With 2 secondary lows possibly lining up to move across the south on Friday and Saturday the rainfall(even wet snow) will not be welcome once again.

Its been the wettest weather I've seen in my lifetime this winter

Wettest winters on record for England and Wales
434.8 2013-14 up to 24th February
423.0 1914-15

Wettest seasons on record for England and Wales: W for winter, S for summer, A for autumn
A 502.7 2000
A 455.8 1852
A 438.6 1960
W 434.8 2013-14

Wettest February on record for England and Wales (mm)
158.6 1833
152.7 1923
143.6 1950
143.2 1990
143.2 1977
142.1 1937
132.0 1916
131.7 1900
130.0 1848
129.6 1966
129.1 1768
124.2 1925
123.5 1915
117. 2014 up to 24th February

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Wettest winters on record for England and Wales
436.8 2013-14 up to 25th February
423.0 1914-15

Wettest seasons on record for England and Wales: W for winter, S for summer, A for autumn
A 502.7 2000
A 455.8 1852
A 438.6 1960
W 436.8 2013-14

Wettest February on record for England and Wales (mm)
158.6 1833
152.7 1923
143.6 1950
143.2 1990
143.2 1977
142.1 1937
132.0 1916
131.7 1900
130.0 1848
129.6 1966
129.1 1768
124.2 1925
123.5 1915
119. 2014 up to 25th February

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With 2 secondary lows possibly lining up to move across the south on Friday and Saturday the rainfall(even wet snow) will not be welcome once again.

Its been the wettest weather I've seen in my lifetime this winter

It's been the worst winter I can recall for incessant unsettled, wet weather. Many recent winters I can remember which have been dominated by unsettled weather from the atlantic have at least had a couple of lulls in that pattern from time to time. This winter though, just endless rain.

In some ways it's been like the dreadful weather of 2012 revisited.

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Amazing this winter has turned out to be.

So this February is now in top 15 for wetness.

 

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It's the distribution which is different.
Basically the south has had rain which would be a fairly normal winter in NW Scotland 

Here has been not that much above average with first half of December and second half of Feb not really wet at all - but between that made up for it.
2013 was about 200mm down on the average but we have caught up now.

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It's the distribution which is different.

 

Exactly - a point I've made several times so far this year. Much of the southern half of NW England at least has had no more than average rainfall

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We have had less than average over the whole winter, it's the wind that has been the main feature for me this winter

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You are going to find that records at the national especially when it comes to high levels of precipitation are never uniform.

I posted a map of the wettest month on record for England and Wales, October 1903 but for east Anglia, August 1912 was wetter than this.

It should come as no surprise you are going to get regional variations. It's the fact that despite the regional variations, the record was broken.

You are going to find that with many if not all rainfall records when it comes to wetness.

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Wettest winters on record for England and Wales
443.8 2013-14 up to 26th February
423.0 1914-15

Wettest seasons on record for England and Wales: W for winter, S for summer, A for autumn
A 502.7 2000
A 455.8 1852
W 443.8 2013-14

Wettest February on record for England and Wales (mm)
158.6 1833
152.7 1923
143.6 1950
143.2 1990
143.2 1977
142.1 1937
132.0 1916
131.7 1900
130.0 1848
129.6 1966
129.1 1768
126. Up to 26th February

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This winter was yesterday confirmed by BBC Reporting Scotland as Scotland's wettest winter since 1995; by that I assume they mean winter 1994-95, as 1995-96 was overall a rather colder and drier winter overall than anything we had had since 1990-91.

The summer of 1995 wasn't bad though!

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Wettest winters on record for England and Wales 443.8 2013-14 up to 26th February 423.0 1914-15 Wettest seasons on record for England and Wales: W for winter, S for summer, A for autumn A 502.7 2000 A 455.8 1852 W 443.8 2013-14 Wettest February on record for England and Wales (mm) 158.6 1833 152.7 1923 143.6 1950 143.2 1990 143.2 1977 142.1 1937 132.0 1916 131.7 1900 130.0 1848 129.6 1966 129.1 1768 126. Up to 26th February

Phew so as well as the wettest winter on record we've got to the 3rd wettest season on record as well.

And of course there is todays rain to add as well.

It won't be much - but it all adds up.

 

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I have 137.7mm recorded for Feb up to right now.

 

It's raining hard atm.

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141.3mm and still raining.....

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Drier than expected over the past week so January/February finished 2nd wettest to 1994. Dyce recorded 268mm compared to 270mm in 1994.

Winter rainfall was 337mm which is the 2nd wettest in 99 years after 1993/94 but because most of the wettest winters were in the 19th/early 20th Century, only ranks as 6th wettest since 1856 a good bit behind 1876/77, 1882/83, 1993/94, 1899/1900 and 1914/15. 1911/12 and 1976/77 recorded similar rainfall totals but in the latter at least a fair bit of that was snow.

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I take back what I said a bit earlier - we won't get much.

Rained nearly all day here - must have had another 20mm at least.

What a day to round off the wettest winter on record.

 

 

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My gauge reads 143.4 for February here in sunny downtown Baldock.

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Wettest winters on record for England and Wales
447.8 2013-14 up to 27th February
423.0 1914-15

Wettest seasons on record for England and Wales: W for winter, S for summer, A for autumn
A 502.7 2000
A 455.8 1852
W 447.8 2013-14

Wettest February on record for England and Wales (mm)
158.6 1833
152.7 1923
143.6 1950
143.2 1990
143.2 1977
142.1 1937
132.0 1916
131.7 1900
130.0 1848
130. 2014 up to 27th February

Wettest January-February periods on record (mm)

314.6 2014
277.5 1995
271.6 1990
271.1 1937
249.7 1900
246.0 1977
238.3 1782
236.6 1928
233.6 1988
232.5 1915

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Thanks Kevin for these updates. With one day of rainfall to be added, I'm guessing we'll end up just short of no. 2 on the season record list, but probably a 7th place on the February list... All in all a remarkable season, even we'd rather other winter records had been broken!

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Clearly huge variation in the UK figures as per parts of the South which had 250% normal rainfall
so
Southampton figures:
Rainfall for month 215.8 mm
Rainfall for year 487.5 mm