Fresh disruption as wind and rain increases flooding threat

Stormy upwind is bringing the menace of flooding and much disruption to transport crossed ample parts of England and Wales.

A bid of yellowish warnings for upwind and rainfall person been issued for ample parts of England and Wales with much than 40 flood warnings successful place.

After a Met Office informing for rainfall implicit parts of Wales and central, confederate and bluish England, ran until 6am connected Monday and determination was small respite with overmuch of the aforesaid country nether a 24-hour informing for beardown and gusty winds from the aforesaid time.

A informing for periods of dense rainfall that could origin immoderate flooding of roads and properties was successful spot for the West Midlands and astir of Wales until 11.59pm connected Monday with the Met Office predicting 20mm to 40mm to autumn rather wide and 50mm to 70mm connected higher ground.

Okehampton successful Devon had 35.8mm of rainfall connected Sunday, portion an 83mph gust was recorded successful Berry Head, southbound Devon, and 81mph successful Capelcurig, North Wales.

A yellowish upwind informing was successful spot until 7am connected Monday for ample parts of confederate England, the North West, the West Midlands and Yorkshire.

Flooding saw stretches of the A36 and A303 closed successful Devon and Wiltshire overnight, portion National Rail said services were moving usually betwixt Taunton and Castle Cary aft flooding.

Most of the 40 flood warnings, wherever flooding is expected, issued by the Environment Agency screen the southbound westbound and southbound coast, the 2 warnings issued by the Scottish Environment Protection Agency.

Scotland is recovering from the effects of Storm Eowyn.

ScotRail said engineers had made “great progress” successful removing debris and repairing damage, but respective lines were improbable to reopen for the commencement of services connected Monday. The Largs to Adrossan enactment volition not reopen connected Monday aft an overhead gantry was brough down by a falling tree.

Avanti West Coast said services to and from Glasgow and Edinburgh had resumed, but warned of precocious starts and imaginable delays connected Scottish routes.

Northern Ireland Electricity Networks said astir 74,000 customers remained without powerfulness astatine the extremity of Sunday pursuing Storm Eowyn, portion the Northern Powergrid said teams were moving to reconnect much than 150 customers overnight.

Ben Lukey, a flood work manager astatine the Environment Agency, said: “Although not expected, impacts could see localised flooding from watercourses, drains, channels and flooding from overland flow.

A bedewed and windy spell arrived successful the South West connected Sunday greeting and was moving crossed the northbound of the UK overnight.

Met Office meteorologist Marco Petagna said: “Things are going to enactment unsettled successful the adjacent fewer days. We’re getting successive spells of bedewed and windy weather, which is evidently adding to impacts

While not arsenic almighty arsenic Storm Eowyn, a low-pressure strategy was named Storm Herminia by meteorologists successful Spain which was expected to consciousness the strongest winds.

The Met Office said Monday is expected to spot showers, turning dense successful the southbound alongside strong, gale-force winds, with snowfall connected the hills successful the north.

Gales are expected to easiness dilatory successful the South West overnight but prime up successful the acold north.

Tuesday is forecast to spot further dense showers successful the southbound with a hazard of thunder. Longer spells of rainfall successful the North West arsenic expected to easiness later.

The bedewed and windy upwind volition stay successful the southbound connected Wednesday much settled conditions volition beryllium contiguous aboriginal successful the week.