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Waves clang implicit the promenade during rainfall and beardown winds successful Folkestone, Kent
By Rachel Russell
BBC News
Homes and businesses person been warned to hole for flooding successful assorted parts of the UK.
The Environment Agency has issued 28 flood warnings and 97 flood alerts crossed England, portion determination is besides 1 flood informing successful Wales.
The Met Office has yellowish upwind warnings for rainfall and upwind successful spot crossed assorted regions until Thursday.
Motorists are being advised by the RAC to beryllium "on their guard" successful the bedewed weather.
The organisation said radical should beryllium driving astatine slower speeds and leaving a larger abstraction betwixt their conveyance and those ahead.
The bulk of the flood warnings are clustered successful the Dorset area but determination are besides flood warnings successful spot for areas including on the River Severn astatine points including Tewkesbury and Frankwell successful Shrewsbury, besides astatine Keswick campsite successful the Lake District. Areas including Curry Moor and Hay Moor successful Somerset are besides astatine risk.
BBC Weather said the fig of flood warnings successful spot was "nothing retired of the ordinary" owed to chiefly flood prone areas being affected.
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Image caption,Cars thrust done flood h2o on Kent Lane, adjacent to Ibsley successful Hampshire
Giving a forecast it said that yellowish Met Office warnings were successful spot for the acold northbound and westbound of Scotland tonight, with gusts of 70-75mph, portion determination is simply a hazard of coastal gales successful occidental areas connected Wednesday.
Temperatures volition stay supra mean for the clip of year.
Meanwhile, the Met Office has issued 3 yellowish warnings for dense rain, covering overmuch of Wales, North West England, and South West Scotland.
Two yellowish rainfall warnings - 1 stretching from Cardiff to Bangor and different covering Lancashire and confederate Cumbria - volition stay successful spot until 20:00 GMT.
A 3rd yellowish informing for rainfall covers south-western and cardinal Scotland, including Glasgow and Stirling until 19:00 GMT.
There is besides a yellowish informing for "strong winds" successful the Northern Isles of Scotland until 10:00 GMT connected Wednesday, with upwind speeds predicted to scope up to 50mph.
On Wednesday, different yellowish informing for rainfall volition beryllium successful spot successful south-western areas specified arsenic Bath, Plymouth and Cardiff, successful Wales, until 17:00 GMT connected Thursday.
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Image caption,Workers from the Environment Agency instal flood defences successful Bewdley, Worcestershire, aft dense rain
Met Office meteorologist Alex Deakin said: "The rainfall volition beryllium spreading its mode done eastbound England and past done Scotland.
"There volition beryllium dense and persistent rainfall for north-west England and parts of Wales, and, due to the fact that it has been truthful bedewed recently, this other rainfall could origin immoderate issues, truthful we bash person Met Office yellowish warnings successful place."
The Scottish Environment Protection Agency (Sepa) has issued six flood alerts crossed south-west Scotland, covering Argyll and Bute, Ayrshire and Arran, Central Scotland, Dumfries and Galloway, and West Central Scotland.
The National Flood Forum has advised radical acrophobic astir the downpours affecting their homes to find retired however to crook disconnected their gas, energy and h2o supplies, arsenic good arsenic keeping a database of utile contacts including for their GP and security company.
The foundation besides advises taking elaborate photographs of homes earlier a flood occurs arsenic grounds for immoderate security claims, and successful the lawsuit of a flood, checking connected neighbours who could beryllium elderly, disabled oregon person young children.
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