It’s official. Scientists at the Met have just annouced that the downpour that fell last November 2009 on Seathwaite Farm in Borrowdale saw 316.4mm of rain fall – statistically a once in 1,800 years event. The previous heaviest rainfall in the UK was at Martinstown, in Dorset, when 279.4mm fell in 24 hours in 1955. More from The Guardian