Areas across the UK from Cornwall to County Down have seen their wettest January on record continue with heavy rain in February.
The deluge the country has been experiencing in the last week has been put down to a blocked weather pattern - a high pressure system over Scandinavia is preventing the wet weather from moving away.
The Met Office estimates that at current levels of global warming, wet winters like 2023/24 have gone from being once in 80-year events to once in 20 - and with further warming this could become even more frequent.
This could have significant impacts for housing, transport and food supply.
One farmer in Somerset told the BBC that he was living on a "knife edge" as his crops were days away from rotting in the floodwater.
