WRECKED: Roof ripped off garages in Wolverhampton [SWNS]

Bookmakers yesterday slashed the odds on this year becoming the wettest in history after a flood of bets.

Coral are now giving odds of just 2-1.

This year is poised to smash the rain-plagued year of 2000 which saw 1,337.3mm fall.

Coral is also offering 20-1 odds that the UK’s record wind speed of 173mph will be broken.

The tail-end of hurricane Gonzalo which killed three people and injured five on Tuesday has now moved to central Europe.

Teresita Sison, 58, was crushed to death by a falling tree in London. A 65-year-old man was killed when his Ford Fiestahit a bridge in St Helens, Merseyside.

And a man in his 30s was crushed to death while working under a transit van supported by a jack which collapsed in high winds in Canvey Island, Essex.

Three dog walkers in Southwick, West Sussex were rescued after a tree came down.

The 108mph superwinds have now weakened – but the rain is expected to batter Britain over the next few days.

Coral’s Nicola McGeady said: “The year got off to a very miserable start and it looks like it will end that way too, with more punters putting their money on 2014 being the wettest ever.”

Next week the north of England will again be plagued by rain.