UK and London floods: Dramatic images show devastating floods with towns submerged after days of rain

Cars are trapped successful London and Dunstable precocious thoroughfare is underwater = The Met Office is predicting six much inches of rainfall could autumn contiguous aft near-record rainfalls and rising floodwaters

Floodwaters person risen crossed ample swathes of confederate England, aft days of near-record rainfalls person near millions with a soggy extremity to the summer. In immoderate parts, truthful overmuch h2o has fallen that municipality centres person flooded and schools person shut, with much bedewed weather connected the way.

London commuters could conflict this greeting arsenic the Metropolitan line, Piccadilly enactment and District enactment person each been impacted by flooding.

Parts of the UK person seen days of seemingly ne'er ending rain, with images revealing wide harm to vehicles and information to properties amid accelerated flooding. In parts of Stoke-on-Trent, this led to mudslides enveloping cars, followed by a bid of explosive lightning strikes.

By Sunday evening, ample parts of towns successful the southbound eastbound were underwater, with residents successful Dunstable, Bedfordshire, and Hitchin, Hertfordshire, forced retired of their homes by the rising water. Pictures amusement cars submerged and businesses washed retired by the incessant flooding, with immoderate facing "heartbreaking" damage.

In Dunstable, motorists saw roads closed by rising floodwaters, leaving immoderate stranded aft attempting to transverse the heavy excavation spreading crossed a large route, Luton Road, done the town. Images amusement a transportation van and what appears to beryllium a household conveyance stuck successful the mediate of the heavy pool.

Dunstable Councillor Louise O’Riordan said: “My bosom is breaking for each of those residents and businesses affected by the unusually dense rainfall today. I truly don’t cognize what I tin bash to assistance but delight inquire if you deliberation I can."

Many of the highly populated areas surrounding London, and including the superior itself, person seen utmost upwind and are apt to inactive spot much - with galore Lutoners connected Sunday spotting a tornado ripping done the grey skies overhead.

No work is presently moving betwixt Harrow-on-the-Hill and Uxbridge connected the Metropolitan line, with nary Piccadilly enactment work moving betwixt Rayners Lane and Uxbridge. There is simply a bully work connected the remainder of the enactment nevertheless and tickets volition beryllium accepted connected section buses.

In addition, nary work is presently capable to tally connected the District enactment betwixt Turnham Green and Richmond owed to the ongoing floods.

A further 2 rainfall warnings, 1 yellowish and 1 amber, travel into effect today. The yellowish warning, lasting each day, volition agelong to screen areas further eastbound and further north.

Meanwhile the amber warning, up betwixt 5am and 9pm, focuses connected the areas of Birmingham, Peterborough, Stoke-on-Trent and Hull.

Homes and businesses crossed the state are bracing for much lashings of rainfall today, with six inches of h2o forecast to autumn successful 24 hours for immoderate already water-logged regions.

This is besides apt to origin question chaos successful rainy parts, with the A5 Stretton, Staffordshire, and successful Bedfordshire, closed, arsenic good arsenic expected bid cancellations with Great Northern, Gatwick Express, Southern and Thameslink each having reported work issues truthful far.