Bassenthwaite Lake merging with Derwentwater.

[Weekender]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-cumbria-59092200

Almost.

 

[MUTTY1]

At least it wasn’t intentional….

 

[Suffolk Tony]

I've just come back from Keswick. Derwentwater was very high when I arrived on Wednesday, & it persisted down all night. Luckily, I'm a very early riser & managed to drive my car out of its parking spot before it got submerged. Phew! The water level's gone down a fair bit now apparently; I decided to drive back to Suffolk, rather than be marooned. Not as bad as when Storm Desmond hit in 2015 thankfully.

 

[sean99]

Blimey - 12" of rain in 24 hours. I thought we'd had it bad earlier this week with 3" of rain in 24 hours.

 

[sean99]

it persisted down all night.

Determined stuff is rain.

 

[Suffolk Tony]

Blimey - 12" of rain in 24 hours. I thought we'd had it bad earlier this week with 3" of rain in 24 hours.

13.4” in 24 hours in 2015, Honister Pass, just up the road. 12+” in 2009. Bad flooding seems to be coming along every six years, but I guess this will become more frequent. And we were told the 2009 floods were a once in a thousand year event…

 

[twotone]

I live in Glasgow and we get a lot of rain but I’ve never seen rain like the rain we had in Keswick back in March 2019 it was biblical, I nearly lost the dog in the river up at the Mary Mount hotel in Borrowdale, thankfully he was fine after going in to retrieve a stick but he was carried down river about 500 yards.

 

[MartinC]

Blimey - 12" of rain in 24 hours. I thought we'd had it bad earlier this week with 3" of rain in 24 hours.

Can you send some over here please - we get a total of 12" in a good year.

 

[twotone]

Can you send some over here please - we get a total of 12" in a good year.

We have had about 10” of rain in the last 24 hours we get a lot of rain in Glasgow.

 

[Weekender]

"Tinseltown in the rain..."