Met Office maps show where torrential downpours will hit Britain with 43 flood alerts after snowfall

THE Met Office has revealed wherever torrential downpours volition deed Britain contiguous - arsenic 43 flood alerts are issued.

It comes aft snow storms deed parts of the state yesterday - with a -6 Scandinavian chill successful immoderate areas.

The representation shows a ample bluish spot of dense rainfall coming successful disconnected the eastbound seashore of England this morning - stretching into the Midlands, bluish England, and eastbound Scotland.

By midday, rains should person eased northbound of Manchester.

But by 3pm, these volition resume - and Brits successful the west Midlands tin besides expect to spot downpours.

A precocious likelihood of flooding has been identified by the Met Office successful 8 regions crossed Wiltshire, Hampshire and Yorkshire.

Residents successful these areas person been warned that their homes whitethorn flood - and that "flooding of roads" is besides "expected".

They person been advised to "prepare spot resilience measures and guarantee that pumps are working" - and told that they whitethorn "experience inundation of septic tanks and sewer systems".

Meanwhile, flooding is "possible" successful 35 further areas crossed Buckinghamshire, Berkshire, Surrey, Hampshire, Hertfordshire, Oxfordshire, Dorset, Gloucestershire, Somerset and Yorkshire.

Pictures taken yesterday revealed that immoderate areas were already underwater, with cars battling their mode on swamped roads.

Meteorologist Dan Stroud, from the Met Office, elaborated connected today's forecast, going into tomorrow.

He said: "There's a batch of unreality successful the forecast today. It's besides feeling rather cold. In information temperatures are a bully fewer degrees wherever they should beryllium for this clip of year."

"Some of that unreality is heavy capable to nutrient a fewer outbreaks of mostly airy rainfall and drizzle down this eastbound seaboard of the country.

"Although with those colder conditions, immoderate of that is besides falling arsenic a spot of a wintery premix chiefly crossed the tops of Pennines and the North York moors.

"As we determination into the evening, remaining cloudy for galore of us. We're inactive seeing a just fewer showers and outbreaks of rainfall packing successful crossed this eastbound fringe of the country.

"But elsewhere crossed the west, a fewer clearer skies developing. And arsenic we spot those clearer spells, overnight temperatures volition really dip away. Temperatures debased capable for a interaction of frost.

"Into time morning, we spot immoderate bands of thicker unreality and rainfall moving successful crossed Devon and Cornwall."

During the day, Dan said we could inactive expect showers crossed the northbound and eastbound of the country, with chilly temperatures.

The Met Office's five-day forecast cloud, patches and rainfall and a smattering of snowfall from Thursday done to Sunday.

Heavier rains are past expected to instrumentality connected Friday - with a acold breeze.

Yesterday, the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) issued acold wellness alerts due to a spell of freezing weather.

Meteorologist Marco Petagna said: "In the places with the clearest skies we could get down to minus 5C, minus 6C again tonight.

"But elsewhere immoderate frosts could beryllium rather patchy, due to the fact that we've got the upwind and the unreality astir it's stopping the temperatures getting excessively low.

"Most places distant from the north west of the UK conscionable astir escaping the frost by the looks of things."

In a station connected X, the Office was forced to dispel fears the Beast from the East could marque a return.

It said: "An easterly upwind volition make implicit the coming days but it wont beryllium arsenic acold arsenic the 1 successful 2018 which brought the Beast from the East."