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In some places. In others, drought. A very complicated system but I think you're right that there's a net increase in precipitation expected overall globally.

Yes. That's true for the temperature as well. In most place the average temperature is growing, but some places are actually becoming colder.

I do not see that much of an upward trend, how did you notice it?

Here you go: https://imgur.com/a/fbt68er. I've removed the first and last year since they had incomplete data and did a simple linear regression. These are yearly totals from https://www.weatherbook.org/dash/3/totals

Undersampled Linear regressions are pretty sensitive to noise points on the ends. Looks like the 90s were lower than next 20 years.

They had "confirmation bias" affecting their perception

Confirmation of what? The belief that climate change is real?

I posted a linear regression in a neighbor comment.

Yes, the UK is becoming wetter and the trend is expected to continue.

Based on what? The inverse is true in my part of the UK.

Based on stats and forecasts.

"the UK has been on average 6% wetter over the last 30 years (1991-2020) than the preceding 30 years (1961-1990). Six of the ten wettest years for the UK in a series from 1862 have occurred since 1998." [1]

[1] https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/press-office/news/weat....