B87 do we? When I look at the anomaly maps going back over 10 years, I see a mixed bag. Some years we’re drier than average, some years wetter. Some years the NW is a little drier than their average than we have been vs our average and sometimes it’s vice versa.
Always worth remembering that the NW’s rainfall totals can be double ours on average, so even a bit less than usual in actual values can translate into chunky percentage points below the average.
I reckon if you told someone from Glasgow that they have had the “better” of the weather because they only had 1,100mm of rain instead of their usual nearly 1,300mm and we got 750mm of rain versus our usual 615mm they’d probably laugh in our face.