Originally Posted by
Tourist in MSN
I have no experience with the rain in UK, but I can say in USA that usually a drizzly rain can last quite a while but not get anything too wet too fast. Thus, i try to set up the tent quick in light rain and sprinkes. But heavy rain often is over in less than a half hour, maybe 45 minutes. Or, if it is still raining, it is much lighter. Thus in heavy rain, I would try to find a dry spot indoors to sit it out. But watching the forecast is quite useful to try to time things.
But, like you say, if it looks like the whole time will be wet, stay indoors instead. On that same trip, later I saw this forecast and decided to stay in a Hostel for three nights. We ended up having five days of rain.
it depends....currently we are getting several hours of heavy rain, most days, accompanied by very high winds a lot of the time. In the summer, it might be drizzly for most of the day, which is fine. Or you might get a small downpour. The summer does not see the heavy rainfall we seem to get in the winter, although this winter is particularly bad.
this is a photo I took this morning walking my dog. It wasn't like it Thursday, and the fields further along were worse
Needless to say, if it's been raining like it has been, a trip I'm talking about wouldn't happen. We would book accommodation. A lot of our campsites are on farms and in fields similar to this.