The Met Office have issued a YELLOW warning for rain – with a medium likelihood of low impacts. Most rain will be over South Cumbria with 60-80mm in places - affecting rivers and surface water levels. The rainfall will start around 6am Tuesday morning then easing in the afternoon - and finishing around 9pm. Each following day will see showers and periods of rain.

The Environment Agency predict several Flood Alerts across South Lakeland - Flood Warnings are unlikely however there is a possibility that some rapidly responding catchments may reach that level.

No further teleconferences are planned at this stage however please note that monitoring is in place.

Further Information

• Youcan see the latest Environment Agency ‘Flood Alerts’ and ‘Flood Warnings’ and what they mean on Gov.uk website
• Met Office Weather Warnings can be seen on MetOffice.gov.uk website

• Police traffic map - https://www.cumbria.police.uk/traffic
• Track pockets of heavy rain using the Met Office’s Rainfall Radar Map. By monitoring this map you can see the path that the rainfall is taking across the country – and so make a reasonable prediction of where it might fall next.

• Receive the Environment Agency Flood Alerts and Warnings by signing up to the Flood Warning Service
• You can also receive Environment Agency updates by signing up to Cumbria Community Messaging
• South Lakeland District Council – information on sandbags
• See useful contacts for many services eg electricity, water, gas, highways
• The Flood Hub helps householders, businesses, communities and landowners across the North West become more flood resilient. https://thefloodhub.co.uk