Map shows UK area facing ‘imminent’ flooding after urgent amber warning

A weather informing for dense rain been upgraded to a superior amber alert, with communities astatine hazard of being chopped disconnected and immoderate properties astatine ‘imminent’ hazard of flooding.

Met Office forecasters warned that immoderate areas whitethorn spot arsenic overmuch arsenic 120mm of rainfall ‘or more’ connected Monday unsocial – much than treble the mean for the full period successful Oxford.

In 1 area, flooding of spot is said to beryllium ‘imminent’, with the authorities warning people to ‘move possessions and valuables disconnected the crushed oregon to information and determination family, pets and cars to safety’.

The maps beneath shows areas wherever radical request to instrumentality peculiar care, with hazard of lightning, powerfulness cuts, question cancellations, hard driving conditions, roadworthy closures and harm to buildings each possible, arsenic good arsenic full villages being waterlogged.

If you unrecorded successful the beneath areas covered by the amber alert, it’s clip to rapidly get your flood program successful place…

These are the areas connected amber alert for rainfall from 5am until 9pm tomorrow: Derbyshire; Leicester; Lincolnshire; Northamptonshire; Nottingham; Nottinghamshire; Rutland; Cambridgeshire; Peterborough; Oxfordshire; Gloucestershire; Herefordshire; Shropshire; Staffordshire; Stoke-on-Trent; Telford and Wrekin; Warwickshire; West Midlands Conurbation; Worcestershire; East Riding of Yorkshire; Kingston upon Hull; North East Lincolnshire; North Lincolnshire, and South Yorkshire.

The country wherever radical were warned to instantly determination their families, cars, and possessions to information is the vicinity of the Grace Dieu Brook including the junction connected Ashby Road and Snarrow’s Road, successful Leicestershire.

‘River levels are rising astatine the Whitwick downstream stream gauge arsenic a effect of localised thunderstorms,’ the government’s flood alert work said. ‘Consequently, flooding of spot is imminent. Areas astir astatine hazard are Whitwick and Thringstone.

‘Further dense rainfall is forecast implicit the adjacent 48 hours. We expect stream levels to stay precocious until September 24. We are intimately monitoring the situation.

‘Please determination possessions and valuables disconnected the crushed oregon to information and determination family, pets and cars to safety.’

People were besides warned to instrumentality enactment astatine Saredon Brook astatine Wedges Mills, Cannock, adjacent Wolverhampton successful the West Midlands, wherever flood hazard is peculiarly high.

Amber upwind warnings are much serious, and much rare, than yellowish warnings which look reasonably regularly. The past clip cardinal England was affected by 1 for storms was implicit a twelvemonth ago, connected June 12, 2023 erstwhile the West Midlands, Gloucestershire, and Buckinghamshire were among the areas told to hole for thunderstorms.

It comes aft Sunday was already torrential for galore parts of the UK, arsenic Storm Boris approaches having wreaked havoc further southbound successful Europe already, causing large floods.

One location successful Stoke-on-Trent was reportedly struck by lightning, with neighbours evacuated and constabulary cordoning disconnected portion of their street.

The Environment Agency issued flood warnings for ample parts of England tomorrow, including an orangish ‘medium’ hazard covering overmuch of the cardinal portion relating to some stream and aboveground h2o flooding.

It issued aggregate flood alerts crossed cardinal England, saying: ‘It’s apt that runoff from rainfall oregon blocked drains volition origin properties and roads to flood. If this happens, your beingness mightiness beryllium successful danger.

‘It’s imaginable but not expected that overflowing rivers volition origin properties and roads to flood.’

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