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Easter weekend events disrupted amid flood warnings

by admineconai March 30, 2024
written by admineconai March 30, 2024
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Flooding caused by heavy rain has reportedly disrupted many Easter weekend events in the UK.

The Met Office was quoted as saying that more rain was forecast over the bank holiday weekend, with travel disruption likely as a band of heavy rain moves across England and Wales on Monday.

The Environment Agency issued 17 warnings for expected flooding across parts of Wiltshire and Gloucestershire on Saturday morning. It also issued 132 flood alerts across southern England, which means flooding is possible in those areas, after several days of heavy rainfall across the UK.

Worcestershire county cricket club’s grounds were covered in water on Saturday, while horse racing at Musselburgh racecourse, near Edinburgh, was rained off due to a waterlogged track.

Craig Snell, who is a meteorologist at the Met Office, said: “For England and Wales, generally today’s the best for the sunshine.

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“Tomorrow, if you’re up early enough, it’s not going to be a bad start but it starts to go a bit downhill as we go from the afternoon onwards, and Monday certainly looks very wet in places.”

The heaviest of the rain will fall from Yorkshire southwards and the Met Office said it was watching to see if weather warnings needed to be issued.

An area of cloud in the North Sea will move into England and Wales on Easter Sunday, leading to grey skies and light rain. A band of heavy rain will then move across England and Wales in the early hours of Monday and stay throughout the day.

Scotland and Northern Ireland will hold on to brighter weather across both days.

“If anyone’s doing any travelling on Monday, maybe allow some extra time for journeys because, regardless of whether or not we have any warnings out there, there’ll be some fairly poor travelling conditions at times,”Snell said.

Story was adapted from the Guardian.

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