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Storm Floris

4–5 August 2025 · 2024-25 season · named by Met Office · Scotland

82 mphmax gust
1flood warnings & alerts
A rare severe summer windstorm affecting northern Scotland, with 82mph at Wick Airport equalling Scotland's August gust record; over 70,000 properties lost power. Impact was wind-led rather than significant flooding.

Flood footprintstorm total

0severe warnings
0flood warnings
1flood alerts
1areas
1counties
1rivers & seas

Worst-hit areas

  • Rivers Brathay, Rothay and Winster1

Counties

  • Westmorland and Furness1

Rivers & seas

  • River Brathay, River Rothay, River Winster1

Flood mapthe storm's flood footprint

Red/amber rings mark rivers that reached or came close to their own high level during the storm — the most direct evidence of likely flooding (the gauge measures the river, not any one property). Solid dots mark each flood area's reference point, coloured by the most severe warning raised there — a warning means flooding was expected. Shaded shapes are the Environment Agency's recorded flood outlines: land actually observed flooded, published retrospectively (updated quarterly). England data only.

The rainstorm-total by gauge

GaugeTotal mm
Honister 154.4
Ennerdale Black Sail 112.6
Seathwaite Farm 110.6
Mickleden Middle Fell Farm 96.6
Coniston Coppermines 86.1
Brathay Hall 75.6
Kentmere Hallow Bank No2 71.9
Thirlmere St Johns Beck 66.2
Rainfall station · Cumberland 65.1
Glenridding Greenside Mines 64.9
Dubbs No 2 64.3
Demings Moss 64.0

The riverspeak vs warning level

StationPeak% of warning
Prestbury Road · Wymans Brook 0.13 m 250%
Holbeam Dam Downstream · River Lemon 1.58 m 213%
Calder Hall · River Calder 1.08 m 209%
Hexham Tanners Row Downstream · Cockshaw Burn 0.06 m 197%
Holbeam Dam · River Lemon 1.37 m 185%
Broadway Flood Storage Area · Badsey Brook 1.23 m 127%
Kielder Butteryhaugh · River North Tyne 0.69 m 124%
Low Houses · Snaizeholme Beck 0.72 m 121%
Bolton by Bowland Hellifield rd · Kirk Beck 0.84 m 120%
Perry Park · River Tame 1.00 m 116%
Footholme Flume · River Dunsop 1.19 m 116%
Bescot · River Tame 1.43 m 114%

Gauge records cover 3–6 August 2025 (the storm window ± a day). Frozen 3 Jul 2026.

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