Storms and Floods

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NewsBytes:

Scotland - Flash flooding caused significant problems and disruption to transport in parts of Scotland. Flood warnings have been put in place across the north and west of Britain as Scotland suffered a day of travel chaos and a significant rail signalling problem stopped trains running through Gatwick railway station in West Sussex. The Met Office issued alerts for parts of northern England and Scotland, with up to 80mm of rain expected in Yorkshire, Newcastle-upon-Tyne and parts of Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire over the next 24 hours.

Indonesia - Floods were still engulfing areas across the country on Sunday, killing two children in a village in North Sumatra. On Monday, floods engulfing thousands of homes in a number of regions in North Sumatra started to recede. Meanwhile, heavy rains have been pouring over the southern parts of Central Java for the past five days and floods are inevitable. The floods have hit a number of areas in Cilacap regency, Central Java, over the past four days. No casualties have been reported yet, but thousands of homes and tens of thousands of hectares of rice fields have been swamped. Hundreds of families have evacuated as the floods have further expanded following incessant rain.