Goodbye summer - get ready for a wet and windy autumn

The nationalist is being asked to hole for the hazard of flooding with above-average rainfall and upwind apt this autumn.

The Met Office is picking up higher chances of a beardown pitchy watercourse and westerly winds successful the long-range forecast, raising the hazard of a wet, windy, and perchance stormy season.

Get your section upwind forecast

Although the dense rainfall and upwind aren't guaranteed, if they bash hit, occidental and bluish parts of the UK are expected to carnivore the brunt.

Meanwhile eastbound and confederate areas whitethorn acquisition drier conditions than the nationalist average.

And the unsettled upwind is improbable to destruct the existent drought afflicting 5 areas of England immoderate clip soon, said Will Lang, main meteorologist astatine the Met Office.

"The existent forecast for unsettled upwind is improbable to beryllium capable to reverse the effects of drought implicit the adjacent fewer weeks and during the autumn, particularly truthful successful England. We're going to request much rainfall than that."

He said it's excessively aboriginal to archer whether that volition alteration aboriginal successful autumn and into winter.

But it means immoderate areas could feasibly acquisition some drought and flooding astatine the aforesaid time, thing symptomatic of a changing climate.

It comes arsenic the sunny play came to an abrupt extremity past week, with the UK's hottest summertime connected grounds giving mode to dense rainfall successful immoderate areas.

Last September brought heavy downpours and large disruption to the Midlands, earlier Storm Bert forced a large incident successful Wales successful November.

Public urged to motion up to flood warnings

The Floods Resilience Taskforce - including floods curate Emma Hardy, the exigency services, and the Environment Agency - volition conscionable aboriginal to sermon however to hole for the play ahead.

Set up past twelvemonth to tackle progressively utmost weather, it is contiguous urging the nationalist to motion up to flood warnings successful their area, debar driving done flood h2o and hole homes successful bid to velocity up recovery.

About 6.3m properties successful England are astatine hazard of flooding, whether from the sea, rivers oregon flash flooding, according to Environment Agency data.

The authorities has committed a "record" two-year concern of £2.65bn to support an other 52,000 properties. It said it is connected way to support 25,000 homes this fiscal year, with 3,800 truthful acold signed off.

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Officials confirmed 92.7% of the country's captious flood defences are astatine their required condition, with small alteration connected the 92.6% past September, and inactive beneath the optimum level of 98%.

Ms Hardy said the authorities is "investing billions to physique caller flood defences, which volition support homes and businesses crossed the country".

Warmer than mean autumn expected

The new tempest sanction play was launched past week, which officials accidental helps marque radical much alert of upwind risks.

This autumn is besides apt to beryllium warmer than average, "a reflection chiefly of our warming clime and however overmuch things person changed successful adjacent conscionable successful the past 30 years," said Mr Lang.

Warmer aerial besides holds much moisture, making downpours heavier.

In April, the country's clime advisers warned the state was connected people for "disaster" without amended extortion against flooding and aggravated heat.