Heavy rain and fog set to bring further chaos to Britain today as Met Office issues amber warning after Storm Babet downpours and gales sparked deluges and left several dead

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Britons woke up to another miserable start this morning with heavy rain and fog set to bring further chaos across the country. 

A fresh amber weather warning has been issued by the Met Office along the south coast of England with flooding and disruption predicted this morning, just days after Storm Babet rampaged through the UK, leaving several people dead.   

The warning came into effect just after 6am and will run until 8am, follows a yellow warning for heavy rain across the region and Wales, with fog expected further north.  

The Isle of Wight is at the centre of the amber warning with 30 to 40mm of rain likely and 70 to 80mm possible in some places.

The heavy downpours could bring the ‘potential for travel days and poor driving conditions’ Met Office forecaster Craig Snell said.

Britons woke up to another miserable start this morning with heavy rain and fog set to bring further chaos across the country

The Met Office issued a fresh amber weather warning has been issued along the south coast of England with flooding and disruption predicted this morning

The warning, which came into effect just after 6am and runs until 8am, follows a yellow warning for rain across the south of England

He added: ‘There could be a lot of spray on the roads and some difficult driving conditions as we start Wednesday morning. There could be some delays to public transport as well.’

The forecaster said the weather was more ‘typical’ for October than that of Storm Babet, adding that the storm was ‘thankfully long gone’.

Mr Snell said: ‘It could be a bit of a tricky rush hour, first thing, but the rain will move out of the way and it will certainly be nowhere near on the scale of what we’ve seen further north.’

The forecaster said that much of the south coast of England and south Wales was likely to receive 15-25mm of rain.

He added that some areas along the Bristol Channel and English Channel could receive 50-60mm of rainfall, but this ‘would be very localised’.

On Tuesday evening, the Met Office extended its yellow weather warning area west and north west across parts of south Wales and south-west England.

It also moved it south in the South East, removing most of East Anglia from the warning area.

A 260 year old cedar uprooted at Charlecote Patk in Warwickshire as Storm Babet passes through the area

Commuters shelter during the rain in London 

In its warning, the weather service predicts that bus and train services will probably be affected ‘with journey times taking longer’.

It also states that the flooding of a few homes and businesses is ‘likely’.

The yellow fog warning was issued just before 3am on Wednesday and runs until 11am with the Met Office predicting the fog would be ‘dense in places’ and lead to disruption.

The warning covers the east of England, from East Anglia to north of Hull, and stretches across the Midlands to take in north-east Wales and north-east England around Manchester.

At least seven people are now thought to have died in incidents related to Storm Babet, while hundreds were forced to flee their homes in Scotland and north-east England.

About 1,250 properties in England flooded during the storm, according to the Environment Agency.

A total of 13 areas broke their daily rainfall records for October last week, including sites in Suffolk, South Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, Wiltshire, Kincardineshire, North Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire, Northumberland, Derbyshire and Humberside, the Met Office said.

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