Britain faces a leap day lashing as an additional day’s rain on is ready to make floody February the wettest for at the least 258 years.
Forecasters have predicted seven days of washouts forward with one other inch to 2 inches’ rain due for a lot of.
But Thursday (February 29) itself might be the wettest day to squeeze much more rain into this sodden month. The Met Office warned of downpours within the South-East on Monday (February 26), extra rain bands on Tuesday (February 27) and Wednesday (February 28), then heavy rain on Thursday, with moist circumstances persevering with into the weekend.
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The Environment Agency issued 227 flood alerts, with the South and Midlands set to be worst-hit in coming days.
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The month thus far is verging on the wettest February since information started 258 years in the past in 1766 for England and Wales, with 129mm of rain, two-and-a-half instances the 48mm common, Met Office figures present.
And Central England wants simply 5mm extra rain by Thursday to interrupt its total February document.
A Met Office forecaster stated: “Monday has rain and stronger winds within the south-east, with rain spreading on Tuesday, and Wednesday seeing additional rain arrive from the west.
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“Rain will turn heavy at times through Thursday as as a broad band of cloud and rain is likely to spread across much of the UK.
“Friday and through the weekend has areas of showers sometimes banding together for longer spells of rain.”
Channel 4 weatherman Liam Dutton stated: “Some locations have seen 3 times the typical rainfall thus far this February.
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“The ground is currently saturated quite widely across the UK, making flooding possible even with modest amounts of rainfall.”
The Environment Agency stated: “Flooding is probable across parts of the South and Midlands on Monday, with river response into Tuesday in the South-East.
“Groundwater flooding is possible throughout this week parts of the South.“Lands, roads and some properties may flood and there may be travel disruption.”
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