June 2012 'the wettest ever'
Provisional figures show last month was the wettest June in the UK according to records dating back more than a century to 1910.
Met Office: Unsettled weather over past three months
According to the Met Office this June has seen periods of heavy and prolonged rain, as well as short but exceptionally heavy showers.
Many areas have seen extremely high rainfall - with 83 (out of 237) observation sites marking their wettest June on record.
Some of these aren't significant as they have short recording histories, but others have been operating much longer - Otterbourne in Hampshire has been operating for 119 years. This is the second record breaking month of rainfall this year, with April also topping the rankings.
The period from April to June is also the wettest recorded for the UK. Unsettled weather has never been far from the UK during the past three months, with only the latter half of May seeing a spell of prolonged fine weather.
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