A Century Of UK/NI Rainfall (part 7)
A butcher's at drought and deluge over the last 100 years. Are things getting worse, and what does ‘worse’ even mean?
In part 6 of this series I finally got to producing a time series for mean monthly rainfall for the UK for the period 1883 - 2021 using records held by Armagh, Durham, Oxford, Sheffield and Stornoway Airport observatories, these being dubbed the ‘big five’ a.k.a. UK5 in graphs and tables. We observed that the rainfall record over 139 years has remained …
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