Over a month's rain in two days forecast for southern UK

More than a month's worthy of rainfall could autumn successful 2 days successful immoderate parts of confederate England and southbound Wales this week.

Met Office yellowish terrible upwind warnings person been issued with flooding, transport disruption and powerfulness cuts imaginable from Wednesday evening.

With up to 100mm (4in) of rainfall expected successful immoderate of the wettest areas, it would beryllium good implicit the full of September's mean rainfall.

This comes aft a precise adust August successful confederate parts of the United Kingdom.

The archetypal Met Office yellowish informing comes into unit connected Wednesday astatine 9pm and extends close done until 11:45pm connected Thursday.

It covers southbound Wales and overmuch of confederate England.

Heavy showers volition crook into much persistent rainfall into Thursday with astir 20-40mm (around an inch) of rainfall falling wrong an hr oregon two.

While not everyone successful the informing country volition get the wettest weather, the Met Office says that a fewer places could spot much than 50-60mm (around 2 inches), perchance up to 100mm (4in) implicit a longer play during Thursday afternoon.

Average September rainfall crossed confederate England and southbound Wales is astir 60-90mm truthful it is rather imaginable that immoderate places volition get implicit a month's rainfall successful a day.

There is simply a tiny accidental homes oregon businesses could beryllium flooded, and determination could beryllium immoderate powerfulness cuts.

Travel disruption could besides hap with unpleasant conditions connected roads successful particular.

Rain volition proceed into Friday.

Another yellowish upwind informing valid each time Friday covers akin parts of southbound Wales and confederate England, erstwhile different 75-100mm (3-4in) of rainfall is possible.

The Met Office says: "This dense rainfall follows connected from an expected bedewed time crossed immoderate akin areas connected Thursday which volition summation the likelihood of impacts."

Higher crushed of south-east Wales and southbound westbound England could acquisition immoderate of the highest rainfall totals.

There person been immoderate media reports astir a heatwave gathering successful the UK.

Although determination are hints of a somewhat warmer than mean September, determination are nary signs of immoderate prolonged oregon utmost heat, and surely nary forecast of different record-breaking September heatwave similar we saw past year.

In fact, crossed confederate areas, the unsettled upwind is apt to proceed into the play with further spells of dense rain.

However, successful the north, it's going to beryllium drier and warmer.

In occidental Scotland, the somesthesia could scope 25C connected Friday, the archetypal clip since 18 May erstwhile Glasgow reached 25.3C

Throughout the summertime determination person been respective instances wherever the somesthesia has been conscionable abbreviated of 25C.

Nowhere is expected to person temperatures exceeding heatwave thresholds successful the abbreviated term.

Beyond the weekend, determination are immoderate indications from machine models that higher unit is much likely, which would bring immoderate spells of settled upwind to the UK.

But cooler, wetter interludes are besides imaginable astatine times, particularly successful the south. Temperature trends are for somewhat warmer than mean conditions but determination are nary signs of immoderate prolonged oregon utmost heat.

Keep up with the latest agelong scope forecast successful our monthly outlook.