UK weather: Met Office warns of thunderstorms

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Showers To You have compiled data from the Met Office in an effort to suss out the soggiest towns and cities in the UK. Using the weather agency’s climate information, Showers to You have found the average rainfall in millimetres and the average number of wet days per month for each UK city with a population of more than 100,000 people. These results have then been divided by 12 in a bid to calculate the average monthly rainfall and the average amount of days of rainfall per month in a country that sees its fair share of downpours.

Cardiff, the capital of Wales, has won the top spot for being the wettest city in the UK, with an average monthly rainfall of 96mm, and the average number of wet days per month standing at 12.4.

Cardiff’s high ranking total equates to more than one quarter of Wales’ city’s year being shrouded in rain.

Next is Scotland’s city of Glasgow, with an average rainfall of 94mm.

Despite the lower average rainfall, Glaswegians can expect to see more wet and miserable days than Wales, coming in at 14.2.

This means more than half of Scotland’s days in a year – 170 – are wet and miserable, making it the highest out of all cities in the UK within this category.

Third place goes to Huddersfield, with an average monthly rainfall of 85.7mm.

The city that birthed Rugby League sees, on average, almost 13 wet days per month, and 154 in a year.

The seaside city of Plymouth in southwest England comes next, with an average monthly rainfall of 84mm.

Plymouth sees 11.8 rainy days in any month, on average, making it among the highest in the country – surprisingly.

Swansea, another Welsh city, makes the last entry in the top five.

Swansea has an average of 87.3mm rainfall per month, and residents of the Welsh city can expect to see 12.3 days of rain in a given month, equating to 147.9 in a year.

In terms of regions, the southwest wins the prize for the wettest area of the UK, followed by the south east and then the north west.

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Showers To You writes: “With Plymouth, Cheltenham, Bournemouth, Bristol and Exeter all making the top 20 – the southwest of England is crowned as the UK’s wettest region.

“The southeast of England is in at second, with High Wycombe, Eastbourne, Hastings and Southampton all contributing to this achievement.

“The northwest of England is third – Rochdale, Blackpool, Stockport and Liverpool all placing in the top 20.”

The Met Office has issued warnings for rain for this weekend covering the southwest of England, reinforcing the fact it is, in fact, a very soggy region.

The Met Office yellow weather warning reads: “Heavy, perhaps thundery, downpours may become concentrated into a narrow corridor of persistent heavy rain on Saturday afternoon and evening.

“Where this occurs, 20-30mm of rain may fall in an hour with 40-50mm of rain in three or four hours, and a small chance of up to 80mm in a few places.

“This brings a risk of localised flooding and disruption, while locations either side of this shower band may see very little rain.”

Regions affected by the yellow warning include:

• Bath and northeast Somerset
• Bristol
• Cornwall
• Devon
• North Somerset
• Somerset
• South Gloucestershire

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