About Lakeland Weather

The Facts

South Devon gets more rain than Carlisle!

Seathwaite, the wettest place in England, gets 130 inches of rain a year

Keswick only eight miles away gets a mere drizzle of 51 inches

Keswick has milder winters than London

There is never any fog in the Lakes, mountain mist perhaps........

You get about three quarters of an hour more daylight than in the South.

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Source: The Good Guide to the Lake District. Published by Hunter Davies at £4.95.

Reproduced in the magazine "Lakeland Walker" - an excellent publication.