A Century Of UK/NI Rainfall (part 3)

A butcher's at drought and deluge over the last 100 years. Are things getting worse, and what does ‘worse’ even mean?

You’d think by now that I’d be able to get my crayons out and at least draw a chart of mean UK/NI rainfall since the turn of the last century. We’ve got naughty NOAA to thank for that; plus, just when I thought I’d cracked the problem with the wonky rainfall record at Armagh (whose historic data series is significant on a global scale), along comes an e…