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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
National
Tom Place

Here is why the UK’s weather has been relentlessly wet in 2026

There is no doubt about it - it has been a miserable start to the year.

Rain has fallen somewhere in the UK every single day of 2026 so far, in a historically wet start to the year, with more than 100 flood warnings in place across the country.

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