A Century Of UK/NI Rainfall (part 6)

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

In part 5 of this series I promised to stop farting about and get to producing a slide of monthly mean rainfall for the UK since the turn of the last century for what I’m calling the ‘big five’ (a.k.a. UK5 or Les Cinq), these being stations at Armagh, Oxford, Stornoway Airport, Durham and Sheffield who have put their buckets out continuously since 1883. Not many weather stations on the surface of the Earth have collected rainfall data as diligently as this for this length of time and so we may call them stations of global significance. You can grab the data for yourself from here.

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