More heavy rain to come for parts of UK as summer ends

More dense rainfall is acceptable to lash parts of the UK successful the coming days aft thunderstorms deed galore areas connected Saturday.

Further yellowish upwind warnings for rainfall person been issued by the Met Office for Sunday - the time of the autumn equinox marking the extremity of summertime - and Monday.

They screen ample parts of confederate and cardinal England, and Wales connected Sunday, and gradually agelong towards northwards and eastwards earlier expiring astatine 23:59 BST connected Monday.

Thunder, lightning, hail and rainfall struck assorted parts of the state connected Saturday, including Luton, Bedfordshire, St Albans successful Hertfordshire, and Cornwall, with dense downpours successful London, Wales and Birmingham.

On Sunday, the Met Office is warning of aboveground h2o issues and question disruption owed to dense rain, urging radical to instrumentality attraction if retired and astir oregon travelling.

Its meteorologist Becky Mitchell said the upwind volition beryllium "unsettled" astatine the commencement of the week, with the imaginable for much localised flooding.

Heavy rainfall volition proceed into Monday, spreading further crossed bluish and eastbound England, with powerfulness cuts, flooding of homes and businesses and delays to bid and autobus services possible, the Met Office said.

The south-west volition beryllium drier and crook brighter aboriginal successful the time and the upwind volition go drier for immoderate areas further northbound but patchy rainfall volition determination into the northbound of Scotland.

Forecasters expect temperatures to dip connected Tuesday, but a batch of the bedewed upwind volition wide and immoderate sunny spells volition make crossed the northbound and the south.

Wet and windy upwind volition instrumentality to confederate areas connected Wednesday. Elsewhere it volition beryllium adust but cloudy.

Scotland, Northern Ireland and areas astir the Irish Sea are expected to acquisition calmer conditions during this period.

Those areas volition person plentifulness of sunshine and pleasant temperatures but it won't beryllium agelong earlier the autumn chill arrives.

Just days ago, galore radical were enjoying lukewarm sunshine successful the UK, but summertime volition officially extremity connected Sunday.

'Meteorological autumn' starts connected 1 September each twelvemonth whereas 'astronomical autumn' begins astatine equinox which is connected 22 September this year.

The connection "equinox" is derived from Latin and virtually translates to "equal night".

On these days, everyplace connected Earth experiences astir 12 hours of sunshine and 12 hours of darkness.

With cooler upwind coming, a alteration of wardrobe volition soon beryllium inevitable for each of us.

Next week, daytime temperatures volition typically scope from 12C successful Scotland to possibly 16C on the southbound seashore of England. By the mediate of the week, determination is simply a chances of gales and colder, northerly winds.

Keep up with our latest thoughts connected the coming weeks with our monthly outlook.