Final total for the month of 135.8mm

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130.6mm for the month..

1022.5mm for the year.

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Final total for December here is 110.5mm (208% average).   The 2nd wettest December in the last 40 years here, behind Dec 2012 with 112mm.

The Year total here for 2023 is 870mm (145% average).  The second wettest year I've recorded, again only 2012 ahead of this with 979mm.

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181.0mm recorded on my weather station, but it was almost certainly over 200mm.

Both July and December recorded over 200mm of rain where I am in 2023. It was a remarkably wet second half of the year.

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Ended up with 80.7mm of rain in Watford

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A breathtakingly awful total of 232.8mm here compared to an average of 70mm 🤢

Only 1876 was wetter when 238mm was recorded at the obervatory in Old Aberdeen. The total of 537.4mm for the final quarter would appear to be a record 🤢

Annual total reached a preposterous 1118.4mm and the only unequivocally wetter year on record was 1872.

A full list of all the other years when 1000mm was recorded within the city boundaries

1872: 1238 (Seafield Cottage), 1101 (Old Aberdeen)
1923: 1122 (Craibstone), 1081 (Parkhill House), 1079 (Cranford House)
2002: 1089 (Dyce)
1877: 1064 (Grammar School), 1034 (Old Aberdeen)
1984: 1055 (Craigiebuckler), 1054 (Dyce)
1903: 1016 (Cranford House)
1951: 1013 (Craibstone)
1924: 1012 (Cranford House), 1005 (Craibstone)
1876: 1003 (Grammar School)

🤢🤢🤢

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The flood map says it all, virtually every river valley in England and Wales picked out in red to show varying degrees of flood warning https://www.floodalerts.com/ 

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At the end of 2023, SEPA produced a report which has officially their latest water scarcity report, but which was only actually titled as a water situation report as that only really went into how the river levels and groundwater levels were faring at the end of last autumn.

Water scarcity was quite a major thing during the first half of 2023 in particular, but a much wetter second half of 2023 means that river levels and groundwater levels were either average or higher than average, especially across the east of Scotland at the time of that report, and will probably now be even higher still after what was a very wet December here.

In some parts of the east of Scotland, these were actually very high at the time of that report although parts of the west of Scotland still had quite low river and groundwater levels as these areas have still been a bit drier than average recently.

The next such report is now due to be released at the end of the winter to see what the situation is like as we then head into the spring and summer months.


 

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