A Century Of UK/NI Rainfall (part 2)
A butcher's at drought and deluge over the last 100 years. Are things getting worse, and what does ‘worse’ even mean?
In part 1 of this series we looked at rainfall records for 13 UK weather stations that have been collecting data since the turn of the last century. To obtain these I interrogated the Global Historical Climatology Network Daily database (GHCNd) using KNMI Climate Explorer. We discovered strange patterns of missing data with the weather stations at Armagh