This is just days after an alert was put in place for the county as Storm Debi swept across the region. Wiltshire has been hit by several bouts of adverse weather in recent months on top of this with Storm Babet and Storm Ciarán causing widespread flooding. Now heavy downpours are set to return to return, with a yelow weather warning for rain issued from midnight on Thursday morning until 6pm on Thursday evening. Swindon falls just outside the warning zone, but according to the Met Office forecast, is set to be hit by heavy rain too. A Met Office spokesperson said: “A spell of rain, heavy at times, will move east across southern parts of England and the south of Wales during Thursday.

Source: The Times November 16, 2023 04:45 UTC