A Century Of UK/NI Rainfall (part 5)

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

In part 4 of this series I promised to check NOAA’s data records for the venerable observatory at Oxford. After a somewhat sobering Turkish coffee of some strength and a plate of freshly plucked figs I decided, in my sugar-laden hyper-state, to abandon NOAA’s miserable attempts and look at the UK Met Office’s records for the UK. That sure made more sens…