London (Parliament Politics Magazine) – A fresh weather alert has been issued for more serious rain and potential flooding in London.
The Met Office has placed a yellow warning for much of England and Wales, with areas of London also expected to be bound by the wet weather between 5 pm on Thursday and 10 am on Friday. Likely, the weather circumstances will again cause travel disruption while there is a “small chance” of properties undergoing power cuts and becoming flooded.
How much rainfall is expected in London this week?
Some locations are expected to witness as much as 40-60 mm of rainfall in a period of four to six hours. This is in complement to another yellow warning previously issued for Thursday and which was predicted to see the north-east of England pelted by heavy rain.
Forecasters say the Pennines and North York Moors could have between 80-100mm of rain.
The alerts come as heavy rainfall left parts of London submerged this week – generating widespread travel disruption on Monday, and harm to properties as parts of the UK saw more than the monthly average rainfall in 24 hours.
How have previous rainfalls impacted London’s transport?
The extreme weather witnessed part of the District Line and London Overground stopped all day, while the Metropolitan and Piccadilly Lines were also part-suspended on Monday afternoon. Mainline trains were also struck due to a combination of flooding on the tracks and train shortages. Outside the capital, places of Bedfordshire were affected by the circumstances alongside Northamptonshire, where flooding has caused the evacuation of 43 people from a holiday park.
On Tuesday, firefighters and police functioned to evacuate residents until late at night at Billing Aquadrome holiday park, Northamptonshire Fire and Rescue Service stated, with only a “very limited” number of people remaining at the site. Sites including Buckinghamshire, Northamptonshire and Warwickshire were among the worst hit on Monday, the Met Office stated.