A village near Machynlleth was one of the wettest places in the UK this morning after more than three days worth of rain fell in seven hours.

The following Tweet is an observation of soil erosion and loss from an agricultural field in rural England during a rainfall event. This was documented on Twitter by Dave Throup, Environment Agency Manager for Herefordshire and Worcestershire. General overviews of increasing rainfall and soil degradation in the UK are attached.

Rivers burst their banks, homes were flooded and travel was impacted as Wales was battered by Storm Callum.

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There was no evidence of physical harm to the eight-legged creatures, but there was still plenty of concern as to why they were all abandoning their regular ocean home.