A large part of England is on a major alert for flooding hell after the Met Office issued a rare amber weather warning for rain. More than a month’s amount of rain is set to cause huge disruption from around midnight tonight (September 21) throughout Monday.
The Met Office said: “An area of heavy rain is expected to develop across central and southern England during the early of hours of Monday, edging north and west and then becoming slow-moving somewhere across the warning area for several hours.
“It will then weaken and move away eastwards later Monday evening and overnight. Not all counties within the warning area will be equally affected, but it seems likely that some areas will see 60-80 mm and a few places may receive 100-120mm or more. This is likely to result in travel disruption and some flooding.”
For September a total of 60 to 90mm of rain is expected in one month, but this total will be dramatically exceeded over a 24 hour period.
