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BBC weather forecaster Stav Danaos has the outlook for the Christmas period
Flooding is causing difficulties for thousands of people in southern England after stormy weather lashed the UK.
Three severe flood warnings are in place in Surrey and Dorset, and residents needed to be rescued from their homes overnight.
Meanwhile, thousands of properties, mostly in southern England, are facing Christmas morning without electricity.
Flooding at a Gatwick Airport power station saw Tuesday flights cancelled and anger among stranded passengers.
The River Mole in Surrey has burst its banks in several areas.
An Environment Agency severe flood warning - which means a danger to life - was issued for the Mole at Leatherhead, with already high levels of water expected to peak around midnight.
At 01:34 on Christmas Day the agency said river levels were beginning to fall but remained high, with properties near Leatherhead still at risk of flooding.
A "multi-agency response" to flooding is also taking place in Godalming on the River Wey.
The Environment Agency said the River Medway in Kent had continued to rise and flood risks would continue for three days.
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Steve Wood said the flood waters had reached houses on the High Street in Tonbridge, Kent
Kent Police said the river had flooded areas from Tonbridge to Allington, with Mereworth and Yalding - where 76 people were rescued by the Coastguard from a flooded caravan park - badly affected.
The Coastguard said the majority of residents were taken to a leisure centre in the early evening in small boats and four-by-four vehicles.
It added: "By 8pm yesterday the flood water was chest deep and so the Maritime Rescue Coordination Centre called in the Coastguard helicopter."
The last 21 people were rescued from the rising flood water and listing caravans, it said.
Emergency services have also been evacuating people from their homes in Tonbridge.
Surrey Fire and Rescue tweeted just before 22:00 GMT to say "many rescues" were being made due to the floods.
At 04:03 GMT, the Environment Agency issued a severe flood warning for Iford Home Park, a residential development on the River Stour, near Bournemouth, Dorset.
"Cold and hungry"
Anne Coleman and her 83-year-old husband from the village of Brenchley in Kent have been without power for 24 hours.
"The freezer was absolutely full," she said. "But now it's full of soggy food."
They had been preparing to host parties for friends and family.
Now, Mrs Coleman said, she was not sure what they were going to do.
They have no means to cook food and one wood burner to heat the house.
"People have been very helpful and kind, but most of our neighbours are away or hosting big family parties."
She said that while she understood these incidents can happen, "there was no suggestion the power would be off this long".
UK Power Networks supplies power to the area. It said it is aiming to have everyone switched on by the end of Boxing Day.
Dorset Police said a decision had been taken at 03:00 GMT to evacuate the park. About 90 residents were being accommodated at the Boscombe Day Centre in Boscombe.
The power cut at Gatwick's north terminal was caused by flooding on the Mole which affected airfield substations and saw more than 30 flights cancelled.
All departures, apart from British Airways, were switched to the South terminal and police were called in to man information desks.
Around 90 flights are due to leave Gatwick on Christmas Day - including some services rescheduled from Tuesday - and passengers are advised to check with their airlines before setting off for the airport.
Gatwick said: "Due to adverse weather in the last 48 hours there are still power outages in parts of our North Terminal. These are causing delays to departing flights and our engineers are on site rectifying this."
It added that all flights would continue to be operated through the South Terminal except for British Airways.
Joe Pattinson, 35, from Wokingham in Surrey, had been due to fly from Gatwick to Barcelona but has ended up returning home.
"It was absolute confusion," he said.
"We'd been waiting for three hours in the queue. There was no information and we couldn't find anyone to explain what we should be doing. Eventually three armed police turned up to try and calm people down.
"Lots of people were getting angry and shouting, they were booing the police and arguing with each other."
Jamie Whiteford arrived at Gatwick at 05:30 on Christmas Eve and spent more than 12 hours waiting at the airport for his flight to Edinburgh to depart before it was eventually cancelled.
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"Flights around us began to cancel despite being told they were waiting on the buses to transport them and the aircraft were ready.
"Eventually all were cancelled and this caused angry scenes at a flight to Naples which involved a police presence and very confused and untrained staff.
"As I work in the very top end of customer service in central London, I am appalled and disgusted that no one came even admit to fault. It has only angered people more. The faces on families is heartbreaking."
'Restaurant appeal'The Energy Networks Association said about 75,000 homes were still without power across the UK after "notable collisions" along power lines during the stormy weather.
Power supplier Southern Electric said 44,000 of its customers remained without power.
It said about 19,500 of its customers, most of them in South Hampshire, Surrey and West Sussex, could be without power overnight.
Engineers will restart work on Christmas Day, a spokesperson for the company said.
UK Power Networks, which supplies power to eight million people in the south of England, said it was aiming to restore power to everyone by the end of Boxing Day. Those whose power is not on by midnight should make contingency plans, it said.
It said it had "appealed to restaurants and pubs in areas still affected by the storm, to let us know if they have any availability to accommodate our customers should they still be without power from the storm tomorrow".
In Devon, a man died after jumping into the River Lemon to rescue his dog.
Witnesses saw the 46-year-old enter the river before being swept away, police said, and he later died in hospital. The dog escaped unharmed.
Meanwhile, about 800 homes in the north of Scotland are still without power, mainly around the Deeside area, Buchan, Elgin, Wick and the Western Isles.
Scottish Hydro Electric Power Distribution said about 400 of its staff are working to reconnect the properties this evening.
Winds gusting up to 80 mph caused disruption to Christmas travel in Scotland, with the Northern and Western Isles hit by ferry and flight cancellations.
There has been heavy rain in Northern Ireland, while winds in Wales have reached 78mph in Pembrey and 77mph in Aberdaron.
A post mortem examination has been carried out on a woman whose body was recovered from a fast-flowing stream in heavy rain in Gwynedd on Monday.
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The Isle of Man Steam Packet ferry crossings. ferry said it would take the unusual step of operating a Christmas Day sailing following cancellations during the day.
More than 10 flood warnings remain in place across mainland Scotland, with high tide being accompanied by heavy rainfall, but the number is beginning to fall.
The Environment Agency has about 120 flood warnings in place for England and Wales - signifying that flooding is "expected", and more than 200 flood alerts, where flooding is "possible".
BBC Radio Cumbria are reporting that more than 1,000 homes are without electricity in the county. Electricity North West says there is a problem with overhead lines, probably caused by strong winds.
There has been widespread disruption to train services because of the weather with Southern, South West, East Coast, First Capital Connect, Virgin Trains, Arriva Trains Wales and East Coast running amended services.
Robin Gisby, managing director of network operations at Network Rail, said engineers had cleared scores of line blockages and over 200 trees since the stormy weather moved into the UK from the Atlantic during Monday.
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