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A severe flood warning – meaning a danger to life – has been issued for a village in Powys as Storm Babet continues. The warning, issued by Natural Resources Wales on Saturday morning, covers ...
Natural Resources Wales has 12 flood alerts in place, including in Powys, Ceredigion and Monmouthshire. However, the Met Office said conditions were improving with “a quieter spell of weather ...
Between 200 and 300 properties in the area have been affected by flooding, councillor Andrew Morgan, leader of Rhondda Cynon Taf County Borough Council, told a press conference on Sunday.
Storm Henk brought damaging winds and persistent rain to parts of England and Wales on 2 January, prompting severe weather warnings to be issued across the country. [1] This led to more than 300 flood warnings being issued by the Environment Agency, with extensive flooding affecting the River Trent, Severn, Avon and Thames. [2]
The major national floods of Easter 1998 led to significant post event reviews identifying areas of improvement in terms of flood forecasting, monitoring and warnings Easter 1998 floods and Bye report. The Environment Agency's response included establishing a National Flood Warning Centre which operated between 1999 and 2003.
A flood warning is closely linked to the task of flood forecasting.The distinction between the two is that the outcome of flood forecasting is a set of forecast time-profiles of channel flows or river levels at various locations, while "flood warning" is the task of making use of these forecasts to make decisions about whether warnings of floods should be issued to the general public or ...
Major incident as Met Office issues weather warnings for heavy rain and strong winds across large swathes of the country
The Floodline is the flood warning and information service used in the United Kingdom to issue flood alerts and warnings to the public, emergency organisations and businesses. The system uses observed data from rain, river and coastal gauges, combined with weather forecasts to accurately predict the likelihood and timing of flooding.