UK weather: More flood warnings ahead of colder spell

People crossed the UK are being urged to hole for much dense rain, flooding and acold upwind successful the coming days.

The Environment Agency has issued 80 flood warnings - chiefly successful westbound and southwest England - and 155 flood alerts.

An alert for terrible acold upwind has besides been issued for astir of England adjacent week arsenic temperatures drop.

Yellow Met Office rainfall warnings are besides already successful spot crossed astir of occidental England and Wales.

The latest warnings travel flooding crossed the UK earlier this week, which caused question disruption and hundreds of homes losing power.

The Met Office has besides issued a level 2 acold upwind alert for overmuch of England from Sunday evening until Thursday morning, up of colder conditions moving successful crossed the UK.

"This upwind could summation the wellness risks to susceptible patients and disrupt the transportation of services," it said, saying determination was a 70% accidental of severely acold weather, icy conditions and dense snow.

The Met Office's Helen Caughey said: "After a spell of bedewed and mild upwind to commencement 2023, a little acold spell volition alteration the consciousness of our upwind crossed the UK for a fewer days adjacent week."

She said it volition "certainly consciousness acold successful each regions too, with the northerly winds creating a notable upwind chill" - though the colder spell is expected to beryllium short-lived.

The flood warnings - meaning flooding is expected - see those for groundwater flooding, arsenic good arsenic for areas adjacent to rivers specified arsenic the Avon, Severn and Wye. In the West Midlands, which has already been deed by flooding, radical are braced for highest stream levels astatine the weekend.

Some flood warnings and alerts are besides successful spot further north, including successful Keswick successful the Lake District, Yorkshire, arsenic good arsenic successful Wales.

Devon has been 1 of the areas already deed by flooding, including adjacent Tiverton, wherever respective roads were flooded aft the River Exe burst its banks. Some properties were near chopped off.

Darren Ninnis, manager of the Anchor Inn successful Exebridge, was stuck arsenic h2o roseate wrong and extracurricular his pub connected Thursday.

"[It's] nonaccomplishment of business, arsenic always, and conscionable much enactment and hassle. With much rainfall forecast, we're conscionable disquieted adjacent week we'll bash the aforesaid again," Mr Ninnis told the BBC.

The atrocious upwind has besides caused travel disruption crossed overmuch of Wales, with radical having to beryllium rescued from cars trapped successful h2o and homes damaged and near without power.

A play driving scope adjacent Cowbridge, westbound of Cardiff, flooded aft the River Ely burst its banks.

"If we had much rainfall yesterday lunchtime I deliberation we'd person been underwater," manager and pro golfer Aled Griffiths told BBC Radio Wales.

Natural Resources Wales has issued a flood informing adjacent the River Wye astatine Monmouth, wherever a Met Office yellowish rainfall informing is successful spot crossed overmuch of Wales until Saturday.

There are besides 2 flood warnings successful spot successful Scotland for Callander to Stirling.

Meanwhile, the Met Office has issued a yellowish rainfall and upwind informing for Northern Ireland connected Saturday and Sunday.

And a yellowish upwind informing for rainfall besides covers portion of the south-west of England and north-west England until 12:00 connected Saturday.