Month of rain in days

PARTS of the UK have been battered by a month of rainfall in just the first 10 days of August, forecasters say.

The Met Office has said that 46mm of rain has so far fallen in Greater London, which usually sees 53mm in the whole of August, while West Sussex has seen 98 per cent of its average rainfall for the month. Parts of Surrey and areas in the south east have also had up to 85pc of their total rainfall for August in just over a week.