BBCNEWS Weather World June 4, 2024 12:50:00
This is a uk national rainfall series and there is natural variability in the weather from one year to another so the line goes up and down but what we have done is we have put a trend line through the data. you can see there are fluctuations in the data but what we can see most apparent towards the end of the data is this increase in rainfall and that is as we expect, as the climate gets warmer, it gets wetter. in 2022 the met office was able to extend the uk official rainfall record back even further, an extra 26 years back to 1836, after thousands of volunteers help to digitise millions of ...