Higher level flood warnings remain in place as deluge heads down River Severn from mid Wales

Flooding is expected at the River Vyrnwy at Maesbrook and Melverley, with 'flooding is possible' alerts in place at the Severn Vyrnwy confluence and downstream in the River Severn.

The Government's flooding service issued updated predicted peaks for the Severn on Christmas Day. The information has changed since Christmas Eve.

The new higher predicted peak at Crew Green is 6m to 6.4m tonight, ,

The Montford Bridge predicted peak remains the same at 5.2m to 5.6m tonight .

Welsh Bridge's peak at 3m to 3.4m has been changed to now be on Boxing Day in the morning.

There is new, slightly higher predicted peak for Buildwas at 3.9m to 4.4m but that peak has been moved back to Boxing Night .

Bridgnorth is now also expected to see a slightly higher peak of 3.1m to 3.6m on Wednesday .

The top of the normal range at Welsh Bridge is 2.7m and at Buildwas it is 3.4m with possible property flooding above 4.8m.

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The Environment Agency expects river levels to remain high until on Wednesday and are closely monitoring the situation.

The phase one defences have been in place at Frankwell since last week and the warning is to avoid using low-lying footpaths near local watercourses. The EA is expected to update its data by 6pm today .

Two roads near Welshpool were reportedly closed due to flooding on Christmas morning as mid Wales recovers from a deluge.

AA Traffic News reported that the road is reported closed due to flooding on A490 near Welshpool both ways from Cilcewydd to A458 at the Sarn Bryn Caled roundabout.

The weather forecast news is mixed. There are no weather warnings out today or on Boxing Day but parts of Powys that were hit by a deluge on Saturday are in line for another soaking on Wednesday. The Met Office has a yellow warning covering a15-hour period from midnight to 3pm on the 27th.