Personal opinion based on sort of twenty-five years of living here, I believe they don't dredge these rivers at all. So of course you get all the silt which comes down from the hill and everywhere else, it finds its way to the bottom, so you've got literally twenty yard feet of silt just built up and it leaves nowhere for the water to go.

In Daven, the search continues for missing teenager Henry Martin. He was out photgraphing the storm on Thursday and hasn't been seen since. And a 47-year old man died in Oxford after driving his mobility skooter along a submerged pathway. For the teams working flat out to try to manage these floods, they are dealing with the familiar scenario.

In winter the ground just doesn't dry out. You know, you don't get evaporation. The temperature isn't warm enough to allow the soil to dry out. So as soon as we go into the next waxbell, although there will be a bit capacity in the rivers that will soon, very soon to be taken up. So we could be back to square one. So I think certainly right to the end of this winter, we are going to need to be watching things very carefully.

It all comes from here, the swells of color that they analyse so closely at the meteor office. 

To be honest, I put it in because they are up to the exception, those waves.

The chief forecaster on duty Eddie has worked through three decades of weather. To see wave after wave of storms, he is unusual.

This feature here is really whipping out some big waves way out the Atlantic at the moment and they are gonna travel east towards the UK for tomorrow. It's quite a large swell and that's going to add to the wind waves and generate some large waves and surges. 

In K part of this beach site, cafe will have to be dismantled when the storms have passed.

This rain has just lashed the west country all afternoon. This is F beach near U, Britain's surfer's paradise, while today it isn't. 

So by morning, western Britain and island will again be pummeled by even bigger waves. For those on the front line, fixing the mess and drying out are still distant prospects.