Wet, wet wetter AND NEXT WE’LL BE FACED WITH POLAR SNOWSTORM
BRITAIN is on course for the November ever following our drenching in October.
The odds of this month being the wettest November on record have been slashed to just 1- 2 after the weekend deluge.
The Environment Agency had 32 flood warnings in place in England yesterday, stretching from the south west coast in Cornwall to the Humber estuary and Carlisle in the north west.
And “heavy and prolonged rain” is expected to bring flooding to parts of north western Scotland tomorrow, forecasters say.
Britain also faces snow and freezing temperatures in a “rollercoaster” weather cycle.
The Met Office said the mercury will plunge by as much as 7C on
Thursday across all areas of the UK.
Tom Morgan, a meteorologist at the
Met Office, said: “It’s going to be a bit of a rollercoaster this week with a spell of unsettled weather on the way.
Gales
wettest recordbreaking
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“What we will see on Thursday is very windy and severe gales and even some snow in the mountainous regions of
Scotland which could make for very unpleasant conditions.
“The south of
England could also become frosty as a jet stream of low pressure emerges from Scandinavia dragging the temperature down to a high of 9C.”
He advised people to check the Met Office website for potential flooding that could disrupt public transport and damage buildings.
Bookies Coral say the odds have steadily tumbled on this November being the wettest ever, having been 2- 1 in the first week of the month.
“It’s been one of the wettest weekends in memory, which is quite something given how much rain we have had this year,” said Coral’s Harry Aitkenhead. “And it means that this month is now firmly on course to be our wettest ever November.”
Saturday October 3 was the wettest day for Ukwide rainfall since records began in 1891.