{"id":418039,"date":"2026-02-10T13:09:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T13:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/418039\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T13:09:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T13:09:08","slug":"roads-and-homes-flooded-and-100-warnings-issued-across-uk-live-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/418039\/","title":{"rendered":"Roads and homes flooded, and 100 warnings issued across UK &#8211; live updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If it feels like the rain hasn&#8217;t stopped this year, you might be on to somethingpublished at 11:37 GMT<\/p>\n<p>11:37 GMT<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-3u1n9h-Contributor etflsgg2\">Chris Fawkes<br \/>BBC Weather presenter<\/p>\n<p>      <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A map of January 2026 rainfall totals. In the background is a black and white image of extensive flooding around Fordgate and Moorland in Somerset\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/8575f93e-d492-4107-9317-b096dd3ec58e.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"2560\" height=\"1440\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, MET OFFICE\/BBCImage caption, <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A map of January 2026 rainfall totals. In the background, extensive flooding around Fordgate and Moorland in Somerset<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Parts of the UK have been hit with a real deluge so far this year with Cornwall and County Down recording their wettest January on record.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It&#8217;s been particularly wet in southern England, Northern Ireland and East Scotland. If it feels like the rain just hasn&#8217;t stopped this year, you might be on to something, Cardinham in Cornwall has recorded some rain every single day of the year so far!<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Katesbridge (County Down) and Aboyne (Aberdeenshire) recorded nearly 4 times their January average rainfall, and history is repeating itself this month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">We&#8217;re not even at the half way point of the month and Aboyne has already had well over double the February average rainfall.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Why so wet?<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Around the 17th January a blocking area of high pressure developed in Scandinavia, it&#8217;s still there to this day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This has prevented areas of low pressure from moving beyond the UK so they&#8217;ve become slow-moving bringing very wet weather, with southwest winds to the south of the UK and southeasterly winds to the north of the UK.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This wind pattern is responsible for the distribution of rain. It&#8217;s worth pointing out that it hasn&#8217;t been wet everywhere. Northwest England and west Scotland had a much drier January than normal, and parts of the Highlands have only recorded 1mm of rain so far this month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This Scandinavian blocking area of high pressure is finally going to budge this week, as it does our weather patterns will become more typical next week. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There will still be rain around as we&#8217;d expect in winter, but some of the wettest weather will return to west Scotland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The rain won&#8217;t be as extreme in east Scotland. In the southwest of England, it won&#8217;t rain every single day, there will be drier and sunnier days between weather our systems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If it feels like the rain hasn&#8217;t stopped this year, you might be on to somethingpublished at 11:37&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":418040,"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-418039","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\/418039","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=418039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/418040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}