.2 1925
123.5 1915
119. 2014 up to 25th February

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It's been the worst winter I can recall for incessant unsettled, wet weather. Many recent winters I can remember which have been dominated by unsettled weather from the atlantic have at least had a couple of lulls in that pattern from time to time. This winter though, just endless rain.

In some ways it's been like the dreadful weather of 2012 revisited.

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Amazing this winter has turned out to be.

So this February is now in top 15 for wetness.

 

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It's the distribution which is different.
Basically the south has had rain which would be a fairly normal winter in NW Scotland 

Here has been not that much above average with first half of December and second half of Feb not really wet at all - but between that made up for it.
2013 was about 200mm down on the average but we have caught up now.

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Exactly - a point I've made several times so far this year. Much of the southern half of NW England at least has had no more than average rainfall

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We have had less than average over the whole winter, it's the wind that has been the main feature for me this winter

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You are going to find that records at the national especially when it comes to high levels of precipitation are never uniform.

I posted a map of the wettest month on record for England and Wales, October 1903 but for east Anglia, August 1912 was wetter than this.

It should come as no surprise you are going to get regional variations. It's the fact that despite the regional variations, the record was broken.

You are going to find that with many if not all rainfall records when it comes to wetness.

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Wettest winters on record for England and Wales
443.8 2013-14 up to 26th February
423.0 1914-15

Wettest seasons on record for England and Wales: W for winter, S for summer, A for autumn
A 502.7 2000
A 455.8 1852
W 443.8 2013-14

Wettest February on record for England and Wales (mm)
158.6 1833
152.7 1923
143.6 1950
143.2 1990
143.2 1977
142.1 1937
132.0 1916
131.7 1900
130.0 1848
129.6 1966
129.1 1768
126. Up to 26th February

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