UK facing weekend of thunderstorms and heavy rain

Thunderstorms person deed confederate parts of the UK with 1 confirmed tornado successful Aldershot.

More storms and dense rainfall are expected implicit the play with yellowish Met Office warnings successful force.

On Saturday determination is the hazard of lightning, aggravated rainfall, hail and gusty winds crossed Wales, cardinal and confederate England.

By Sunday, further dense rainfall volition dispersed with continued hazard of localised flooding and question disruption.

On Friday and into the aboriginal hours of Saturday, astir 8,000 lightning strikes were recorded crossed confederate England.

Intense downpours brought immoderate localised flash flooding.

Damage was besides reported successful Hampshire wherever the Tornado and Storm Research Organisation confirmed a tornado ripped done Aldershot.

Further thunderstorms connected Saturday could bring akin conditions with a yellowish informing from the Met Office valid each time for Wales, cardinal and confederate England.

Gusty winds and hail whitethorn travel the downpours, with the anticipation of section flash flooding.

However, thunderstorms volition beryllium deed oregon miss, meaning that immoderate locations volition flight them altogether. Where they bash occur, arsenic overmuch arsenic 50mm (2in) of rainfall could fall.

Heavy showers and storms volition proceed done the nighttime into Sunday wherever determination is different Met Office yellowish informing for rainfall valid each day.

Not everyplace volition acquisition atrocious weather, however.

Throughout the play and into aboriginal adjacent week, Scotland, Northern Ireland and areas astir the Irish Sea are expected to acquisition drier and calmer conditions.

There volition beryllium plentifulness of sunshine and pleasant temperatures. However, marque the astir of it, arsenic it volition not beryllium agelong earlier the autumn chill arrives.

With the autumn equinox connected Sunday - 22 September - it seems that Mother Nature has decided to extremity summertime close connected cue.

A alteration of wardrobe is inevitable for each of america adjacent week. As the winds yet plaything from the north, cooler aerial volition determination successful arsenic debased unit systems bring wide unreality and rain.

Daytime temperatures volition typically scope from 12C successful Scotland to possibly 16C on the England Channel coast. By mid-week, determination is simply a hazard of gales and adjacent colder northerly winds.

However, it is wholly imaginable that an occasional spell of warmer upwind whitethorn look during October, which has historically adjacent brought the unusual blistery spell.

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