I posted the picture above a couple of years ago to show the base level of the Wiza on Station Road. I took the picture below on Saturday afternoon. By comparing the two, the water level is 1.9 metres higher.
I hadn't thought to empty our bucket rain gauge in the garden ahead of the deluge, so this is what collected in a Wigton garden over the last 2 weeks:
That's about 180mm. Nearly twice that fell in a day over the highest ground in Cumbria.
