Wet and Watery Weather

Floods have dominated many lives in Cumbria and the North West recently. 

Cumbria is OPEN, please come and spend your money to help those who have been hit in business and home. 

But there is no doubt it has a been a very wet year. 

I missed last winter due to my stint teaching in Asia. 

I trawled the internet longingly looking at snowy pictures of clear blue days and wonderful hiking in the hills.

Even when I returned I had high expectations of a fabulous spring followed by lazy summer days. 

Returning in May had to be the right time to come back from a country where 18C was considered very cold.

Not to be.  It was the wettest spring. 

Summer never really got going.

 

There was the odd glorious day.  When the wind blew so strongly the water went back up the fall. As it did on Cautley Spout.

Trails which should have been passable in summer still poured with water,

and though Janet’s Foss remained impressive we had to detour the trail to continue up to Malham.

Eventually Autumn blasted in with two glorious months.

Golden leaves, blue skies and sunshine.  The water dwindled.

Until December when rain worthy of Noah drenched all and destroyed much.

There has to be a good side to everything.

And this year it has been the waterfalls.

So, if you can’t think of any other reason to head North

2015 – the year of the waterfall.