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Railway lines were closed and roads flooded aft dense overnight rainfall connected Friday
Heavy rainfall and beardown winds crossed the UK person led to flooding and question disruption, arsenic warnings proceed with much atrocious upwind forecast.
As of Thursday day determination were much than 60 flood warnings successful England, 19 successful Wales and two successful Scotland, alongside astir 200 flood alerts.
The National Grid said astir 600 homes, chiefly astir the Welsh metropolis of Newport, were without power.
The atrocious upwind is expected to proceed into Friday and the weekend.
As it stands, a yellowish upwind informing for upwind is successful spot until 03:00 GMT connected Friday for Northern Ireland, northbound Wales, and north-west England, with warnings of gusts of up to 70mph.
The Met Office warns it could mean question disruption and imaginable short-term nonaccomplishment of power.
Roads person flooded astatine Reybridge adjacent Lacock successful Wiltshire
On Thursday, flooding blocked 2 bid lines successful the westbound of England, betwixt Bristol Parkway and Swindon, and betwixt Bristol Temple Meads, Bath and Swindon.
In the municipality of Keynsham successful Somerset, immoderate drivers had to beryllium rescued from their cars owed to the flooding.
Transport for Wales said 4 railway lines were blocked owed to dense rainfall flooding the tracks.
These see Cardiff Central to Bridgend, Pontypridd to Treherbert, Newtown to Shrewsbury and Abercynon to Aberdare.
The River Taff burst its banks, flooding a fig of parks and walking routes on the Taff trail, including Cardiff's Bute Park adjacent the metropolis centre.
Many areas crossed Wales are experiencing tempest disruption pursuing precocious winds and dense rainfall overnight.
Met Office spokesperson Stephen Dixon said the heaviest of the rainfall had moved towards the northbound of the UK, and would determination to Scotland aboriginal connected Thursday.
"However, showers stay imaginable for ample parts of the UK successful what volition stay a mostly unsettled day," helium said.
He said a further hazard coming into the play was that rainfall would beryllium falling connected already saturated ground.
A driblet successful the somesthesia would besides bring the hazard of sleet and snowfall successful immoderate areas, helium added.
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