Prepare passengers heading to locations throughout the south west of England have been informed to start out journeys earlier than 3pm following warnings of heavy rain and flooding.
The Met Workplace has issued a yellow climate warning for rain throughout south England till 3am on Friday which is anticipated to trigger additional flooding, energy cuts and street closures.
It added there’s a “small likelihood” that communities may grow to be reduce off by flooded roads. The Met Workplace added that the spell of rain on Thursday was falling on already saturated floor which may trigger “additional flooding and journey disruption”.
The Met Workplace stated: “The monitor of the heaviest rainfall stays very unsure, however there’s a likelihood of 20 to 30 millimetres falling in six to 9 hours throughout a portion of the warning space, with just a few locations maybe seeing 40 to 50 millimetres.
”Impacts are extra doubtless because of the present very moist floor throughout the area.”
The warning comes within the wake of Storm Henk that battered the UK on Tuesday and compelled folks to evacuate their properties, leaving one man useless from a tree falling in 90mph winds on the Isle of Wight.