Wettest

It was the wettest month on record in Montpelier, which recorded 12.06 inches of rain, and the wettest July on record in Rutland, which had 7.42 inches of rain, said Adriana Kremer, meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Burlington.

Flood levels remain as UK emerges from wettest February on record Water levels are generally dropping or remaining stable in flood-hit areas of East Yorkshire following the wettest February on record.

The Upstate, with 59 inches of rain and a quarter of the year still to go, isn't far short of the wettest year in recent memory — nearly 70 inches in 2013 — and the fourth-wettest over the course of more than a century.

According to Met Éireann, Ireland has seen the warmest June on record on land and at sea this year and the wettest July on record, with 17 rainfall stations having over double their long-term average monthly rainfall.

And it has not stopped raining, as anyone in the region would tell you, resulting in one of the wettest summers on record.

But it’s an idea worth considering with recent droughts threatening drinking water supplies even in the traditionally wettest part of the state.

It’s “the wettest year on record dating back about 40 years,” declared Sean de Guzman, snow survey manager for the state Department of Water Resources.

It was also the wettest Christmas Day on record for the station, with records dating back to 1939 for the airport.

Meghalaya, one of the wettest regions in the world, has a number of rivers that are perfect for white-water kayaking.

Saturday will probably be the wettest day of the week.

Sunday was the "wettest" day on record in August for areas including San Diego, Oceanside Harbor, Vista, Escondido, and Palm Springs.

The Bureau of Meteorology has reported Victoria’s spring was the wettest on record.

There has been a “huge surge” in people wanting to book autumn holidays in the sun after what has been one of Ireland’s wettest summers on record, say tourism chiefs.

They say: "The wettest and windiest conditions are most likely in the north and west.

This year hasn’t been the wettest summer on record, but precipitation totals are well above average, said Derek Schroeter, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Gray.

After a potentially more settled spell of weather, unsettled conditions are likely to return during the week with the wettest conditions in the west.

As the General Election looms, the NFU is urging politicians to recognise the extraordinary nature of what has been the wettest 18 months since 1836, warning that many farms may be unable to survive.

But as next weekend rolls round, it's set to get a tad more tumultuous, as low pressure nearby means showers for most places – and the wettest, wildest weather is tipped for the north and west.

February is typically the wettest month of the year in Los Angeles, with an average of 3.64 inches of rain in total downtown.

HIGHWAYS bosses have issued assurances the extended closure of the A59 at Kex Gill for a further three months was caused by one of the wettest winters in a century, rather than the felling of hundreds of trees beside the route.