Record rain can happen at any point in the autumn or winter in UK
By Paul Homewood
Before anybody gets carried away with claims of “record rainfall” that we keep hearing about in the UK, let’s consider the facts.
In the UK as a whole, January was only tie 17th wettest month since 1910, with 183.8mm.
Relatively speaking, last month was wetter in England & Wales, but even there it was only the 16th wettest month, on the England & Wales Series, dating back to 1766 . Last month recorded 184.6mm, well short of the wettest month on record, October 1903, which had 218.1mm.
The table below lists the wettest months on the England & Wales series.
| Month | Precipitation mm |
| Oct 1903 | 218.1 |
| Nov 1852 | 202.5 |
| Nov 1770 | 200.8 |
| Nov 1940 | 196.5 |
| Dec 1876 | 193.9 |
| Aug 1912 | 192.9 |
| Aug 1799 | 192.1 |
| Nov 2009 | 192.1 |
| Dec 1914 | 190.8 |
| Sep 1918 | 189.5 |
| Oct 2000 | 188.0 |
| Sep 1799 | 186.8 |
| Dec 1868 | 185.6 |
| Sep 1797 | 185.4 |
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Very nice!
Sadly, the green metro-elites don’t do history any longer, so they wouldn’t know nor care about these dates. They’re soo last century!
Their ‘history’ doesn’t go further back than last week – else they’d at least ask how come the Met Office ‘predicted’ a slightly drier Dec/Jan/Feb, a prediction not published, seeing that they got it so wrong so many times. It is on a par with their prediction of a mild winter – and then we got snow from late October to February in 2011, or with the one in 2012 when they forecast a very dry summer with hosepipe bans – and we had a lovely wash-out instead.
Funny that no government minister is asking them why they always get it so wrong?
So the cargo cult science Climate brigade state that the current damp spell in the UK is a sign of CO2 driven climate change. But history shows that this sort of weather has happened many time before in years when CO2 levels were low, so what they have actually done is disprove their own hypothesis by making this stupid claim.
If you want to observe, in ‘real time’, the complexity of our intransigent dynamic climate system then have a look at the incredible interactive map below, and learn…
http://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/isobaric/1000hPa/overlay=total_cloud_water/orthographic=-5.01,51.93,1024
Another attempt to put a bit of sanity back into climate issues from Dr Roy Spencer.
‘How much weather is being caused by climate change? Maybe 1 part in 1,000.’
http://www.drroyspencer.com/2014/02/how-much-weather-is-being-caused-by-climate-change-maybe-1-part-in-1000/
Now that warmist propaganda seems almost entirely based on the latest weather events we can look forward (?) to ever more ludicrous headlines in the MSM of the ‘what if’ – ‘could it be’ – ‘how do we know it isn’t’ variety.