By Andre Rhoden-Paul & Alex Binley
BBC News
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Points of Scotland dangle been hit by a week’s price of rain in precisely 24 hours as downpours batter the UK after days of sizzling, dry weather.
Heavy rainfall has resulted in flooded roads all over southern England and Wales.
The Met Plight of job issued yellow thunderstorms warnings in England and Wales, with scamper back and forth disruption, power cuts and lightning imaginable.
The Ambiance Company has issued on the discipline of 20 flood alerts for areas of Midlands and south-east England.
Photographs and images shared on social media showed torrential rain and floodwater sweeping thru cities all over southern England and Wales, alongside side Newquay in Cornwall, Bishop’s Tawton in Devon, Haywards Heath in West Sussex, Port Talbot in south-west Wales, and Bridport in Dorset.
The stormy prerequisites will proceed to dart south thru the day, following the longest heatwave in 15 years in south-east England – with temperatures passing the threshold of 28C (82F) on nine consecutive days.
Bear you ever been laid low with the storms? Earn interested by electronic mail here.Image source, Leon Neal/Getty Photographs
By 07: 00 BST, Strathallan shut to Perth, Scotland had considered 55.2mm (2in) of rain tumble in now not up to 24 hours. Here is 71% of the 77mm the home in total sees in August.
The heavy rain resulted in flooding on tracks within the home and a signalling fault, while tempo restrictions of 40mph (64km/h) had been set in attach of living all over gigantic swathes of the rail community.
BBC Weather presenter Jennifer Bartram acknowledged while heavy rain in August is now not uncommon, it “might maybe effectively be causing problems because how dry it has been within the lead up”.
Image source, Network Rail Scotland
Image caption, Flooding on prepare tracks in Perth in Scotland resulted in a signalling fault.
On the roads, Web site visitors Scotland warned floor water became affecting many routes and told motorists to grab care.
A yellow weather warning has now ended in Scotland nonetheless warnings remain in attach of living for many of England and Wales on Tuesday, and southern England on Wednesday.
Yellow thunderstorm warnings indicate flooding of properties and agencies might maybe per chance occur hasty, with fleet flowing or deep floodwater imaginable, causing a hazard to life.
Southern England will luxuriate in the brunt of the heavy rain, with hail and frequent lightning and flash flooding imaginable.
Met Plight of job spokesman Stephen Dixon acknowledged parts of the country might maybe per chance agree with up to 50mm of rain interior three hours.
He acknowledged storms prone to appear in areas of the Midlands might maybe per chance be “slack provocative” nonetheless thunderstorms had been save to dart south because the day goes on, adding this shift would proceed overnight and all over Wednesday.
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Image caption, Tonnes of mud and potatoes had been washed on to a toll road in Somerset by the heavy rain
Native authorities in Somerset acknowledged the A358 is determined to reopen after they performed shifting more than 50 tonnes of mud off the toll road at Combe Florey, following a mudslide on Monday.
Within the meantime, Network Rail acknowledged a suspected lightning strike shut to Hither Green in south-east London had resulted in signalling problems and power to fail, main to passengers being stranded on trains and delays.
And swimmers dangle been warned of sewage and air pollution at several beaches on English coastlines, linked to the heavy rain.
In accordance to records gathered by environmental campaign community Surfers In opposition to Sewage, there has been storm sewage discharge into the waters at beaches in Cornwall, Devon, Sussex, Essex, Lancashire, Lincolnshire, Northumberland and Cumbria.
Media caption, See: Lightning strikes rob darkness from Scottish skies
Weeks of little rain resulted in drought all over parts of the UK nonetheless the next couple of days is now not prone to ease the parched prerequisites because rainwater struggles to permeate dry ground, that approach it would bustle off the dehydrated floor and lead to flash flooding in some areas.
Mr Dixon told somebody who lives in an home inclined to flooding to “dangle a clutch score with things love water and insurance facts and one thing else you might maybe per chance presumably need, ready to dart”.
He added other folks that feel their property is inclined to flooding might maybe per chance grab into consideration provocative valuables upstairs.
One weather watcher in Newquay posted a video of torrential rain main to flooding.
No matter the rain, the Ambiance Company declared a drought in Yorkshire on Tuesday, the foremost since autumn 2018.
Within the meantime, hosepipe bans are save to reside in attach of living on the Isle of Man and in Kent and Sussex.
Thames Water has acknowledged one will approach into power in “the heart of subsequent week” and the corporate confirmed there has been “now not up to 65% of the standard rainfall in this yr”.
Cathryn Ross, the body’s strategy and regulatory affairs director, acknowledged: “We dangle had an awfully sizzling dry July and August and albeit if we had been going to preserve away from a ban at this stage it would potentially need to drizzle for roughly three months, and it’s potentially now not going to produce that.”
Thames Water covers Higher London, the Thames Valley, Gloucestershire and north Wiltshire.
Hosepipe bans will even approach into power in:
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Image caption, Rain did now not dampen the spirits of spectators at the Fringe competition in Edinburgh.
Amid these bans, some water companies dangle been told to “up their recreation” by the head of the water regulator for England and Wales, as he defended Ofwats’s document of keeping water companies to memoir.
Questioned on BBC Radio 4’s Recently Programme, Ofwat chief govt David Sunless singled out agencies love Thames Water and Southern Water and described the “unhappy performance” of some water companies as “quite merely unacceptable”.
Day-to-day ask for water in England and Wales became 14 billion litres (three billion gallons), on life like in 2018. In sessions of sizzling weather here’s prone to be bigger.
But daily, yet any other three billion litres became lost thru leakage, per a Nationwide Audit Plight of job characterize.
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