Storm Conall hits UK with severe weather after Storm Bert with more flood warnings

Storm Conall has triggered flooding successful parts of southeast England with obstruction lines retired of enactment and delays to question arsenic the caller storm, named by Dutch upwind work KNMI hits conscionable days aft Bert

Brits person been told to brace themselves arsenic the 2nd major storm successful days batters the UK causing flooding and large disruption.

Storm Conall has triggered flooding successful parts of southeast England with obstruction lines retired of enactment and delays to travel. Some places could spot up to 50mm (two inches) of rainfall connected Wednesday, the Met Office has warned, conscionable days aft Storm Bert caused large flooding astatine the weekend.

The caller storm, named by Dutch weather work KNMI, is acceptable to bring misery to thousands successful the southbound of England arsenic it arrives on with an country of debased pressure. A Met Office Yellow informing was enactment successful spot earlier, covering confederate England, including Kent, Sussex and the Isle of Wight. The country covered by the informing has since shrunk to screen mostly Sussex and Kent. The warning, which is successful spot until noon, said much rainfall is apt connected apical of the soaking which locals experienced overnight.

“Rain is present clearing the acold southeast of the UK, with a fewer dense bursts imaginable earlier clearing wholly by this afternoon,” the Met Office said. “Some ongoing low-level impacts are apt implicit the adjacent mates of hours. A further 5-8mm is apt successful a fewer places wrong the informing area, connected apical of the 20-40mm which fell overnight, earlier clearing this afternoon.”

“Some disruption, peculiarly to travel, has been reported overnight and this morning, and volition apt proceed for a small portion though caller impacts from rainfall are unlikely.” The Yellow Weather warning, updated astatine 09:49 this greeting said that 09:49 Thurrock successful the eastbound of England would beryllium affected. In London and the southeast the pursuing areas were owed to look the brunt of the rain.

• Brighton and Hove
• East Sussex
• Greater London
• Kent
• Medway
• Surrey
• West Sussex

Conall is the 3rd named tempest of the play and comes conscionable days aft Storm Bert near hundreds of homes flooded, turned roads into rivers and saw winds of much than 80mph. There is presently 1 terrible flood informing successful place, for the River Nene astatine Billing Aquadrome and 89 flood warnings covering waterways crossed the southbound of England and the midlands.

Into tomorrow, the Met Office said conditions would alteration crossed the country. The Met Office said successful its Wednesday forecast: "Staying cloudy crossed England and Wales, with outbreaks of rainfall becoming much confined to eastbound England done the day. Drier successful Scotland and Northern Ireland with agleam spells. Chilly."

In its outlook done into Sunday, the Met Office added: "Cold connected Thursday, with fog successful the east. Rain arriving successful the westbound later. Winds strengthening from Friday, with outbreaks of rainfall successful the west. Turning milder into the weekend."