If you have been hit by relentless rain and flooding this winter you might well be expecting the weather to have broken some records. Provisional statistics from the Met Office show that is not the case, with rainfall so far this season, for the UK as a whole, just 9% above average overall - wet, but far from the wettest. However those national figures mask some huge regional variations. Some parts of southern England are on course for their second-wettest winter on record, while much of north-west Scotland has been significantly drier than normal. It is largely down to a blocked weather pattern that sent rain into the same parts of the country repeatedly for much of the winter and left others predominantly dry. Meteorological winter runs until the end of February - so there are still a couple of days of potential rainfall to count. However, the Met Office has crunched the numbers up until 25 February and revealed that southern England has already had its seventh-wettest winter since records began in 1836.…