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Overnight, Storm Bert continued to rage throughout the United Kingdom, causing cities to be swamped in water, more than 20,000 families to lose power, and three individuals to be murdered in a “multi-hazard event” of snow, rain, and severe winds.
As the storm continues to pound the nation today, forecasters have now warned that the combination of yesterday’s heavy rainfall and melting snow that covered parts of the north is likely to cause catastrophic flooding.
While Met Office yellow warnings for wind and rain, mostly in the south, northeast Scotland, and northern Ireland, are still in effect this morning, more than 200 flood alerts were issued for England, Wales, and Scotland overnight.
In Wales, an urgent search has been started for a dogwalker who may have been carried away by Storm Bert. It is thought that the guy went missing on Saturday while out in Trefriw walking his dog.
Along with teams from the police and medical services, the fire department sent out specialized water rescue teams to search for the guy.
Following a landslide that pounded the region last night, five adults and five children were also rescued from a home in Llanarmon Dyffryn Ceiriog, close to Llangollen in north Wales.
According to a representative for the North Wales Fire and Rescue Service, ambulance personnel were evaluating the group “somewhere warm” away from the area.
It is believed that no one has been impacted by the further landslide that was reported in the region. It follows the unfortunate deaths of three individuals on Saturday in three different accidents on the roadways.
In Shipley, West Yorkshire, shortly before one in the morning, a 34-year-old man lost his life when his vehicle “spun off the road” in the icy conditions and crashed into a wall.
A second guy in his 60s was murdered in a different event in Hampshire a few hours later when a tree fell on his car just after 7.45 a.m.
Then, on the A45 near Flore in Nottinghamshire, a silver Toyota Corolla and a dark grey Hyundai i30 Active collided, killing a man at around 8.20 am.
Later, horrifying photos showed the aftermath of a traffic accident in which a bus on the A70 in Lugar, East Ayrshire, slipped off the road. A massive tree collapsed on Wimbledon Common in London, inches from a line of driving automobiles.
Simultaneously, thousands of houses lost power: 27,000 clients in the North East, Yorkshire, and northern Lincolnshire, and 4,000 homes in the Midlands, south-west England, and South Wales.
In Ireland According to ESB Networks, at least 60,000 residences, farms, and businesses were without electricity. Power Later,
North West said that it had brought electricity back to 11,000 residences, while Northern Powergrid reported that it had brought power back to 25,600 storm-affected clients.
Southern England and parts of Wales are expected to see “dangerous coastal conditions” and disruptions due to Storm Bert today, according to the Met Office.
Particularly in the west of England, some villages could possibly be in danger of being shut off by flooded highways.
Heavy and continuous rain is expected in the southwest of England, with some regions above Dartmoor possibly receiving 100–150 mm of precipitation, the report said. Additionally, strong winds will make the effects of the nation’s heavy rains worse.