{"id":292876,"date":"2025-12-01T10:53:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T10:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/292876\/"},"modified":"2025-12-01T10:53:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T10:53:10","slug":"uk-weather-met-office-amber-warning-in-force-for-heavy-rain-and-flooding-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/292876\/","title":{"rendered":"UK weather: Met Office amber warning in force for heavy rain and flooding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Winter &#8211; meteorologically speaking &#8211; has started on a very wet note with rain across much of the UK.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">That trend is likely to continue for most of Monday and turn particularly heavy at times.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Rainfall totals will build quite widely but with very saturated ground there are numerous yellow Met Office warnings in force.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A more severe amber <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/weather\/warnings\/weather\" class=\"ssrcss-16fdtb5-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Met Office warning<\/a> is in force for south Wales until 23:59 GMT.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Between 20 and 40mm (0.8 and 1.6in) of rain is expected to fall widely here, with some south-western facing hills seeing nearer to 120mm (4.7in).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This would mean a month&#8217;s worth of rain would fall in just one day. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Extensive flooding is possible along with disruption on the road and rail network, loss of power and communities potentially cut off. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Met Office has also warned that fast flowing or deep floodwater is possible, causing a danger to life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Winter &#8211; meteorologically speaking &#8211; has started on a very wet note with rain across much of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":292775,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-292876","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292876\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/292775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}