Europe Storms 2014: More Storms Coming for United Kingdom as Severe Flood Warnings Reissued

By: By Sean Breslin

Published: February 26,2014

 

 

 

 

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Animal rescue personnel walk with a boat in the flooded part of the town of Staines-upon-Thames, England, Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2014. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)

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The endless parade of storms across the United Kingdom this winter have left flooding, damage and even a few deaths, and several additional storm systems are expected to push through the area before the end of the week.
Rainfall is expected to begin Thursday for southwestern England – a region that has seen some of the worst flooding – and may intensify through Friday and Saturday, according to Leon Brown, meteorologist for The Weather Channel UK. On Saturday alone, more than an inch of rain could fall in parts of southwestern England, Brown added.
That's really bad news for an area that has already seen homes flooded by heavy rain and power knocked out by strong winds several times this winter.
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Severe flood alerts have been issued for Somerset, warning residents of a danger to life with the coming storms, according to The Telegraph. Lower-risk flood alerts have been issued for Hampshire, Wiltshire and Greater London.
Just days after temperatures reached nearly 60 degrees Fahrenheit in London, snowfall is in the forecast for parts of Wales and central England.
Earlier this week, unexploded bombs emerged from beneath beaches in southwestern England and western Wales, according to a Daily Mail report. A highly active winter season of heavy surf and damaging winds from storm systems battering the coast led to erosion which brought World War II bombs out of the sand.
The report also states that officials are worried the River Thames may see similar erosion that could expose more unexploded bombs dropped by the Luftwaffe in the early 1940s.
(MORE: Ice Jams Raising Flood Fears in These States)
A Plymouth Herald report says six resurfaced bombs have been defused in the last six weeks along British beaches, and officials have warned citizens to stay away from any additional bombs they discover and call police immediately.
Along a beach in North Devon that was used to train soldiers for the D-Day invasion, an old pill box has been found following the storms, as well as other artifacts, the report added.

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