{"id":274117,"date":"2025-07-19T07:18:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-19T07:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/274117\/"},"modified":"2025-07-19T07:18:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T07:18:10","slug":"weather-latest-britain-braces-for-floods-as-thunderstorm-warnings-come-into-force-uk-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/274117\/","title":{"rendered":"Weather latest: Britain braces for floods as thunderstorm warnings come into force | UK News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Amber thunderstorm warning<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Warning:\u00a0<\/b>Torrential rain and thunderstorms could lead to some significant surface water flooding.<\/p>\n<p>Flooding of homes and businesses is likely and could happen quickly.<\/p>\n<p>Fast-flowing or deep floodwater is likely, causing danger to life.<\/p>\n<p>Some communities are likely to be cut off if roads flood, with\u00a0 delays or cancellations to trains and buses.<\/p>\n<p>Power cuts are likely to occur.<\/p>\n<p><b>Where: <\/b>London, and the South East and East of England<\/p>\n<p><b>When:\u00a0<\/b>Until 11am<\/p>\n<p><b>Yellow thunderstorm warning<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Warning:\u00a0<\/b>Heavy rain and thunderstorms may lead to disruption, including road closures and delays or cancellations to trains and buses.<\/p>\n<p>Flooding of homes and businesses could happen quickly and fast-flowing or deep floodwater is possible, causing a danger to life.<\/p>\n<p>Power cuts may occur and some communities might become cut off if roads flood.<\/p>\n<p><b>Where:<\/b> South East, East, North East, North West and South West of England, East and West Midlands, London, and Yorkshire and Humber.<\/p>\n<p><b>When: <\/b>Until 9pm<\/p>\n<p><b>Yellow rain warning<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Warning:\u00a0<\/b>Heavy rain and isolated thunderstorms may cause some flooding.<\/p>\n<p>A slight chance of power cuts and a small chance that homes and businesses could be flooded.<\/p>\n<p>Delays or cancellations to train and bus services are likely in flooded areas.<\/p>\n<p><b>Where:\u00a0<\/b>Central, Tayside and Fife, Grampian, Highland, South West Scotland, Lothian Borders, Strathclyde, Northumberland and Cumbria.<\/p>\n<p><b>When: <\/b>From\u00a04pm until noon tomorrow<\/p>\n<p><b>Yellow rain warning<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Warning:\u00a0<\/b>Heavy rain and isolated thunderstorms may cause some localised flooding.<\/p>\n<p>There is a slight chance of power cuts and a small chance that homes and businesses could be flooded.<\/p>\n<p>Expect a slight chance of delays or cancellations to trains and buses, and that some communities will become cut off by flooded roads.<\/p>\n<p>There is a small chance of fast-flowing or deep floodwater causing danger to life.<\/p>\n<p><b>Where: <\/b>South West of England<\/p>\n<p><b>When: <\/b>From noon tomorrow until 3am Monday<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Amber thunderstorm warning Warning:\u00a0Torrential rain and thunderstorms could lead to some significant surface water flooding. Flooding of homes&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":274118,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5018,3,4],"tags":[748,393,4884,1144,712,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-274117","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-britain","8":"category-uk","9":"category-united-kingdom","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-northern-ireland","14":"tag-scotland","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom","17":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114878683820176715","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274117\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/274118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}