The third named storm of the season is due to hit the UK tonight – just days after Storm Bert brought torrential rain and major disruption over the weekend.
The Dutch weather service KNMI named the new storm Conall as it headed towards the south of England bringing an area of low pressure.
After heavy rain in southern counties it will deepen further to bring strong winds across the Netherlands later on Wednesday and into Thursday.
The Met Office said spells of rain, heavy in places, were likely to lead to some disruption on Tuesday night and into Wednesday morning in parts of Kent, Essex, Sussex, Surrey, Hampshire, Dorset and London, between 10pm and noon on Wednesday.
Similar conditions will also strike southern Devon.
It comes as communities are still mopping up after Storm Bert, which brought torrential rain and major disruption over the weekend.
Earlier, the Met Office warned more flooding is “likely” to hit the UK this week, with further potentially heavy rain arriving across southern areas alongside colder temperatures on Wednesday.
Environment Secretary Steve Reed said its impacts “should be less severe” than they were on Sunday and Monday morning, when Storm Bert struck western parts of England and Wales, as well as Northern Ireland.
As of 13.15 on Tuesday, there was one severe flooding warning in place in England – on the River Nene at Billing Aquadrome and nearby business parks, the Environment Agency said as well as 107 flood warnings and 120 flood alerts.
The agency estimates around 218 properties have been flooded after heavy rainfall since Storm Bert arrived, while 32,000 have been protected.
At 5pm, there were four flood warnings and six flood alerts across Wales, but none had been issued in Scotland.
The naming of storms is shared by the KNMI, the UK Met Office and Ireland’s Met Eireann so that the communication of severe weather is easier.
The storms list – first launched in 2015 – for each year generally runs from early September until late August the following year, coinciding with the beginning of autumn.
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