Wet in the Dales

[langcliffe]

I don't know about Ingleton, but here's one for Settle: http://settlehydro.hubexpert.com:8080/shcamweir.php

The Wharfe is well in spate at the moment:

The ground is absolutely saturated, and rain just runs straight off at the moment.

 

[ianball11]

Thanks! That is rather a lot of water  :-\


Comparing with the Google Streetview image that's very impressive.

What a great community project!

 

[Pitlamp]

It's not actually that wet compared with sometimes. I've been out and about this morning, taking note of rivers. They're pretty well up but falling already. I suspect all the hoo-ha in the news about bad weather is more related to other areas. The western side of the Dales at least wasn't really that wet over the last 24 hours.

 

[langcliffe]

Agreed it's been a lot wetter, but it's pretty wet here, Pitlamp. All the local streams are well up and the Dales Way was inaccessible down to to Burnsall and up to Grassington this morning (although the river level is now coming down). I suspect that a lot of rain fell further up the dale last night (we had 16 mm yesterday).

 

[ianball11]

If the BBC are to be believed then it's raining for tomorrow and sunny for Thursday then wet Friday and Saturday, so I'm hoping that the sunny Thursday means a nice return to easily navigable passages for Friday and Saturday, 

 

[Pitlamp]

Now then Langcliffe - I did qualify the comment in terms of the "western" part of the Dales. However, you have even more decades experience of watching floods round here than me; I'd like to bet you've seen far worse. The day of the Long Churn rescue in 2011 springs to mind, when Malham Tarn Field Centre had clocked 81.2 mm of rain in 24 hours.

 

[Rachel]

I had to go to Skipton today and the fields along the A65 were mostly underwater. So was the road in several places!

 

[mikem]

The fields around Skipton are a flood plain...

Wales & Dartmoor have had more rain in last 24 hours, these river webcams show river each hour during last 2 days:
http://www.farsondigitalwatercams.com/live-webcams/north/
You need to click on the pictures & then the times across the top to see level changes.

Mike

 

[Pitlamp]

Wednesday morning; both Ingleton rivers are only "normal high". If it puts a big dollop down this afternoon though it could get a bit more interesting; let's see.

 

[Alex]

Heavy persistant rain forcasted.

 

[Fulk]

Well, it (the heavy rain) has reached Kendal (early p.m.), so I guess it'll reach the Dales sooner rather than later.

 

[Speleodroid]

Well, it (the heavy rain) has reached Kendal (early p.m.), so I guess it'll reach the Dales sooner rather than later.

It be grim in t'dales!!!! 

 

[langcliffe]

The sort of day that makes me wish that I didn't have border collies that insist on walking for at least two hours a day...

 

[ianball11]

The BBC splits it's predicting into 4, Morning, Afternoon, Evening and Night with 2 times for eash section sopredicting the weather at 8 points throughout the day.

I'm hoping the no rain between Thursday lunchtime and Friday afternoon is dry and the sun on Thursday does some drying.

 

[Pitlamp]

It's been a truly horrible afternoon in the Clapham area. Horizontal rain at up to 50 miles an hour isn't my idea of fun. It's just ripped off my neighbour's TV aerial and my recycling bin has been dancing about on its own (i.e. minus contents). I suspect west facing catchments at least will be in flood again by now. When is all this all this pestilential misery going to end? I'm almost over my Christmas flu bug and I want to play out!

 

[Fulk]

It could just be a 'memory thing' ? but the current spell of crap weather seems to have lasted longer than most.

 

[ianball11]

Hmm, need a different plan for the weekend!

 

[Rachel]

Around 6pm tonight, the road that goes from the A65 at Country Harvest, through Burton in Lonsdale was only just passable due to a 2ft deep 20-25ft long 'puddle' at the other end, where it meets the Lancaster-Kirkby road. Could be interesting by weekend, but at least it'll keep the Lancastrians out 

 

[dunc]

but at least it'll keep the Lancastrians out 

Ahh, Lancashire, I'm sure the residents will be happy to stay in their own county having a plentiful supply of entrances to one of the finest cave systems in the north (/country..?) within its borders..  :

 

[darwen dave]

Could be interesting by weekend, but at least it'll keep the Lancastrians out 

Ouch!
I'll be at Brackenbottom on Sunday despite the humid conditions 

I'll sort out your prejudices there.  :spank: