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The links in this table take you to text files containing the daily, monthly and seasonal totals for each region. Please note that EWP monthly values start in 1766, the England and Wales sub-regions begin in 1873, and the Scotland and Northern Ireland monthly series begin in 1931. All of the daily series begin in 1931.


Please note, the last 6 months' values are subject to change as a result of quality control. Also please note that, in 2011, we re-calculated all daily and monthly UKP values from January 2006 to date using a more representative selection of stations, as described in this Climate Memorandum, to counter the effects of various station closures over the past several years and to take advantage of some new stations which are now available. In doing this, we took steps to ensure that this will not have affected the homogeneity of the series. The above Memorandum includes lists of all stations used.


The daily totals files are updated each day around midday and contain provisional UKP values up until two days ago.
The monthly and seasonal files are updated once a month on 5th of the month with QC'd UKP data up until the last full month.


Corrections:
January 2023: During the reformatting of the daily series files from the previous fixed width into the current flat file format, some of the historic rainfall values were incorrectly truncated.

These erroneous values have now been updated in the daily totals files for the affected regions.
For more information on this change, please reference the linked document.

     
Region   Daily totals    Monthly totals   Seasonal totals  Ranked Monthly Ranked Seasonal
England & Wales
EWP
EWP
EWP
EWP
EWP
South East England
SEEP
SEEP
SEEP
SEEP
SEEP
South West England & Wales
SWEP
SWEP
SWEP
SWEP
SWEP
Central England
CEP
CEP
CEP
CEP
CEP
North West England & Wales
NWEP
NWEP
NWEP
NWEP
NWEP
North East England
NEEP
NEEP
NEEP
NEEP
NEEP
Scotland
SP
SP
SP
SP
SP
South Scotland
SSP
SSP
SSP
SSP
SSP
North Scotland
NSP
NSP
NSP
NSP
NSP
East Scotland
ESP
ESP
ESP
ESP
ESP
Northern Ireland
NIP
NIP
NIP
NIP
NIP


Please note: The format of the totals and ranked tables files have been changed as part of a refresh of the HadUKP webpage.

All of these files are now output in a .txt format.
Previous versions of the files can be found here. (These versions of the files will no longer be maintained)


The file layout and naming conventions of the updated HadUKP totals and ranked tables can be found here.


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