Flood warnings will be issued to millions of people on Wednesday as the heat wave is followed by more severe rain and thunderstorms in the UK.
The Bureau of Meteorology issued yellow thunderstorm warnings forEngland and Wales due to further flash floods, transport disruptions and power outages. issued.
Weather warnings remain in effect for Wednesday in southern England, with flooded roads likely to divide communities and fast-flowing water and deep floods potentially life-threatening there is.
The Environment Agency has issued 19 flood warnings in theMidlands and areas of the South East of England.
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Authorities moved Yorkshire into a formal drought state on Tuesday, following parts of the South West, South and Central England and East England.
Heavy rains run off very dry land, causing surface water to flood and not seep into the ground to alleviate drought-stricken areas, experts say.
Videos and photos shared on social media show towns in southern England and Wales, including Newquay in Cornwall, Bishop's Toughton in Devon, Haywards Heath in West Sussex and Port Talbot in South West Wales. It showed torrential rains and floods to hit. , Bridport, Dorset.
One Twitter user shared a video of the Newquay floods and wrote: Our roads are flooded with #Newquay.
Another Twitter user in Bishop's Toughton, North Devon, said:
Scotland also saw transport disruptions on the rail network and roads on Tuesday following heavy rain showers.
ScotRail warns passengers of expected delays on some routes and some speed limits are in place, while Perth has the Network Rail said it was dealing with flooding at its stations.
Tourists walking through Whitehall in Westminster, central London, in the rain (Victoria Jones/PA)
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Local authorities in Somerset said more than 50 tonnes of mud had fallen after a landslide at Combe Flory on Monday. said they had moved off the A358, adding that the road was expected to reopen between 3pm and 4pm.
Meanwhile, swimmers have been warned of sewage and pollution at several beaches along the UK coastline in connection with heavy rains.
According to data collected by his Surfers Against Sewage (SAS) environmental campaign group, beaches in Cornwall, Devon, Sussex, Essex, Lancashire, Lincolnshire, Northumberland and flowing into the sea.
A SAS spokeswoman said other pollution warnings may not be related to heavy rains and that beach-goers should check her interactive map on her website before swimming. recommend to.
JMA spokesman Stephen Dixon said:
“It is important to note that thunderstorms can occur anywhere within the warning area.
A scene at Tameside, Stalybridge, Greater Manchester, where the body of a 14-year-old girl was recovered from the water after being in trouble (Steven Allen/ PA)
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Dixon said a thunderstorm threat in the South will continue overnight and through Wednesday.
"Early Thursday morning, the main risk we are looking at is the Southeast," he said.
``Risk diminishes with each passing day.''
Elsewhere, the body of a teenage girl was found, but at Staley Bridge, west of Manchester. Ambulance crews rushed to Crowswood Road in Greater Manchester and received a call on Monday that one person had fallen into the water, Greater Manchester Police said.
