I’m a bit late with the rain report for 2023, sorry. We have already had most of January 2024 and, here in Dunbar, it is already the second-wettest of the five Januaries that I have recorded.
As a whole, 2023 was the second wettest year I have recorded, falling only slightly behind 2021. However, a lot of the year was dry.
The cumulative rainfall was less than the climatological mean right up until the end of September, at which point the year put on a sprint, overtook climatology and 2020, and aimed squarely at 2021’s total, missing only by a whisker.
As a reminder, you can find updated versions of these plots at https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/hughpumphrey/current-weather/ ; the start of these readings is described in the original raingauge post.
