Wet tulip

Whan that Aprille with his shoures soote,
The droghte of March hath perced to the roote,
And bathed every veyne in swich licóur
Of which vertú engendred is the flour;”

So wrote Geoffrey Chaucer in The Canterbury Tales , begun in 1387.

But the Met Office wrote

………England, Wales and Northern Ireland have all had one of their ten wettest Marches on records which go back to 1836.
* England’s wettest March since 1981 and the third wettest on record.  
* Wales’s March was its wettest since 1981 and fifth wettest on record.
* Northern Ireland had its third wettest March, though it didn’t eclipse its wettest March on record, set in 2019.

Scotland, however, saw rainfall totals more in line with its average, with 130.1mm of rain being just 4% more than average.

So much for the “drought of March”