The winter of 2013-14 will be remembered for seemingly incessant rain and flooding, particularly in the Somerset Levels and across southeast England. Records from the UK Meteorological Office show that this winter was one of the most exceptional periods of winter rainfall in at least 248 years for England and Wales possibly the most. For south-east and central southern England, over 492 mm of rain fell - 238 percent of the average and beating the previous (1915) record of 437.1 mm. However, not only flooding made the headlines. During three weeks in late February/early March, over 25 sinkholes opened up across southern Britain (compared to half a dozen at most in a normal year). The British Tabloid, The Daily Mail, reported that terrifying holes in the ground are opening up all over Britain, while The Sun proclaimed they were pits of despair. First rain, now Brits suffer sinkhole hell indicated by that tabloid. The GSL provides the geological reality.
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