Flood alert remains as rain lashes Yorkshire

The Environment Agency issued the alert for the River Foulness and the Market Weighton Canal and their tributaries after heavy rainfall in the areas.

A spokesman said: “The current level at Welham Bridge is 1.41 metres above ordnance datum.

“Levels are starting to recede very slowly but will remain high throughout the evening into Wednesday June 13. Further showers are forecast during the night.”

Meanwhile it was the South East and mid Wales that have been the worst hit by the rain.

Brighton has had nearly three times the average rainfall for the whole month in 11 days, and the Environment Agency still has flood warnings for the region.

The wet weather is set to continue for the coming days, and could take a turn for the worse on Friday.

Julian Mayes, a forecaster for Meteogroup, the weather division of the Press Association, said: “The highest total – apart from mid Wales – is for Brighton, which has had 122mm (4.8in) of rain since the start of June.

“To put that into perspective, the average for the whole month is 50mm (2in).

“The reason it has been so wet in the South is because the jet stream has switched from its normal position just to the north of Scotland to down over southern England this month, and depressions follow that feature.”

On the other hand, Scotland is enjoying unusually dry weather for this time of year.

Glasgow has had 28mm (1.1in), and Oban, normally one of the wettest parts of the western Highlands, has had 9mm (0.4in) this month.

“It’s a reversal of the average weather pattern,” Mr Mayes said. “Normally it gets wetter as you go to the North West. This month it gets wetter as you go south.”

It has also been gloomy in the South. Brize Norton in Oxfordshire recorded 11 hours of sunshine in the first 11 days of the month – an average of one hour a day.