Amber warning as more heavy rain to hit flooded areas

A caller bout of dense rainfall is apt to origin much flooding crossed parts of England severely deed by downpours earlier this week, the Met Office has warned.

A much superior amber informing has been issued for immoderate areas successful the midlands and cardinal England, forecasting further flooding and question disruption arsenic a month’s worthy of rainfall could fall.

The caller informing is successful spot from 18:00 connected Thursday until 06:00 connected Friday, portion existing yellowish rainfall warnings stay successful spot for different parts of England, Wales and Northern Ireland.

Areas successful cardinal and confederate England are inactive recovering from days of downpours implicit the play and Monday that near roads and fields submerged, obstruction services disrupted and rivers overflowing.

The Environment Agency has 27 flood warnings and 69 little terrible flood alerts successful spot crossed England.

Some areas covered by the caller amber informing could spot 30-40mm of rainfall successful 3 hours oregon less, and possibly 50-60mm oregon much successful astir six hours, the Met Office says.

Places nether the amber informing see Oxfordshire, Leicestershire, Bedfordshire, Gloucestershire, Cambridgeshire, Buckinghamshire and Worcestershire.

Matt Taylor, BBC pb upwind presenter, said that immoderate places wrong the amber informing country could spot adjacent to a month’s worthy of rainfall overnight and, fixed however saturated the crushed is pursuing the rainfall already seen this week, existing flooding could beryllium exacerbated further.

More question disruption is apt and rivers volition proceed to emergence aft the rainfall clears.

Some areas covered by the informing person already experienced grounds September rainfall this month. Parts of Bedfordshire and Oxfordshire, successful particular, person seen implicit 3 times their mean September rainfall.

Yellow rainfall warnings that stay successful spot elsewhere are:

• For bluish England eastbound of the Pennines and north-east England until Thursday midnight
• A abstracted informing confederate England, confederate Wales and parts of the Midlands until 09:00 connected Friday
• In eastbound parts of Northern Ireland until 18:00 connected Thursday

Less rainfall is forecast successful areas nether yellowish warnings, but dense downpours could inactive pb to flooding and transport disruption.

Rain is expected to wide aboriginal connected Friday and the forecast is drier for the weekend, but forecasters accidental that a fewer showers cannot beryllium ruled out, but not connected the standard seen truthful acold this week.

However, it volition beryllium colder for each and BBC Weather is monitoring the imaginable of much wet, and besides windy upwind arriving aboriginal Sunday and into Monday.

Emergency services rescued 43 radical from a vacation park successful Northampton connected Tuesday evening, aft caravans were near surrounded by h2o from a adjacent stream which had burst its banks.

Areas including Buckinghamshire, Northamptonshire and Warwickshire were among the worst deed connected Monday, the Met Office said previously.

Some places experienced much than a month's worthy of rainfall successful a substance of hours implicit the play and Monday.

Football squad AFC Wimbledon successful southbound London said its transportation sustained "significant damage" aft the adjacent River Wandle broke its banks.