An 800-mile-wide 24-hour blitz of rain will batter Britain as three Atlantic storms combine to soak the country. A month's worth of rain is set to fall in just one day

Three Atlantic rainstorms in a week will bring a floody awful start to winter, starting with an 800-mile-wide 24-hour downpour dumping four inches of rain.

After -7C lows and ice on Sunday, 24 flood alerts and warnings were issued as rain is forecast to soak the West from 9pm on Sunday (November 30) to 9pm on Monday. A month’s rain is set to fall in a day, on ground which is already sodden .

There is even the chance of more snow. South Wales and North-West England are due to get drenched by up to four inches of rain, with up to two inches in South-West England. The Environment Agency warned of floods. Roads and rail li

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