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| Flood warnings as wet weather arrives | Flood warnings as wet weather arrives |
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| Serious flooding is possible across many parts of the UK as milder temperatures thaw snow and rain moves in, forecasters have warned. | |
| Parts of Carmarthenshire and Pembrokeshire have flooded and a Met Office yellow "be aware" rain warning is in force for much of the UK. | |
| Snow continues to cause disruption on higher ground in parts of the country. | Snow continues to cause disruption on higher ground in parts of the country. |
| BBC weather forecaster Darren Bett said the heaviest overnight rain would fall in western Scotland and into Cumbria. | |
| There had been temperatures of up to 9C in parts of the UK on Saturday and the thawing of snow would continue overnight with rain falling on most parts of the UK, he said. | |
| The Environment Agency has 11 flood warnings in place, as well as more than 190 flood alerts in England and Wales. | |
| Spokesman Innes Thomson told BBC News: "The message is that there's wet weather all over the country, we've already get flooded fields, we've got localised flooding, we've got high ground water and we've got spring tides this week coming. | Spokesman Innes Thomson told BBC News: "The message is that there's wet weather all over the country, we've already get flooded fields, we've got localised flooding, we've got high ground water and we've got spring tides this week coming. |
| "So we've actually got a complete cocktail of issues and concerns for us to keep an eye on." | "So we've actually got a complete cocktail of issues and concerns for us to keep an eye on." |
| Scotland's environment agency, Sepa, meanwhile, href="http://floodline.sepa.org.uk/floodupdates/" >has also issued flood alerts and said the Scottish Borders, and Dumfries and Galloway were particularly at risk of localised surface water flooding. | |
| The Met Office's yellow weather warnings caution that heavy overnight rainfall, combined with thawing snow, could lead to localised surface water on Saturday night and into Sunday morning. | |
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