The Met Office has issued a weather warning as more rain falls and as South East Water lifted a hosepipe ban imposed last summer.<\/p>\n
The official forecaster issued a yellow rain warning for a wide area including much of Sussex, covering today (Thursday 5 February).<\/p>\n
The Met Office said: \u201cAn area of rain, heavy at times, will move northwards during Thursday morning.<\/p>\n
\u201cA brief drier and brighter spell may follow but this likely to be short-lived with heavy slow-moving showers through the afternoon, merging into longer spells of rain through the evening, overnight and through much of Friday.<\/p>\n
\u201cThrough this event, 20mm to 30mm is likely for many places, with some higher ground areas receiving in excess of 50mm.<\/p>\n
\u201cGiven the widely saturated ground conditions, some surface water flooding is probable, with difficult driving conditions from spray, flowing water or flooded roads in particular.\u201d<\/p>\n
South East Water said this morning: \u201cWith immediate effect, we have lifted all hosepipe restrictions across Kent and Sussex.\u201d<\/p>\n
The ban came into effect in July last year after what water bosses said was one of the driest springs on record.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Met Office has issued a weather warning as more rain falls and as South East Water lifted…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":410026,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-410025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410025","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=410025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410025\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/410026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}