Drier however cooler circumstances are forecast extensively for components of the UK battered by latest heavy rain and flooding.
Scotland will see some heavy showers and attainable thunder, extending later to components of northern England, however this will probably be remoted and localised whereas additional climate warnings are “unlikely”, the Met Workplace mentioned.
Components of central and southern England skilled a month’s value of rain in a matter of hours, resulting in widespread travel disruption and damage to properties.
Flooding in Bedfordshire was among the many most extreme, together with alongside the A421 street, which Nationwide Highways mentioned would in all probability stay closed on Tuesday in each instructions between Bedford and Marston Moretaine.
It added that it couldn’t “present a timeline for the street to reopen”.
Woburn in Bedfordshire had its wettest day on report with 132mm (5.2 inches) of rainfall recorded in 48 hours, greater than double the September common, the Met Workplace mentioned.
Many components of Oxfordshire, Warwickshire and Northamptonshire additionally noticed greater than 100mm of rain over the identical interval.
The Atmosphere Company issued greater than 35 flood warnings, that means flooding was anticipated, and greater than 90 flood alerts, that means flooding was attainable.
Liam Eslick, meteorologist on the Met Workplace, mentioned Tuesday could be a “a lot drier day for most individuals”.
There could also be heavier bursts of rain within the South East, with some mild, remoted showers, although “nothing just like the torrential rain that we have seen over the past couple of days”, he added.
Mr Eslick mentioned the heaviest rain on Tuesday could be in and round Scotland, with any floor water flooding on roads very localised.
River ranges ought to begin to lower to extra manageable ranges elsewhere in the direction of the tip of the day as extra water seeps into the bottom.
Temperatures can even start to drop, bringing a “more energizing really feel” in comparison with latest days, Mr Eslick mentioned.
Highs of round 16C are forecast for southern England, whereas components of Scotland will peak at 11C.
“Because the system that we’ve got had strikes its means off in the direction of the east, we begin to get a bit extra of a northerly circulate so we’re bringing in these cooler northerly winds,” the forecaster mentioned.
A gradual decline in temperatures will proceed by Wednesday and Thursday however it’s unlikely any frost will develop with loads of cloud round.