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Luke O'Reilly

Storm Sebastien: Weather warnings in place as UK braces for more flooding

More flooding is expected across the UK this week with Storm Sebastien set to bring three inches of rain and 50mph gales.

Several yellow weather warnings are in place, as Sebastien is due to hit the south on Tuesday after coming up from the Azores.

The Met Office forecast gales in the South and up to three inches of rain between Sunday and Wednesday in the South and flood-hit North-East.

This rain will travel eastwards on Tuesday as another band of rain comes into the southwest, before remnants of Tropical Storm Sebastien reach the UK.

Oli Claydon, a spokesman for the Met Office said: "A yellow rain warning is in place from 6am on Tuesday morning until 3pm Wednesday afternoon in South West England and parts of Wales, going up as to Oxford and reaching as far east as Reading.

"There is another warning for North East England from 6am Wednesday until 6am Thursday, between Newcastle and Hull."

A car drives through floodwater after water has run off fields surrounding Clyst St Mary (PA)

He added that temperatures will then drop towards the end of the week, with frost in the north of the UK by Friday.

"This could spread to the rest of the UK by the weekend", he said.

"There could be snow on some of the hills in Scotland."

The Environmental Agency has issued flood warnings for parts of the UK: Barrow upon Humber; Low Barlings and the Short Ferry Area; low lying properties in the Upper Hull catchment; and Roam Drain and River Hull at Hempholme.

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