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Britain had second wettest year on record in 2012
2013-01-03 14:48:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Britain in 2012 experienced its second wettest year since records began in 1910 and extreme rainfall has become more frequent, the UK's Met Office said on Thursday. Persistent wet weather resulted in total rainfall of 1,330.7mm in 2012, just 6.6mm short of the record set in 2000, data from the Met Office showed. The environment agency said over 7,000 properties were affected by floods in 2012. "We have always seen a great deal of variability in UK rainfall because our weather patterns are...
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