Schools close as Met Office amber weather warnings unleash floods - full list

Schools person been closed aft an amber upwind informing was issued by the Met Office, with a month's worthy of rainfall forecast to autumn successful immoderate areas of the UK

Schools person been closed aft the Met Office issued an amber weather informing for dense rain.

Some areas could spot implicit a month's worthy of rainfall falling connected Monday, starring to a hazard of flooding. A yellowish rainfall informing covering England and Wales, but the astir westerly and northerly regions, surrounds the Amber warning.

Met Office Chief Meteorologist, Frank Saunders said: “Following connected from the dense rainfall that immoderate of america person seen connected Friday, Saturday and Sunday, the caller moving week begins with rainfall crossed a ample swathe of England and Wales. The country with the higher likelihood of impactful rainfall is present covered by an Amber warning, stretching from Gloucester crossed the Midlands to the Wash and the Humber."

"It’s apt that immoderate parts of this country volition beryllium worse affected than others – it each depends connected where, and if, the upwind strategy liable for the dense rainfall stalls and pivots. However, wrong this warning period - which encompasses 2 unreserved hours – immoderate localities volition astir apt spot betwixt 50 and 80 mm of rain, portion there’s the anticipation that a fewer could acquisition successful excess of 100mm of rain. Where this happens, this brings the imaginable for question disruption and localised flooding."

Full database of schools unopen today:

• Chosen Hill School successful Churchdown
• The Milestone School successful Gloucester
• Tewkesbury CofE Primary

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