BRITS are braced for more heavy rain and soggy conditions after a horror deluge caused chaos yesterday.
Rainfall is expected to get heavier and wider over the next couple of days with the latest map revealing over 40 flood warnings issued.
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The Environment Agency has issued 41 warnings for possible flooding and 171 alerts for potential flooding – 40 more than Tuesday.
Yesterday, Paddington station was forced to shut amid flooding and heavy rain.
Northern parts of the UK will experience a slow-moving band of rain today.
Meanwhile, southern England and Wales can expect drier conditions with mostly cloudy skies.
As this band moves away from Northern Scotland, leaving it with windy conditions and gales, it will cover Scotland, Northern Ireland, Northern England and Wales.
Heaviest rain is expected in Northern England of up to 8mm per hour.
Rainfall of up to 26mm was recorded in Sennybridge, Wales, yesterday.
“For much of the country it’s a cloudy start for the day and it’s also wet across Scotland, northern England as well as Wales,” said Met Office meteorologist Clare Nasir.
“The rain clears Northern Ireland through the morning. The central belt is seeing more cloud, but that should clear up as well.”
But it won’t all be bad news on the weather front with some milder temperatures to come,
The weather will remain exceptionally mild for this time of the year with mercury reaching around 14 or 15C in England, especially in the west.
And for Scotland and Northern Ireland there will be some sunshine through the afternoon.
It comes after Brits heading to Cheltenham Racecourse yesterday for day one battled the wet and wild weather.
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