Heavy rain over latest days has led to flooding, inflicting disruption to Easter weekend occasions.
The Met Workplace mentioned extra rain was forecast over the financial institution vacation weekend, with journey disruption seemingly as a band of heavy rain strikes throughout England and Wales on Monday.
The Surroundings Company issued 17 warnings for anticipated flooding throughout elements of Wiltshire and Gloucestershire on Saturday morning.
It additionally issued 132 flood alerts throughout southern England, which suggests flooding is feasible in these areas, after a number of days of heavy rainfall throughout the UK.
Worcestershire county cricket membership’s grounds have been fully lined in water on Saturday, whereas horse racing at Musselburgh Racecourse close to Edinburgh was rained off as a result of a waterlogged observe.
Craig Snell, a meteorologist on the Met Workplace, mentioned: “For England and Wales, typically at the moment’s one of the best for the sunshine.
“Tomorrow, if you happen to’re up early sufficient, it’s not going to be a nasty begin but it surely begins to go a bit downhill as we go from the afternoon onwards, and Monday definitely seems to be very moist in locations.”
The worst of the rain might be felt from Yorkshire southwards and the Met Workplace are watching to see if climate warnings must be issued, Snell mentioned.
An space of cloud within the North Sea will spill over into England and Wales on Easter Sunday, resulting in gray situations and spots of rain.
A band of heavy rain will then transfer throughout England and Wales within the early hours of Monday and keep all through the day.
Scotland and Northern Eire will maintain on to brighter spells throughout each of the times.
Snell added: “If anybody’s doing any travelling on Monday, possibly permit some further time for journeys as a result of, no matter whether or not or not we’ve any warnings on the market, there’ll be some pretty poor travelling situations at instances.”
Musselburgh’s premier race assembly, as a result of function the £100,000 Virgin Wager Queen’s Cup, was deserted as a result of a waterlogged observe.
The course’s normal supervisor, Invoice Farnsworth, mentioned on social media: “Sadly racing at the moment has been deserted. We had 15mm of rain yesterday and we had an additional simply over 3mm this morning.
“The bottom could be very moist; it has been an extremely moist winter.
“Usually Musselburgh would take this rain no drawback however simply because it’s so moist and the water desk could be very excessive it hasn’t taken it so effectively and the bottom is saturated in locations.”
The day of racing was as a result of embody household occasions together with the annual corgi derby that includes racing canine, however this was additionally referred to as off.