Weather heroes DIY activity

April 2012 was the wettest April in the UK as a whole since records began in 1910. Within the UK there were some marked regional variations across the UK. Much of the rainfall was focused on the south.

The Met Office owns and maintains the weather observations network in the UK to feed numerical weather models.

The properties and behaviour of light, and how it interacts with water droplets, give rise to one of nature's most colourful meteorological events - rainbows.