Kate Marks, flood duty manager at the Environment Agency, said: "We urge people to stay safe on the coast and to remember to take extreme care on coastal paths and promenades. Flooding of low-lying coastal roads is also possible and people must avoid driving through flood water, as just 30cm of flowing water is enough to move your car." In light of this, what can we expect from Storm Ciaran?
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00:00 You might have hoped we'd seen the back of the bad weather, but it looks like there's
00:05 more in store as the Environment Agency has issued 72 flood warnings across the country.
00:10 The Met Office has put in place several yellow weather warnings for rain, as wet and windy
00:14 weather is expected to build up to a quote "nasty storm" later in the week.
00:18 The storm, named Storm Ciaran, is expected to cause disruption to roads and public transport
00:24 and even potentially lead to a danger to life.
00:27 Met Office Deputy Chief Meteorologist Chris Armand said winds associated with Storm Ciaran
00:32 are likely to gust 80mph along the south coast of England, with a small risk of somewhere
00:37 exposed seeing 90mph.
00:39 He added that the heaviest rain is expected in southern and western areas, which could
00:43 cause flooding in areas that are already struggling to clean up from the heavy rainfall from the
00:49 last week.
00:50 As a result of the bad weather we've seen in the past week, a Tesco supermarket car
00:53 park flooded in Bognor Regis while a house had its roof ripped off in heavy winds.