2012 - a wet year
In 2012 the weather regularly made the news headlines and if you asked somebody to describe 2012 in a single word they would probably say 'wet'.
The statistics For the UK as a whole 2012 was the second wettest year on record (with only 2000 being wetter). The UK rainfall record dates back to 1910. Four out of the top five wettest years have occurred since 2000 as the table below shows. The top five wettest years in the UK 2000 - 1337.3 mm