Forecasters in Britain have today predicted further showers in Cornwall and the south west throughout the morning but said they would become more isolated during the day before dying away this evening.
The Environment Agency downgraded the number of flood warnings to three, and the number of flood watches to 13, following the early showers, which were less torrential and prolonged than 24 hours earlier. The warnings were issued on stretches of the River Clyst, Axe and Culm.
Today’s clean-up operations in the flood-battered county also come as a large flood response demonstration takes place in Hampshire.
It is part of Operation Watermark, a Government-led initiative to test the nation’s response to flooding which culminates in a nationwide flood exercise in March next year.
Today’s exercise will last for two days and involve a number of emergency workers simulating a response to severe weather and a flooded campsite.
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