The Met Office has warned that there is 'no end in sight' to Britain's prolonged wet weather, with further rainfall expected on Sunday and into next week. Dozens of flood warnings remain in place across Great Britain, particularly in the south-west and Midlands.
The Environment Agency has issued 85 flood warnings, meaning flooding is expected, and 245 flood alerts, indicating possible flooding, stretching from North Yorkshire to Cornwall and from the Welsh borders to Norfolk. Natural Resources Wales has 11 flood alerts, while Scotland has one flood warning and five alerts.
It has rained every day for the last 37 days in the UK. Aberdeen has recorded zero hours of sunshine since 21 January, and Sheffield has had no sunshine so far this month. In the first three days of February, the south-east received nearly a third of its average monthly rainfall.
Met Office operational meteorologist Dan Stroud said: 'Unfortunately, there's no end in sight.' Newcastle's jumps meeting on Sunday was abandoned due to a waterlogged track, with 13mm of rain in the last 24 hours and 56mm in the past week.
Rain has fallen every day of 2026 in the south-west and south Wales, with both regions experiencing 50% more rainfall than usual for January. The UK's wettest February on record was in 2020, with 213.7mm of rainfall including Storms Ciara and Dennis.
