In a “miserable and relentlessly wet” start to the year, rain has fallen somewhere in the UK every single day for weeks on end. With more than 100 flood warnings in force across the country and further downpours forecast this week, scientists say the atmospheric forces behind Britain’s endless drizzle are the same ones driving devastating floods across Spain and Portugal. How bad is the rain across the UK? Northern Ireland has recorded its wettest January in 149 years according to the UK Met Office, while southern England has endured its sixth wettest January since records began in 1836. Rainfall
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