{"id":14411,"date":"2019-07-31T10:33:33","date_gmt":"2019-07-31T09:33:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/?p=14411"},"modified":"2019-07-31T10:33:33","modified_gmt":"2019-07-31T09:33:33","slug":"uk-weather-heavy-rain-brings-flood-in-yorkshire-and-travel-chaos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/uk-weather-heavy-rain-brings-flood-in-yorkshire-and-travel-chaos\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Weather: Heavy rain brings flood in Yorkshire and travel chaos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Travellers are now facing disruption across Northern England due to a heavy downpour of rain overnight. The Met Office have warned storms could bring 40mm of rain in two hours in areas of the UK.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In Manchester Piccadilly and Crewe\/Stoke-on-Trent trains have been disrupted after heavy rain flooded the railway causing both lines to be blocked.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The flooding has also caused traffic delays across England. Flooding alerts have been put in place on the A5103 northbound between the M56 and the junction with the M60.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The Met Office issued\u00a0 warnings for Scotland and areas of central and northern England, with up to 40mm of rain in two hours predicted in places.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">North Yorkshire fire and rescue service said it received about 115 calls to flooding incidents in areas on Tuesday evening. <strong>A spokesman said:<\/strong> \u201cWe had several appliances, as well as our swift water rescue teams and high-volume pumping appliance within the area attending various incidents involving flooded properties and cars stuck in flood water.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>The Met Office said:<\/strong> \u201cRain will be persistent and heavy in places across parts of central, northern and eastern England and north-east Wales at first on Wednesday. During the day rain may turn more showery in places but with a higher chance of thunderstorms by afternoon.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cSome parts of northern England could see as much as 40-60mm of rain through Wednesday, while thunderstorms could produce as much as 30-40mm in one to two hours.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">A bridge has collapsed in North Yorkshire after flash flooding hit, almost a months rain hit in four hours.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/av\/embed\/p07j8qsf\/49164275\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" frameborder=\"0\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Swaledale Mountain Rescue Team\u00a0posted a picture of a collapsed bridge in Grinton on Facebook, urging motorists to &#8220;only travel if essential as many routes impassable&#8221; due to flooding.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Steve Clough, of the mountain rescue team, said:<\/strong> &#8220;The conditions were so bad that in the end only about 10 or 12 team members could make it there.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;The roads were a raging torrent and there were sheds and household oil tanks floating down them.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14412\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/07\/Swaledale-Mountain-Rescue-Team.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/07\/Swaledale-Mountain-Rescue-Team.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/07\/Swaledale-Mountain-Rescue-Team-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/07\/Swaledale-Mountain-Rescue-Team-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Travellers are now facing disruption across Northern England due to a heavy downpour of rain overnight. The Met Office have warned storms could bring 40mm of rain in two hours in areas of the UK. In Manchester Piccadilly and Crewe\/Stoke-on-Trent trains have been disrupted after heavy rain flooded the railway causing both lines to be&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":14413,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[101,43,1470,707],"class_list":["post-14411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uk-news","tag-uk","tag-uk-news","tag-uk-weather","tag-weather"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14411"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14414,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14411\/revisions\/14414"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}