A car rescued from the York floods earlier today is tonight back in the water.
City firefighters winched the white Vauxhall Insignia from Queen’s Staith after the Ouse rose around it.
The car was left on the cobbles overnight.
It is pictured here in the water at about 1pm today:
Then firefighters came to the rescue at about 1.30pm. A North Yorkshire Fire & Rescue Service spokesperson said: “York crews winched a vehicle in danger of being swept out into the River Ouse. The vehicle was winched to a safe place.”
You can see pictures of the rescue on the York Press.
Tonight the car is on Queen’s Staith Road. The river has risen again and water is once more lapping over its wheels.
It is likely to get wetter as the river level is still rising.
The River Ouse at the Viking Recorder had reached 3.22m at 8.45pm tonight (Wednesday, 1 January). Anything above 3m leads to flooding.
It is forecast to peak at 4m at 3pm tomorrow.
There are three flood warnings in place tonight:
- River Ouse at Naburn Lock
- River Ouse at York – riverside properties
- River Ouse at York – St George’s Field and Queen’s Staith.
Meanwhile, a yellow warning for ice has been issued from 4pm tonight until 10am tomorrow.
And a three-day yellow warning for snow has been issued for York and North Yorkshire, and almost all of England and Wales, from noon on Saturday until 9am on Monday.
Met Office meteorologist Tom Morgan said: “At the moment we’ve issued a very large snow warning for Saturday until Monday but it doesn’t mean that everywhere within that warning could see snow, it’s just a heads-up there could be some impacts.”