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Record Duration Location Date Highest monthly total (UK national average) [11] 266 hours UK (national average) May 2020 Highest monthly total (England) [2] 383.9 hours Eastbourne, Sussex: July 1911 Highest monthly total (Northern Ireland) [2] 298 hours Mount Stewart, County Down: June 1940 Highest monthly total (Scotland) [2] 329.1 hours Tiree ...
The wettest two consecutive months were August and September 1799 with 378.9 millimetres (14.92 in). [2] The wettest three consecutive months were October to December 2000 with 512.3 millimetres (20.17 in); the only other non-overlapping period to reach 500 mm (20 in) being November 1929 to January 1930 with 500.0 millimetres (19.69 in).
The Autumn of 2000 was the wettest on record in the England and Wales precipitation record with several major rainfall events causing flooding in different parts of the country during October and November. England and Wales had an average of 503 mm of rain from September–November exceeding the previous record by nearly 50 mm. [12]
The year saw a warm, unsettled, wet and dull spring, with the warmest May on record, followed by a cooler than average summer, and the wettest September on record for 10 English counties ...
Experts say September is also Oxford's second wettest month since records began in 1767.
Storm Bronagh broke the record for the wettest September day ever recorded in Sheffield, resulting in the city's most serious flooding event since June 2007. Bronagh first developed as a wave depression close to the southeast coast of Ireland. [32] The storm was named on 20 September, and was expected to develop further over the British Isles.
South-west England provisionally saw its warmest autumn ever.
The wettest month in Scotland is January; most months are wetter than other parts of the UK, except for the late spring to early autumn months. Climate data for Scotland (1991–2020 normals, extremes 1865-present)