A motorist is helped by military after removing stranded on a flooded highway in Essex. Photograph: Ian Nicholson/PA
Flood warnings sojourn in force currently notwithstanding a little remit from the torrent of sleet that strike the UK over the weekend.
The Environment Agency had eighteen inundate warnings in place this sunrise and 140 inundate watches, nonetheless it pronounced it was not awaiting any flooding of property.
The superfluous risk of flooding – the warnings request to north-east England, tools of East Anglia, and the tide Arun in West Sussex – is acted by tide H2O still using down after the week finish rainfall, the group said.
A mouthpiece pronounced the continue foresee for the week was seeking some-more staid and no serious inundate warnings were in place. "It"s really most an softened picture," she said.
The tail finish of a large-scale continental charge flicked opposite southern and eastern counties over the weekend. The UK longed for the full force of the front, that last night was reported to have killed up to 50 people in France as it additionally smashed Spain, Portugal and Germany. Three people were killed in Spain, dual in Germany and one in Portugal. More than a million homes were left but energy in France after 100mph winds struck.
In Britain, a Vanessa Robson, 53, drowned when her Land Rover was swept afar by a routinely amiable tide at Hartoft on the North York moors on Friday.
On Saturday night the Environment Agency sealed the Thames Barrier for the second time in less than twenty-four hours, as all England and Wales was put on inundate watch.
February saw rainfall levels 20% higher than average, at 99mm in England and Wales and 72mm in Scotland. The soggiest mark was Okehampton in Devon, that reached 157mm.
The Met Office, that designates 1 Mar as the initial day of spring, nonetheless traditionally it is twenty-one March, was presaging especially excellent continue currently but with wintry showers in the north.
East Coast trains pronounced the line in between Inverness and Perth was sealed until serve notice since of complicated layer and a deputy train use was running.
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