UK weather: Rain warnings as flooding hits roads and rail

Motorists are being warned to enactment disconnected roads arsenic the UK prepares for "atrocious" conditions caused by dense rain.

Some obstruction lines person been impacted, with disruption betwixt Tonbridge and Hasting caused by flooding successful a tunnel.

West Sussex Fire and Rescue Service urged radical to "only question if necessary" aft 20 cars became stuck connected the A27.

The Environment Agency has issued 27 flood warnings and 104 flood alerts.

A set of rainfall - which arrived connected Wednesday successful Cornwall - volition question crossed England earlier passing implicit Scotland's eastbound seashore connected Friday.

The Met Office has issued upwind alerts, including a yellowish informing for rainfall connected Thursday.

Craig Snell from the Met Office said galore places successful the South East had already seen "more than their month's stock of rain".

"The informing areas are wherever we are astir acrophobic astir the hazard of flooding but it doesn't mean that the areas extracurricular them are not going to spot immoderate beauteous atrocious conditions."

He said Scotland could spot "two days of persistent rain" and this whitethorn effect successful snowfall falling successful the Scottish Highlands - though this is not antithetic for November.

The M23 motorway successful Sussex was closed aft dense rainfall caused disruption. The roadworthy betwixt Junction 10 for Crawley and Junction 11 for Pease Pottage was reopened aft respective hours, but immoderate lanes stay shut.