Homes and businesses could flood, power supplies could be affected, and some surface water flooding is likely because of the widely saturated ground, the Met Office<\/a> said.<\/p>\n South West<\/a> England and South Wales<\/a> have faced 50% more rainfall than is usual for January, with rain every day of the year so far.<\/p>\n Overall, England received 150% of its long-term average rainfall last month, according to the Environment Agency (EA), with the South West region seeing 184% of the long term average rainfall in January.<\/p>\n Image: In just the first three days of this month, the South East had received 32% of the long-term average rainfall for February, the EA said.<\/p>\n Rainfall totals varied from 13mm in England’s east to 43mm in the South West for the week from 28 January to 3 February, the agency added.<\/p>\n And forecasters predict that the rain will still be falling daily in those areas by Sunday.<\/p>\n “Unfortunately, there’s no end in sight,” said Dan Stroud, operational meteorologist with the Met Office.<\/p>\n Another band of rain in the South West will travel northwards on Friday with heavy bursts, he added.<\/p>\n Share<\/p>\n \n Kitesurfers use storm water in Somerset\n <\/p>\n And it is more of the same on Saturday, with heavy showers lashing the south in the morning, before gradually pushing up into Wales and the Midlands.<\/p>\n The southern and western parts of the UK will see yet another band of rain arrive on Sunday, it is predicted, though it should be slightly drier elsewhere.<\/p>\n Check the forecast for your area<\/a><\/p>\n Image: Northern Ireland<\/a> is also subject to a yellow rain warning until midnight on Friday.<\/p>\n While in Scotland, persistent cloud and rain will continue to affect the east of the country, including Aberdeen<\/a>.<\/p>\n Read more: The city has seen no sunshine for two weeks – a record-setting period of gloom unrivalled in the area since records began in 1957.<\/p>\n Yet parts of East Anglia, the South East and perhaps west Scotland could see some brightness breaking through on Saturday.<\/p>\n Image: Mr Stroud said: “Very little in the way of change, and the reason for it really is that we’ve got a big area of high pressure way out to the far north and east of the country, and that’s stopping areas of low pressure from moving through.<\/p>\n “Until that area of high pressure sort of shifts out of the way, we’re not really going to see much of a change in the forecast.<\/p>\n “At the same time, we’ve got the jet stream way to the south, bringing exceptional wet weather to Spain and Portugal.”<\/p>\n According to the yellow warning covering South West England and parts of Wales, up to 50mm of rain is predicted in higher places, with downpours of 30mm being widespread.<\/p>\n Higher places in Northern Ireland could face up to 80mm of rain, but 20mm is expected in the majority of places.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There is “no end in sight to the rain”, forecasters have warned, despite downpours having lashed Britain every…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":411336,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-411335","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-kingdom","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-greatbritain","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411335","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=411335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411335\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/411336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"A](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/skynews-weather-met-office_7157107.jpg\")
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\n A Met Office weather warning map for Friday, 6 February 2026. Pic: Met Office<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/skynews-somerset-levels-kitesurfing_7150421.jpg\")
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\n Floodwater in Burrowbridge, Somerset, during Storm Chandra last month. Pic: PA<\/p>\n
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\n Vehicles stranded in Antrim, Northern Ireland, during Storm Chandra last month. Pic: Reuters<\/p>\n