{"id":404369,"date":"2026-02-02T19:51:29","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T19:51:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/404369\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T19:51:29","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T19:51:29","slug":"flooding-expected-in-devon-and-cornwall-as-heavy-rain-forecast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/404369\/","title":{"rendered":"Flooding &#8216;expected&#8217; in Devon and Cornwall as heavy rain forecast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In its four warnings for Devon and Cornwall, the EA said high tides were expected to cause flooding.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It added: &#8220;We are closely monitoring the situation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Avoid coastal roads, footpaths and car parks, which may be flooded and activate any flood protection products you may have.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Flood alerts, which said flooding was &#8220;possible&#8221;, have been issued in the following locations:<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">South Cornwall coast from Land&#8217;s End to Lizard Point<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">West Cornwall rivers<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">River Cober<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Tidal Fal Estuary<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">South Devon rivers<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">South Devon coast from Start Point to Dawlish Warren<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">River Dart area<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">River Teign area<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">South Devon estuaries<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Rivers Clyst, Culm and their estuaries<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">North Devon coast from Hartland Point to Lynmouth<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In its four warnings for Devon and Cornwall, the EA said high tides were expected to cause flooding.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":404370,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-404369","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\/404369","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=404369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/404370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}