Never ending rain!

[Cush]

I must be unlucky with the weather in the late sixties I came home on leave from Bahrain in February and landed in the UK in a snow storm, a month later I arrived back in Bahrain in one of the few heavy rain showers. The year the daughter was born there was a drought through to the end of August it broke just as the wife and daughter came out of the maternity unit. Now in Cumberland, there has been a lot of rain this month.

 

[SpokeyDokey]

.... and the place with the highest annual rainfall in the British isles is the Lake District.
What did you expect when you moved there ? You pay for those wonderful lakes and green mountains,
Dahn Saurf, we have had several rainy days since October, but not enough to get my rain gage into double figures (mm per 24 hrs)

@Brains

Well tbh we expected rain and are ok with it to an extent. We knew what it was like as we had enough holidays up here before we moved.

It's just that this has been a very sustained period of it and it is a PITA.

 

[Spinney]

Guess where I'm going for Xmas week...

 

[SpokeyDokey]

Guess where I'm going for Xmas week...

@Spinney

Just seen where your cottage is - when we first moved up here we used to live in Brigsteer. From Levens it is the first bungalow on the left as you enter the village - although some twonk has plastered pink paint all over it now.

I quite often do a fairly big loop including Levens:

Staveley - Bowness - Crossthwaite - Levens - Milnethorpe - Holme - Kendal

Nice ride.

I always feel sad when I go past Scout Scar as my dog's ashes are up there (it was his daily walk) - he's not far from the Pile of Stones overlooking the farm with the big slurry store.

 

[Moon bunny]

Once again we left home in Furness on dry roads, spent a day working "in" rather than "by" Windermere under relentless rain, until late afternoon, when it started to hail by way of a change, and came home to dry roads.
From the Met office:
Ulverston December average 110 mm
Kendal ditto 250 mm.

 

[SpokeyDokey]

Once again we left home in Furness on dry roads, spent a day working "in" rather than "by" Windermere under relentless rain, until late afternoon, when it started to hail by way of a change, and came home to dry roads.
From the Met office:
Ulverston December average 110 mm
Kendal ditto 250 mm.

We live between Kendal & Windermere in the lee of the mountains and when the south-westerlies are running we just get heaps of rain dumped on us.

We sometimes wished we live a tad further south eg Arnside which is significantly drier than here. I was on the phone to someone in Askam-in-Furness (west coast for those that don't know the area) last week and it was dry and mild there and bucketing down here.

Pouring down again today with very high winds running.

 

[Spinney]

@Spinney

Just seen where your cottage is - when we first moved up here we used to live in Brigsteer. From Levens it is the first bungalow on the left as you enter the village - although some twonk has plastered pink paint all over it now.

I quite often do a fairly big loop including Levens:

Staveley - Bowness - Crossthwaite - Levens - Milnethorpe - Holme - Kendal

Nice ride.

I always feel sad when I go past Scout Scar as my dog's ashes are up there (it was his daily walk) - he's not far from the Pile of Stones overlooking the farm with the big slurry store.

I lived in Carnforth before I moved south (OH works in Bristol). I love the Lakes, but this year we've had a lovely, sunny summer down here, when other folks in the north of England and in Scotland have been complaining about endless rain.

We go to eat at the Wheatsheaf now and then when we go to the cottage, and cycle through Brigsteer quite often! I'll look out for the house with the pink paint. A good ride from Levens is up the Lyth Valley and over the Windermere ferry, then meander down the valley and across the Barrow road to Cartmel, and then back to Levens. Not so convenient from where you are, probably. Planning on bringing bikes with us, but not sure whether I'll make myself do more than a shortish loop. When I lived in Carnforth and was feeling lazy I could manage reasonable length rides without too many hills - it's a bit harder from Levens - the bit from Kirby Lonsdale back towards Kendal is very lumpy!

 

[PeteXXX]

My new overshoes should cope with the wet weather up to cross-bar level..

 

[Brandane]

It's not getting any better. Forecast says winds of 65+ mph tomorrow night, then back to the usual 40mph stuff over Christmas weekend, before this nasty looking little beast blows in to the north and west next Tuesday.........(Magicseaweed is the most accurate weather forecast that I have found).

 

[SpokeyDokey]

It's not getting any better. Forecast says winds of 65+ mph tomorrow night, then back to the usual 40mph stuff over Christmas weekend, before this nasty looking little beast blows in to the north and west next Tuesday.........(Magicseaweed is the most accurate weather forecast that I have found).

Not looking good is it. Tomorrow looks ok and then it all kicks off again.

River has burst its banks locally again although not as bad as last time.

We went out to lunch today and had a bit of a mare getting the car through some of the back lanes as they were deeply flooded in places.

 

[Hyslop]

Ive just ventured outside and amazingly,its not raining.Well,not here perhaps,but prior to coming on here I looked at the local news site to discover that Langwathby bridge is awash on both sides,Rickerby Park in Carlisle is under water(mind you it often is anyway)Keswick campsite is flooded,Kendal has had another bad day and sundry other places are under warning.Now,I cant do anything about this,obviously,but it ever makes me wonder,just how fearful one must be when the weather forecast seems to indicate that yet again you and yours are under threat.

 

[Brandane]

Not looking good is it.

The updated map for next Tuesday night. Looks like the whole country is in for a battering this time.... When you watch the animated maps, these low pressure systems just seem to spin around on an axis somewhere out in the Atlantic, and come in to hit us over and over again . Really not funny any more.

 

[biggs682]

i can not start to think what it must be like to have your house flooded by any amount of water no matter where you live whatever the cause