Severe rain warning sees Brit uni lad informed to drive to lessons by way of France
A uni lad was told to take a route via France to his classes in the UK because of a severe weather warning.
Ash, who was setting off from near Portsmouth, Hampshire, was due to make the 50 miles coastal drive to Brighton, East Sussex, for university, but a weather warning prompted his Apple Maps to propose an alternative route.
Instead of his usual hour-long drive, the app suggested crossing the English channel to Le Harve in northern France before driving to Dieppe and hopping on a ferry to Newhaven before another spin to Brighton, a total journey time of 11 hours.
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This mammoth journey was helpfully in order to avoid the ‘severe rain warning’. Ash posted the screenshot on X, with the caption: “Can’t wait to take this route to uni tomorrow.”
(Image: @AshPFC4/ X)
One person wrote: “That’s a lot of effort to avoid getting wet.”
A second said: “Having done that awful crawl along the A27 hundreds of times, it’s probably easier!”
A third righty pointed out: “I’d argue the new route is considerably more wet.”
His suggested commute comes as the Environment Agency had 32 warnings for ‘expected’ flooding and 95 alerts for ‘possible’ flooding in place for England today, September 24.
According to the Met Office’s latest long term weather report, an “Atlantic frontal system” is coming from Saturday, and will last until at least October 7.
(Image: Tom Wren / SWNS)
Starting with this weekend, it claims there will be a “more settled picture,” but high pressure will be building in the background starting from the south western areas of the UK.
It reads: “However, cloud and patchy rain will probably quite quickly spread into the north west, and is increasingly likely elsewhere by Sunday. Into the following week, unsettled conditions look most likely to return for many parts of the UK as Atlantic frontal systems arrive from the west.
“These would be expected to bring spells of rain, heavy in places, with a risk of strong winds. A more settled spell is possible, but less likely. Temperatures are likely to be near to or below normal throughout, and it is likely to be notably cold at the start of this period, before temperatures recover.”
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