{"id":15561,"date":"2014-10-19T21:13:24","date_gmt":"2014-10-19T20:13:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/?p=15561"},"modified":"2014-10-19T21:16:53","modified_gmt":"2014-10-19T20:16:53","slug":"its-official-cardiff-is-the-wettest-city-in-britain-followed-by-glasgow-and-preston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/its-official-cardiff-is-the-wettest-city-in-britain-followed-by-glasgow-and-preston\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s official – Cardiff is the wettest city in Britain, followed by Glasgow and Preston"},"content":{"rendered":"

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New data released by the Met Office confirms what every long suffering Cardiffian already knows – it’s the\u00a0wettest city in Britain.<\/p>\n

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When I grew up in Wales, rain was a constant companion, and if wasn’t hammering it\u00a0down it would be a slow and never ending drizzle that managed to eventually seep through the layers of even the most ‘waterproof’ garments.<\/p>\n

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The figures show Cardiff as the wettest city with 115.19cm of rain every year, ahead of second-placed Glasgow with 112.43cm – still over twice as wet as London which only gets 55.74cm per year.<\/p>\n

The rainiest towns and cities in Britain<\/h2>\n

Average climate from 1981 to 2010. Data from the Met Office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
City<\/th>\nRain per year (cms)<\/th>\nDays per year with rain<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
Birmingham<\/td>\n80.49<\/td>\n131.1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Blackpool<\/td>\n88.27<\/td>\n145.5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Bournemouth<\/td>\n83.52<\/td>\n120.5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Brighton<\/td>\n72.27<\/td>\n118.1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Bristol<\/td>\n80.21<\/td>\n125.9<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Cambridge<\/td>\n56.81<\/td>\n107.5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Cardiff<\/td>\n115.19<\/td>\n148.6<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Carlisle<\/td>\n87.21<\/td>\n148.6<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Coventry<\/td>\n70.01<\/td>\n123.5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Edinburgh<\/td>\n70.42<\/td>\n124.2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Exeter<\/td>\n78.49<\/td>\n121.1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Glasgow<\/td>\n112.43<\/td>\n170.3<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Gloucester<\/td>\n84.34<\/td>\n145.6<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Huddersfield<\/td>\n102.84<\/td>\n154.4<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Hull<\/td>\n67.99<\/td>\n122.9<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Ipswich<\/td>\n56.05<\/td>\n106.9<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Lincoln<\/td>\n61.46<\/td>\n115.2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Liverpool<\/td>\n83.66<\/td>\n144.3<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
London<\/td>\n55.74<\/td>\n109.4<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Manchester<\/td>\n86.71<\/td>\n151.7<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Middlesbrough<\/td>\n57.42<\/td>\n111.5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Newcastle<\/td>\n59.72<\/td>\n109.5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Northampton<\/td>\n63.81<\/td>\n116.9<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Norwich<\/td>\n67.42<\/td>\n122.8<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nottingham<\/td>\n70.94<\/td>\n124.2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Oxford<\/td>\n65.97<\/td>\n115.5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Plymouth<\/td>\n100.74<\/td>\n142.1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Portsmouth<\/td>\n69.91<\/td>\n108.6<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Preston<\/td>\n103.36<\/td>\n153.2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Reading<\/td>\n63.54<\/td>\n111.1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Rhyl<\/td>\n81.41<\/td>\n145.7<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sheffield<\/td>\n83.46<\/td>\n131.6<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Southampton<\/td>\n77.94<\/td>\n114.7<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Stoke<\/td>\n80.61<\/td>\n143.6<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Watford<\/td>\n67.72<\/td>\n116.1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Wolverhampton<\/td>\n68.12<\/td>\n125.1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
York<\/td>\n62.6<\/td>\n117.2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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New data released by the Met Office confirms what every long suffering Cardiffian already knows – it’s the\u00a0wettest city in Britain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15563,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[20,17,193,198],"tags":[1196,31,227],"class_list":["post-15561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cardiff","category-photos","category-places","category-wales-places","tag-cardiff","tag-rain","tag-weather"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/rainy-bank-august-bank-holiday-cardiff-061.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQI7P-42Z","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15561"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15568,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15561\/revisions\/15568"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}