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Weather could turn worse again? Like ARE U KIDDING ME!? ITS SUPPOSE TO BE SUMMER!! British Weather……U gotta Love It.
The South East and mid Wales have been worst hit by the rain which has battered Britain.
The wet weather is set to continue for the coming days, and could take a turn for the worse on Friday.Elsewhere Brighton has had nearly three times the average rainfall for the whole month in 11 days and the Environment Agency still has flood warnings for the region.
Julian Mayes, a forecaster for MeteoGroup, the weather division of the Press Association, said: “The highest total – apart from mid Wales – is for Brighton, which has had 122mm (4.8in) of rain since the start of June. To put that into perspective, the average for the whole month is 50mm (2in).”
Mr Mayes said figures for mid Wales – which experienced flash flooding on Saturday – are more difficult to collate, but up to 150mm (5.9in) is likely to have fallen across Friday and Saturday.
The Environment Agency has issued around 40 flood alerts across England and Wales, and five flood warnings for: River Colne at Colney Heath, Herts, including North Mymms; the Aldingbourne and Lidsey Rifes at Felpham, West Sussex, including Whitfield Close, the A259, Links Avenue, and Butlins Holiday Centre; the Aldingbourne Rife at Bersted, West Sussex, including Addison Way, Riverside Caravan Park, and South Bersted industrial estate; properties near the River Ouzel between Simpson and Woolstone, near Milton Keynes, including Monkston Park; river Ouzel at Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire, including areas from Leighton Road to Firs Path.
There are 33 flood alerts in the South East, five in the Anglian region, and one each in the Midlands, North East and South West.
In the last 24 hours, 27 flood warnings and alerts have been removed.
There are no severe flood warnings, the highest alert, which means there is an immediate danger to life.
Mr Mayes said: “The reason it has been so wet in the South is because the jet stream has switched from its normal position just to the north of Scotland to down over southern England this month, and depressions follow that.
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