{"id":392747,"date":"2026-01-27T07:58:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T07:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/392747\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T07:58:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T07:58:09","slug":"storm-chandra-live-updates-road-closures-and-flooding-as-strong-winds-and-heavy-rain-hit-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/392747\/","title":{"rendered":"Storm Chandra live updates: Road closures and flooding as strong winds and heavy rain hit UK"},"content":{"rendered":"

A wetter than average January puts areas at high risk of floodingpublished at 07:13 GMT<\/p>\n

07:13 GMT<\/p>\n

\"\"Helen Willetts
BBC Weather<\/p>\n

As we’ve been reporting, Storm Chandra is the third named storm this month<\/a>, and it comes hot on the heels of Storm Ingrid, which at the weekend, caused widespread damage and disruption.<\/p>\n

We are starting to feel the full force of Storm Chandra, named by the Met Office on Monday morning. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s pouring rain in many areas and will reach the north of Scotland through the day. <\/p>\n

In south-west England, there’s an amber rain warning in force until 09:00 GMT. As a reminder, an amber warning can mean a danger to life, and Dartmoor has already seen in excess of 100mm of rain in the past 24 hours. <\/p>\n

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You can see from the rainfall league that up to Sunday, prior to Chandra, that some parts of the south west have already had one and a half times their average January rainfall with parts of eastern and northern Scotland receiving two and a half times. <\/p>\n

The ground right across the UK is pretty saturated and the number of flood warnings have been increasing through the night and will likely continue to through the day. <\/p>\n

So with rivers swollen, the flood risk remains high and there is now a severe flood warning in force, which means a danger to life. <\/p>\n

Theses warnings will be changing as the rain continues and filters into the river system, and downstream, so best keep up to date on river flood warnings here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A wetter than average January puts areas at high risk of floodingpublished at 07:13 GMT 07:13 GMT Helen…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":278751,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-392747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392747","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=392747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392747\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}