Met Office: Wettest November In History
Sharon MillerBritain just experienced the most rain-drenched month of November in recorded history as floods devastated Cumbria.
According to the Met Office, the UK’s average downpours cumulated to 217.4mm of rain, easily squashing the previous record of 193.6mm set in 1951.
The highest quantity of rains were recorded at weather stations in Shap, Cumbria, with at total 621.4mm for the month of November, nearly three times the national average.
Hundreds of residents had to flee their residences and businesses and a police officer met with death as floodwaters covered the county.
Police Constable Bill Barker was killed when he was swept away after a bridge collapsed under his feet in Workington as he was directing traffic away from the danger.
Last month’s downpours also saw a new record set in England and Wales with 197.6mm of rain, breaking the 1929 high of 196.9mm.
The Met Office weather station which recorded the least rain in Britain was in Wainfleet, Lincolnshire, with a comparatively timid 69.6mm of rain.
A Met Office representative said the most interesting fact about these events was not the new records set but rather the concentration of rainfalls experienced in certain regions.
He said that regions such as Cumbria, Snowdonia and south-west Scotland have been drenched by the most rain as well as setting new records but areas only kilometers away saw substantially less water with only 100mm.
The footbridge at Workington is now being repaired by Army engineers who are reconnection the two halves.
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