{"id":1271,"date":"2014-01-30T22:10:14","date_gmt":"2014-01-30T22:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/news\/?p=1271"},"modified":"2014-07-14T10:12:54","modified_gmt":"2014-07-14T10:12:54","slug":"record-wet-january-for-parts-of-southern-britain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/news\/record-wet-january-for-parts-of-southern-britain\/","title":{"rendered":"Record wet January for parts of southern Britain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Early <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metoffice.gov.uk\/\">Met Office<\/a> statistics for January 2014 show that the southeast and central southern England region has already had its wettest January in records going back to 1910, with three days still to go.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/shutterstock_122886430.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1272\" title=\"shutterstock_122886430\" src=\"\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/shutterstock_122886430-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/shutterstock_122886430-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/shutterstock_122886430.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A large area of southern England from East Devon to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/country\/uk\/kent\/\">Kent <\/a>and inland across parts of the midlands has already seen twice the average rainfall for the month.<\/p>\n<p>Southeast and central southern England has received more than twice its average rainfall with 175.2 mm of rain from 1 &#8211; 28 January. This beats the previous record of 158.2 mm set in January 1988.<\/p>\n<p>Further west across southwest England and south <a href=\"http:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/wales_gb\/\">Wales<\/a> the 222.6 mm of rainfall up to the 28<sup>th<\/sup>means January 2014 is already the 5<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0wettest on record and the wettest January since 1995 (224.4 mm). The wettest January on record here was 1948 when 244.3 mm of rain was recorded.<\/p>\n<p>For the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/country\/uk\/\">UK<\/a> as a whole 164.6 mm of rain has fallen so far this month, 35 % above the long-term average, with all nations having above average rainfall.<\/p>\n<p>We have seen quite a contrast from south to north across the UK, with northern <a href=\"http:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/scotland\/\">Scotland<\/a> having received 83 % of its long-term average rainfall so far this month, a sharp contrast to the 200 % over southern England.<\/p>\n<p>Wet weather in winter usually means it&#8217;s been mild and that has been the case this January. The UK mean temperature up to the 28<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0is 4.9 \u00b0C, 1.2 \u00b0C above average.<\/p>\n<p>Looking at the winter season so far, the whole of the UK is on target for a wetter than average winter.<\/p>\n<p>Southeast and central southern England is already seeing its 6<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0wettest winter since 1910 and its wettest winter since 1995 (369.7 mm). The wettest winter on record was 1915 with 437.1 mm.<\/p>\n<p>The main reason for the mild and wet weather so far is that we have seen a predominance of west and southwest winds, bringing in mild air from the Atlantic &#8211; as well as the unsettled and at times stormy conditions.<\/p>\n<p>A full summary of the weather this January will be available on the Met Office\u00a0<a title=\"Climate summaries\" href=\"http:\/\/www.metoffice.gov.uk\/climate\/uk\/summaries\">website<\/a>\u00a0early in February.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 Met Office<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Early Met Office statistics for January 2014 show that the southeast and central southern England region has already had its wettest January in records going back to 1910, with three days still to go. A large area of southern England from East Devon to Kent and inland across parts of the midlands has already seen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"post_views_count":673,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[129],"class_list":["post-1271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weather","tag-uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1271"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1274,"href":"https:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1271\/revisions\/1274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}