{"id":418916,"date":"2026-02-11T00:09:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T00:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/418916\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T00:09:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T00:09:08","slug":"flood-warnings-in-berkshire-and-oxfordshire-continue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/418916\/","title":{"rendered":"Flood warnings in Berkshire and Oxfordshire continue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Oxford&#8217;s Radcliffe Meteorological Station reported the city saw 62% more rainfall than usual in January, while 88% of the typical monthly amount has already fallen in the first 10 days of February.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mansbridge said groundwater was now adding to the problems.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A groundwater alert remains in place for Lambourn Valley, and he warned of &#8220;lots more impact over the next month or so&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He reminded residents that flood alerts mean flooding is possible, while warnings mean it is expected. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">People in at\u2011risk areas should move valuables upstairs, relocate cars to higher ground and ensure pets are safe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;My advice is not to drive or walk through floodwater because it is often murky, you can&#8217;t see what is underneath &#8211; like a manhole cover can pop up &#8211; and there is a danger to life,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oxford&#8217;s Radcliffe Meteorological Station reported the city saw 62% more rainfall than usual in January, while 88% of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":418917,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-418916","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\/418916","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=418916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418916\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/418917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}