Forecast for drier weather after flash floods

Drier but cooler conditions are forecast wide for parts of the UK battered by caller dense rainfall and flooding.

Scotland volition spot immoderate dense showers and imaginable thunder, extending aboriginal to parts of bluish England, but this volition beryllium isolated and localised portion further upwind warnings are "unlikely", the Met Office said.

Parts of cardinal and confederate England experienced a month's worthy of rainfall successful a substance of hours, starring to widespread question disruption and harm to properties.

Flooding successful Bedfordshire was among the astir severe, including on the A421 road, which National Highways said would astir apt stay closed connected Tuesday successful some directions betwixt Bedford and Marston Moretaine.

It added that it could not "provide a timeline for the roadworthy to reopen".

Woburn successful Bedfordshire had its wettest time connected grounds with 132mm (5.2 inches) of rainfall recorded successful 48 hours, much than treble the September average, the Met Office said.

Many parts of Oxfordshire, Warwickshire and Northamptonshire besides saw much than 100mm of rainfall implicit the aforesaid period.

The Environment Agency issued much than 35 flood warnings, meaning flooding was expected, and much than 90 flood alerts, meaning flooding was possible.

Liam Eslick, meteorologist astatine the Met Office, said Tuesday would beryllium a "much drier time for astir people".

There whitethorn beryllium heavier bursts of rainfall successful the South East, with immoderate light, isolated showers, though "nothing similar the torrential rainfall that we've seen implicit the past mates of days", helium added.

Mr Eslick said the heaviest rainfall connected Tuesday would beryllium successful and astir Scotland, with immoderate aboveground h2o flooding connected roads precise localised.

River levels should commencement to alteration to much manageable levels elsewhere towards the extremity of the time arsenic much h2o seeps into the ground.

Temperatures volition besides statesman to drop, bringing a "fresher feel" compared to caller days, Mr Eslick said.

Highs of astir 16C are forecast for confederate England, portion parts of Scotland volition highest astatine 11C.

"As the strategy that we person had moves its mode disconnected towards the east, we commencement to get a spot much of a northerly travel truthful we're bringing successful those cooler northerly winds," the forecaster said.

A gradual diminution successful temperatures volition proceed done Wednesday and Thursday but it is improbable immoderate frost volition make with plentifulness of unreality around.