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Devon County Council has backed South West Water's appeal for households and businesses to cut unnecessary water use, saying parts of Devon remain in severe drought despite recent rainfall.
SEPA has issued flood warnings across the Western Isles in response to sustained challenging weather and high tides scheduled for the evening of 27 October 2026, the Comhairle has said.
SEPA has issued a Flood Warning for St Margaret's Hope from about 9:30am on Tuesday 27 October, with an Amber coastal flood risk across Orkney and a Met Office Yellow wind warning from 3am to 9pm.
The Environment Agency issued 10 flood warnings and 65 alerts on Monday morning, with SEPA reporting 10 warnings and 11 alerts and Natural Resources Wales nine alerts, after Storm Boelo and Storm…
SEPA has issued a Flood Alert Update for Aberdeenshire and Aberdeen City, warning of coastal flooding from high spring tides, storm surge and wave overtopping through Tuesday and possibly into…
SSEN says it is preparing for a third storm in less than a week forecast to bring high winds and heavy rain to the north of Scotland on Tuesday, as it works to restore power after Storm Boelo.
The Scottish Fire and Rescue Service handled almost 700 calls and attended 699 incidents, 163 of them weather-related, across Scotland during Storm Boelo from 24 to 26 October.
ScotRail has closed or will close several lines in western and northern Scotland and impose speed restrictions from late Saturday night through Sunday as Storm Boelo brings gusts of up to 80mph.
Scottish ministers activated the Scottish Government's Resilience Room ahead of Storm Boelo, with an amber wind warning covering mainland Scotland and the Western Isles from Saturday evening until…
Network Rail imposed speed restrictions on routes to and from Aberdeen, Glasgow Central to Carlisle and Glasgow Central to Edinburgh Waverley as Storm Boelo brought an amber wind warning for mainland…
Network Rail imposed speed restrictions on routes to and from Aberdeen, Glasgow Central to Carlisle and Glasgow Central to Edinburgh Waverley, and ferry sailings between Largs and Cumbrae were…
SSEN has moved to Yellow Alert status in the north of Scotland ahead of Storm Boelo, with the Met Office warning of gusts up to 83mph and an Amber wind warning across Scotland.
Severe drought status has been declared for parts of Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Somerset, East Sussex and West Sussex after the driest April to September in over a century depleted reservoir levels.
Research commissioned by Flood Re and carried out by the University of Hull found that low-cost tapes kept more floodwater out of doorways than traditional sandbags in simulated flooding tests.
The Met Office named Storm Austen as the first storm of the 2026/27 season, with amber wind warnings issued for Cornwall, the Isles of Scilly and parts of Devon and yellow warnings for much of the UK.
A government-chaired taskforce is to meet this week to assess the country's flood readiness for winter, as the Met Office issues a yellow wind warning for parts of Scotland.
The Environment Agency's Flood Action Week runs from 12 to 18 October 2026, with councils and community groups across England urging households to check their flood risk and make a plan.
The Met Office says wetter than normal conditions are more likely across the UK in late autumn and early winter, as the Government launches a taskforce focused on flooding this winter.
Yorkshire moved into drought status on 9 October 2026, the Environment Agency has confirmed, as reservoir storage across England remained at 54 per cent of capacity and well below average for the time…
South East Water has removed all remaining hosepipe exemptions for its Sussex customers from 9 October 2026, leaving hosepipe use permitted only for health, safety or welfare purposes.