The flooding problems of recent weeks have not gone away: as of Thursday morning, there are still 81 flood warnings in force, the majority of which are in Dorset, Wiltshire and Somerset. The warnings are for both river flooding and groundwater flooding.
Areas experiencing river flooding should improve over the next few days but it is a different story in terms of groundwater.
Some areas are experiencing flooding because of their geology, with porous chalk below the surface acting like an enormous sponge.
That forms an aquafer that is a really important source of drinking water in southern England.
But that layer of chalk is saturated and the groundwater flooding we are seeing as a result is likely to last a great deal longer, probably for many days or even weeks ahead.