BBCNEWS Weather World June 4, 2024 10:49:00
How we take the observations from a network of 2000 rain gauges across the uk, we interpolate the data into a gridded data set and we make this map of rainfall on the 3rd of october for example, the wettest day on record with 30.1 millimetres. that statistic is basically an average across the uk but when we do the maths on that, 30.1 millimetres comes up as 7.6 cubic kilometres, approximately enough rain to fill loch ness so quite a remarkable amount! once we had the system for knowing how much rain falls across the uk talk me about this one which goes back 180 years and how has rainfall chang...