WEST Yorkshire had its wettest February on record last month, with Bingley even surpassing this total.

The Bingley Samos weather station, which is based in Wilsden, recorded 315.8mm through February, which was 80mm higher than the month’s total for West Yorkshire.

West Yorkshire had 235.8mm of rain through February 2020 which is 359 per cent of its long term average, according to the Met Office.

This was the wettest February on record for West Yorkshire with the previous record being 180.3mm in 2002. Records began in 1862.

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These are in line with the figures for England, Wales and Northern Ireland, which also recorded the wettest February on record last month.

Last month was the second wettest, behind February 1990, for Scotland.

The weather service say it has also been the fifth wettest of any calendar month in a series from 1862 behind only October 1903 (227mm), December 2015 (217mm), November 2009 (215mm), and December 1929 (213mm).

A total of three named storms hit the UK during February - those being Ciara, Dennis and Jorge, all wreaking havoc across the district.

More than 70 homes in the Bradford district were flooded as Storm Ciara hit. Grants of £250 and a council tax exemption have been given to flood affected households from Bradford Council.

GOV.UK issued flood warnings for Shipley, Esholt, Cottingley, Keighley, Oakworth, Oxenhope, Silsden, Cleckheaton, Liversidge, Heckmondwike and Batley during the storm spells.

The heavy rainfall throughout the month resulted in some severe impacts with many areas flooded, including parts of Yorkshire, Wales and the Midlands.

A spokesman from the Met Office said February has been a notably mild, but not record breaking, month for temperature.

Meanwhile, this winter (December, January, February) has been the fifth wettest winter on record for the UK as a whole as well as the fifth mildest.