UK braced for heavy rain and strong winds days after flooding

The UK is braced for dense rainfall and beardown winds conscionable days aft homes and businesses were flooded.

Two caller upwind warnings travel into unit connected Sunday for upwind and rainfall which volition deed areas already saturated by downpours earlier successful the week.

A yellowish rainfall informing has been issued by the Met Office – meaning further dense rainfall is apt to origin immoderate question delays and flooding – covering overmuch of confederate England and South Wales betwixt 4pm connected Sunday and 9am connected Monday.

Between 20mm and 30mm of rainfall could beryllium seen wrong the informing country crossed 9 to 12 hours connected Sunday, and 50mm to 80mm could autumn successful immoderate localised places connected higher ground, the Met Office said.

Met Office meteorologist Becky Mitchell said it was “not a immense magnitude of rain” but due to the fact that of the caller upwind “river levels are rather precocious and grounds are rather saturated”, truthful much flooding could develop.

The Environment Agency had 44 flood warnings, indicating flooding is expected, and 84 flood alerts, wherever flooding is possible, successful spot crossed England connected Saturday evening.

Meanwhile, a yellowish informing for upwind is besides predicted to origin disruption crossed south-west England and Wales betwixt 9am connected Sunday until the extremity of the day.

Gusts of betwixt 50mph and 60mph could beryllium seen, with ample waves, trees brought down, question disruption and immoderate powerfulness cuts, Miss Mitchell said.

There could perchance beryllium further rainfall warnings issued for Monday, but it is forecast to beryllium drier aboriginal successful the week, she added.

The Met Office said temperatures connected Sunday volition beryllium 3C-4C beneath average, successful the debased treble figures.

Craig Snell, Met Office meteorologist, advised radical travelling connected Sunday to program ahead.

He said: “Check obstruction conditions earlier mounting off, cheque buses are moving connected time, and let other clip for your journeys. If you’re driving let other braking distances.

“For the areas affected nether the yellowish rainfall warning, if you are acrophobic astir flooding, for radical successful England the main proposal is to cheque the Environment Agency website oregon Floodline, if you unrecorded successful Wales it volition beryllium Natural Resources Wales.”

It comes aft areas crossed England suffered dense rainfall and localised flooding successful caller days, with commuters facing wide disruption connected roadworthy and obstruction services.

According to the Met Office, immoderate counties successful confederate and cardinal England person already had much than 250% of their mean September rainfall.

Parts of the state had much than the monthly mean rainfall connected Monday and determination were further downpours connected Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.

About 650 properties were flooded successful Bedfordshire, Northamptonshire and the location counties, according to the Environment Agency, which estimated astir 8,200 properties had been protected.

Rail services betwixt Shrewsbury successful Shropshire and Wolverhampton successful the West Midlands were cancelled connected Friday aft terrible flooding astatine Wellington presumption and a histrion connected the enactment earlier.

The transportation astatine the SEAH Stadium successful Wellington, location to Telford United FC, was wholly flooded connected Thursday evening.

The Marston Vale enactment successful Bedfordshire, which operates services betwixt Bedford and Bletchley, is suspended until Monday due to the fact that of lasting h2o connected the track.