After three months of apocalyptic media stories, flood warnings and amber alerts, you would be excused for thinking we have just had the wettest winter in the UK since Noah slipped anchor. Even now the Met Office is describing it as “among the wettest on record”.

But the Met Office numbers tell a different story. In reality, it turns out to have been no different to many other winters in the past.

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