On Monday, 4 January 2016 10:03:42 UTC, Ian Bingham wrote:
In the first three days of January we have already had more than one-and-a-half times as much rain as we had in the whole of January last year. 94.4mm as against 62.1mm.

Ian Bingham,
Inchmarlo, Aberdeenshire.
80m asl.

Yes, thanks Bruce. I read 46.5mm at o9oo this morning, but that was for 24 hours; Ballater's similar reading appears to be for only 12 hours, which is phenomenal. That's all going to roll down the Dee to us. I'm glad I live on a hill, and I'm also glad it's rain and not snow.

Another way I could have put my statistic is that in the first 3 days of January, we have had more rain than in January and February 2015 put together - 11.8% more, in face.

Ian.