Summer 2007 'could be wettest ever'

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Provisional rainfall figures up to August 28 show that 358.5mm of rain has fallen in the UK, just above the previous record of 358.4mm in 1956.

If the figure is confirmed when all the weather stations send in their data, it would make this summer the wettest on record.

"These figures confirm what most people have already been thinking - this summer has been very wet and very disappointing for most," said Keith Groves, the Met Office's Head of Forecasting.

This year's wet summer is largely down to the position of the jet stream, a ribbon of very strong winds which brings weather systems across the UK, the Met Office said.

For much of this summer, it has been further south and stronger than in a typical summer which has brought depressions across many parts of the country.

The summer rainfall for England is expected to be 324.2mm, 16mm higher than the 1956 record of 308.2mm.

But Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are not expected to have had record-breaking rainfall this summer.

The provisional figure for Scotland is 383.3mm, below the 1985 record of 453.6mm.

Wales is expected to have seen 469.9mm of rain, far below the 1927 record of 499.5mm. And Northern Ireland's provisional figure for this summer is 374.5mm. Its wettest summer was in 1958 when 404mm of rain fell.