The unrelenting rain is expected to continue on Sunday and into next week with dozens of flood warnings in place across Great Britain.
The Environment Agency (EA) has issued 85 warnings for England, meaning flooding is expected, mainly concentrated in the south-west and Midlands.
A further 245 flood alerts are in place, meaning flooding is possible, from North Yorkshire to Cornwall and from the Welsh borders to Norfolk.
Natural Resources Wales has another 11 flood alerts in place while Scotland has one flood warning and five flood alerts.
The Met Office said there will be further showers on Sunday, particularly in the west, while persistent rain and drizzle will affect parts of Scotland.
The outlook for Monday to Wednesday is cloudy with spells of torrential rain across the UK though with occasional drier interludes.
It has rained every day for the last 37 days in the UK, while Aberdeen has had zero hours of sunshine since 21 January and Sheffield has had no hours of sunshine so far this month, Sky News reported.
In only the first three days of this month, the south-east received nearly a third of its average February rainfall.
Dan Stroud, operational meteorologist with the Met Office, said: “Unfortunately, there’s no end in sight.”
Newcastle’s jumps announced its meeting on Sunday has been abandoned “due to the track being waterlogged with some false patches and no prospect of sufficient improvement in the next 24 hours” following “13mm of rain in the last 24 hours and 56mm rain in the past week”.
Rain has fallen every day of 2026 in the south-west and south Wales, the Met Office announced earlier this week.
Both regions have faced 50% more rainfall than usual for January, the forecaster said.
The UK’s wettest February on record was in 2020 with 213.7mm of rainfall which included Storm Ciara and Storm Dennis.
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