{"id":520727,"date":"2025-10-22T23:03:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T23:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/520727\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T23:03:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T23:03:14","slug":"weather-warning-issued-for-birmingham-as-storm-benjamin-increases-chance-of-accidents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/520727\/","title":{"rendered":"Weather warning issued for Birmingham as Storm Benjamin increases &#8216;chance of accidents&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Risk of heavy rain in Birmingham tomorrow as Met Office shares alert<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1_JS338736195.jpg\" alt=\"Heavy rain is set to hit Coventry and Warwickshire \" loading=\"eager\"  \/>Heavy rain is set to hit Coventry and Warwickshire (Image: Jeff Moore\/PA Wire)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"birminghammail\">Birmingham residents have been warned of heavy rain as Storm Benjamin hits parts of Britain.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"birminghammail\">The Met Office has issued a yellow weather alert for the city, among other areas of the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"birminghammail\">The warning is in place for most of Thursday, October 23, from midnight until 6pm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"birminghammail\"><strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\">READ MORE: <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/black-country\/prolific-shoplifter-goes-chocolate-crime-32731353\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Prolific shoplifter goes on &#8216;chocolate&#8217; crime spree after supermarket ban<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"birminghammail\">Drivers were told to expect an &#8220;increased chance of accidents&#8221;, longer journey times and &#8220;difficult driving conditions.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"birminghammail\">Spray on the roads and flooding was also predicted, according to the alert.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"birminghammail\">The yellow weather warning said: &#8220;Risk of heavy rain for southern and eastern parts of Britain associated with Storm Benjamin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"birminghammail\">&#8220;[Expect] Spray and flooding on roads leading to difficult driving conditions and increased chance of accidents, making journey times longer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"birminghammail\">&#8220;Public transport affected in places with some journey times taking longer. Flooding of a few homes and businesses is likely.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"birminghammail\">There were no other warnings for <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Birmingham<\/a> for the rest of the week, with Thursday set to be the only day affected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Risk of heavy rain in Birmingham tomorrow as Met Office shares alertHeavy rain is set to hit Coventry&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":520728,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,497,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-520727","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-birmingham-weather","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115420319724883457","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520727","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=520727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520727\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/520728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}