Derwentwater Flooding

These photos taken at towards the end of February and are of a very full Derwentwater. Lots of the lakeside path was under water to at least Ashness Landing Stage and, I should imagine, so was the vast majority of the rest of the path around the lake.

There were also terrible floods in 2005, 2015 and 2017.

In 2005 The Eden Valley and Carlisle took the brunt of the rainfall and flooding.

In 2009 over a foot (314.4mm) of rain fell in Seathwaite in 24 hours and was a new record at the time for England.

In 2015 The Storm Desmond floods were caused because rainfall fell on already saturated ground following three previous storms during November. These resulted in more than twice the monthly average rainfall for that month. Most of The Lake District was under water, as was Carlisle, Workington and Whitehaven. Many bridges were destroyed and at one point Workington was completely cut off from the rest of Cumbria due to flooding and a major road bridge collapsing. The water levels were even higher than in 2009.

In 2017 there was further flooding but this was mainly in the Borrowdale Valley and at Eamont Bridge near Penrith. I do recall Glenridding Beck bursting its banks and extensively flooding the surrounding shops both in 2015 and 2017. The unfortunate Glenridding Hotel was flooded on both occasions as well.

Carlisle and surrounding areas were also hit by flash floods in August 2019.