We have had a very, very very wet summer across the British Isles. We’ve had more rain in these first couple of weeks of autumn too. While we were out today in South Somerset we saw the result of this continual rainfall… we have had more over the last week and although it was a lovely sunny day the rivers were high and the fields flooded. Because Somerset has several ranges of hills as well as flat fen-like areas known as the Levels, the water takes several days to run and drain off the higher land, so sometimes the floods can come after the rain has stopped.
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The water on the left is where the river has burst its banks and flooded
The line of vegetation on the right is the normal river bank, the water this side with the stick floating along is the course of the river; beyond the grassy tufts it is flood
The river is on the left of the picture, to the left of the willow tree; the rest of the water is floods across the pasture
This is the River Parrett; it enters the sea at Bridgwater, but here it is, flooded at Langport
This life buoy is usually on the rive bank
You’d get your feet wet sitting here! The sign, usually on the river bank, says ‘No Fishing Beyond This Point’
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Lois Elsden 
You have had a lot of rain for sure. From June until September, we had none! Something wrong with this system.
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Something is very wrong with the system! This year seems to have gone from a miserable spring to a miserable autumn with hardly any summer!
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