The first two weeks of September last year brought more rainfall than expected across swathes of the UK, with southwest England and south Wales experiencing 123 per cent of the whole monthly average in just two weeks. More than 33mm of rain fell on some areas in the UK in a few hours. All of this created the perfect conditions to test and find the best women’s waterproof jackets.
While keeping dry is arguably the first requirement of any waterproof jacket, other factors come a close second depending on where they’ll be used, for how long and to what end. Keeping dry while battling mud and sideways rain on a dog walk will have a different set of requirements than a jacket that needs to keep you dry between meetings in a city. To make sure everyone’s catered for, I put a huge range of jackets to the test, looking for windproof coats that will serve you on long rambles as well as the designs suited for urban use.
