UK floods: Environment Agency in urgent message to millions of Brits after Met Office weather warning

The latest UK upwind forecasts amusement much torrents of rainfall are connected their mode aboriginal this week, with a yellowish informing successful spot for millions astatine hazard of flooding

Brits are being urged to "keep an oculus connected the weather " by a large authorities body, aft days of continuous rainfall led to wide flooding astatine the commencement of the week that saw municipality centres underwater and scores of vehicles submerged. With galore inactive drying retired flood-damaged homes and businesses, the Environment Agency is informing much flooding mightiness beryllium connected its way.

The Met Office has placed a yellowish upwind informing for dense rainfall implicit a ample swathe of the midlands, Yorkshire, and the northbound east, covering millions of households who are being told to hole for powerfulness cuts, roadworthy closures, and imaginable harm from rising floodwaters. This upwind informing is successful spot for the entirety of Thursday.

Heavy rainfall connected Sunday and Monday led to widespread flooding, with areas astir London and the southbound eastbound worst affected. Around 200 homes crossed Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire, Northamptonshire, Kent and the Home Counties are thought to person been flooded, with radical surviving adjacent to municipality watercourses the astir apt to spot h2o harm from the dense rainfalls.

Work is continuing to little aboveground h2o levels and repair flood damage, with section authorities clearing blockages and repairing powerfulness lines aft Monday's deluges and thunderstorms.

Sarah Cook, Flood Duty Manager astatine the Environment Agency, said: "Due to yesterday’s dense rainfall and thunderstorms, flood warnings and alerts stay successful spot crossed galore parts of the country. The hazard of further aboveground h2o flooding is besides imaginable but not expected successful parts of the Midlands and North of England connected Thursday.

"Environment Agency teams proceed to beryllium retired connected the ground, supporting section authorities successful responding to aboveground h2o flooding. We impulse radical to program their journeys carefully, travel the proposal of section exigency services connected the roads and not to thrust done flood h2o – it is often deeper than it looks and conscionable 30cm of flowing h2o is capable to interval your car.

"People should check their flood risk, motion up for escaped flood warnings and support up to day with the latest concern arsenic good arsenic pursuing @EnvAgency connected X, formerly Twitter, for the latest flood updates."

The Met Office forecasts rainfall for overmuch of the UK connected Thursday. Their outlook for Thursday and Friday reads: "Wet and possibly windy upwind affecting astir areas connected Thursday. Northern Scotland should stay drier, and colder. A showery, blustery and chilly northerly airstream for each connected Friday."