This might have something to do with why it''s been so wet here:
SE flows are just exceptionally wet here - the wettest direction by far. Moray is obviously sheltered from a SE flow so the east coast bears the full brunt of it. The first half of the winter was more SW dominated and I only had 89.8mm up to 14th January but have had 215mm since then.
January/February will be the wettest on record here beating 1994, which itself was some way above the next wettest (1883).
However due to the dry first three weeks of December the winter will only end up as 6th wettest in 158 years with the wetter winters being:
1876/77, 1882/83, 1993/94, 1899/1900, 1914/15
The wettest two had over 400mm and the other three over 360mm which is not likely to be reached this year. Dyce has recorded about 330mm so far which is about 25mm ahead of my more sheltered location.
This winter has been more consistently awful than any of those though. There have been no extreme rainfall events, that wouldn't normally be expected, it has just been persistently wet but with no rain total over 25mm and no snow contribution at all.
1989/90 and 1994/95 were dry here due to being dominated by SW'lys rather than vile SE'lys as a result of the southerly tracking lows this winter.
Originally Posted by: richardabdn