2012 misses out on wettest year record by few millimetres
The Met Office has confirmed that 2012 was the second wettest year on record, and the total rainfall was just 6.6mm short of the record set in 2000.
The top five wettest years are since records began in 1910.
- 2000 - 1337.3mm
- 2012 - 1330.7mm
- 1954 - 1309.1mm
- 2008 - 1295.0mm
- 2002 - 1283.7mm
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2012 was the second wettest on record for the UK
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