Overview
- Provisional Met Office figures show UK rainfall in January was 17% above the long-term average, confirming the month as among the wettest on record.
- Northern Ireland recorded 195.6mm, about 70% above average, making it the wettest January there since 1877 and the second wettest since records began in 1836.
- Southern England saw 74% more rain than typical — its sixth wettest January — while England overall was about 50% wetter than average.
- Scotland bucked the pattern with below-average rainfall, and the UK’s mean temperature for January was about 0.5°C below average.
- A run of Atlantic systems including Storms Goretti, Ingrid and Chandra brought flooding and disruption, with Chandra on January 26 setting several site and county January records, including 100.8mm at Katesbridge and all-time January highs for Cornwall and County Down.