Peterborough hit by flash floods after storm hits bringing half a month’s worth of rain in a day

After a week of hot, humid weather there were a number of heavy downpours across the city today, leading to flash floods on a number of roads.

St Paul’s Road has been left under water, while Bourges Boulevard has also been flooded near the TK Maxx building.

There are also large puddles in Bishops Road and on Oundle Road.

There has been one crash on the A47 in Peterborough, which left a man in hospital, and a Police spokesman said: “Following all of the rain, there is a lot of excess water around. Take care on the roads and drive to arrive.”

Trev Robbins Pratt, from Peterborough Weather watch said there had been a huge amount of rain falling today: “Today was the first rain I have recorded in 16 days, with a ‘huge’ total of 33.0mm as I write, with it being likely there is some more to come. The August average is around 62.0mm, so over half of that has fallen just today.

“Temperature wise, August average maximum to this point in the month is around 22.8°C, but up to yesterday, the average maximum with me is a very high 26.2°C. “The very high temperatures have certainly left us, but still have potential to reach 25°C tomorrow, but the next few days after we do look set to fall back to around the average for mid August. Just a hint that it might heat up again later next week, but that is a long way off of course.”

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