Pembrey was the wettest place in the UK on Tuesday with 75mm (3in) of rain.
Local opinion, cheerfully, was that it had been among the wettest bank holidays ever witnessed.
June was the wettest on record in the UK, with July heading the same way.
With an average annual rainfall of 22 feet, this is one of the wettest places on Earth.
The wettest summer on record has been blamed for a Weston-super-Mare beach failing a bathing water quality test.
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The document from 16 leading environmental organisations says it took the wettest ever summer to avert serious drought.
Leuchars, in Fife, recorded its wettest July since 2002 and Braemar in Aberdeenshire its most rain since 2007.
Wales has just endured its third wettest summer since records began in 1910, according to the Met Office.
"November may have been the wettest month but overall 2010 rainfall has been the lowest since 1964, " he said.
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Scotland had its wettest year on record with 73.2in (1859.5mm) of rain, beating a previous record set in 1990.
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Data for Wick, Caithness, shows last month and July 2009 were the wettest since 2002 - 88.2mm and 104.8mm.
The stormy start to September follows the wettest August in Wales since 1992.
That did not prepare people for one of the wettest summers on record with high winds and low sunshine.
The flooding is expected to worsen over the coming days after Queensland already experienced its wettest September-to-November period on record.
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This was followed by the wettest UK April to June on record, with the entire year being the second wettest ever.
Heavy rainfall in the summer of 2007 caused widespread flooding across England and Wales making it the wettest summer on record.
Newly-published data from Met Office weather stations have shed light on what made July the third wettest in Scotland on record.
Dunstaffnage in Argyll also had its wettest July for the past 10 years with 177.2mm of rain, according to the recordings.
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June was the wettest month in England since records began in 1910, and, thrillingly, July has every chance of making history, too.
And a series of downpours in late November brought one of the wettest weeks in the last 50 years, causing major disruption.
"2012 was the wettest year on record in England, possibly the UK as a whole, but probably not for Wales, " she said.
The driest spring for over a century gave way to the wettest recorded April to June in a dramatic turnaround never documented before.
Thames Water said its engineers have been on site in Playhatch, but stressed some sewers are struggling following the wettest year on record.
It said the Midlands region had had one of the wettest summers on record and water resource levels had returned to a healthy position.
Earlier this month, the Met Office said Scotland had its third wettest July on record in a series weather readings dating back to 1910.
Double the normal average amount of rain for June fell last month, and April was the wettest since records began more than a century ago.
This has been the wettest spring and summer on records for Brits, causing widespread flooding and forcing Olympic organizers to set up contingency plans.
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This year's variable weather included the wettest June since records began.
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