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UK weather: Met Office issues severe warnings as week's worth of rain falls in 24 hours

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Met Office has issued six weather alerts this weekend as parts of the UK have been battered by a month's worth of rain in just 24 hours.

The alerts cover mostly western areas from Scotland south to Plymouth.Railway lines have been blocked and the heavy and persistent rainfall has triggered flood warnings.Parts of the UK were hit by more than a month’s worth of rain in a 26-hour period.Senior meteorologist Marco Petagna said 127.6mm of rain fell at Llyn-y-Fan, Carmarthenshire, South Wales, between 6am on Friday and 8am on Saturday, and 115mm dropped at Treherbert in Mid-Glamorgan.Mr Petagna said the average rainfall for the whole of February in South Wales was 98mm.“So they’ve had more than a month’s worth of rain in 24 hours,” he said.At.

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