"In a miserable and relentlessly wet start to the year, rain has fallen in parts of the UK every day for weeks without fail. With more than 100 flood warnings active across the country and downpours expected to continue this week, scientists say the forces behind Britain's constant drizzle are the same ones bringing devastation to Spain and Portugal. Northern Ireland had its wettest January in 149 years according to the UK Met Office, while southern England had its sixth wettest January in records that date back to 1836."
"The south-west had 56% more rain than the longterm average. The south-east and central south were 88% wetter. North Wyke in Devon, Cardinham in Cornwall and Astwood Bank in Worcester have recorded rain every day so far this year, the Met Office said on Monday. Jess Neumann, a hydrologist at the University of Reading, said: It's been a miserable and relentlessly wet start to the year for many across the UK."
"The commuter town near London has had its longest unbroken spell of rain since records began a century ago. It seems hard to remember that only a few months ago, large parts of the UK were experiencing drought and hosepipe bans. Flooding in Mountsorrel in Leicestershire. Rainfall in the UK since January is due to a rapid-fire series of separate events."
A sequence of Atlantic storms has produced near-daily rainfall across the UK, triggering more than 100 active flood warnings and widespread saturation of soils. Northern Ireland experienced its wettest January in 149 years while southern England recorded one of its wettest Januaries on record. Specific areas in the south-west, south-east and central south received substantially above-average rainfall, and several monitoring sites logged rain every day so far this year. Back-to-back storms including Goretti, Ingrid and Chandra, aided by a southward-shifted jet stream steering low-pressure systems, have increased flood risk after earlier drought conditions.
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