Weather: Heavy rain causes flooding and power cuts

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The Met Office warned flooding of immoderate homes would beryllium apt and travel times would astir apt beryllium impacted

Heavy rainfall and beardown winds crossed Wales has caused powerfulness cuts and flooding to properties and roads.

The National Grid says 110 homes successful Wales are without power.

South Wales Fire and Rescue Service says 5 of its crews are dealing with flooding incidents, with Porth and Pontypridd, Rhondda Cynon Taf arsenic the worst affected areas.

A yellowish rainfall informing remains spot until 17:00 GMT connected Thursday crossed 16 of Wales' 22 counties.

The occurrence work added that a fig of hillside and low-lying properties person been affected from run-off h2o and blocked culverts.

Natural Resources Wales has issued 26 Flood Warnings and 45 Flood Alerts arsenic of 07:00 GMT connected Thursday.

They said determination is nary wide flooding from large rivers astatine present.

Meanwhile, the National Grid said powerfulness outages see 37 customers who person mislaid proviso successful the Llanelli country and 34 without powerfulness successful Kenfig Hill, Bridgend.

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Floods person affected areas crossed Wales

Among the flood warnings successful spot from Natural Resources Wales, determination are 8 warnings for stretches of the River Severn successful northbound Powys, 4 warnings for antithetic stretches of the River Taff from Merthyr Tydfil to Pontcanna successful Cardiff, and 3 warnings connected the River Cynon.

The M48 Severn Bridge is closed successful some directions betwixt Chepstow and Aust successful Gloucestershire.

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