UK weather: Heat-health alert will be followed by thunderstorms

Heavy showers and thunderstorms are owed to deed parts of the UK implicit the weekend, according to the Met Office, aft a heat-health alert was issued.

The alert, owed to past until Sunday, covers six English regions and warns of accrued wellness risks - with temperatures acceptable to deed 30C (86F).

But the Met Office has present said that pursuing those highs, thunderstorms tin beryllium expected passim Saturday.

At-risk regions for rainfall span the Scottish Highlands down to London.

The UK government's Health Security Agency and the Met Office issued a yellowish heat-health alert connected Thursday for six regions successful England: London, the South East, East Midlands, West Midlands, East of England, and Yorkshire and the Humber.

The alert lasts from midday connected Friday until 09:00 BST connected Sunday.

A little but potent burst of vigor and humidity volition spot temperatures astatine their highest connected Friday successful East Anglia and south-east England, with 28-30C possible, according to BBC Weather's Matt Taylor.

On Saturday, bluish Scotland and eastbound England volition acquisition temperatures into the precocious 20s. And the nighttime volition beryllium peculiarly muggy for many.

But that volition beryllium short-lived, the forecaster added, with thunderstorms connected Saturday expected to interruption retired wide crossed the UK. For some, these could beryllium terrible with aggravated rainfall, hail and gusty winds.

Norwich, successful eastbound England, Manchester successful the north-west and Scotland's superior Edinburgh each autumn wrong the Met Office's yellow upwind alert for thunderstorms.

The alert warned of a fig of scenarios, including the flooding of homes and businesses and the cancellation of nationalist transport successful affected areas.

It covers fractional of Northern Ireland connected Friday, from 11:00 to 18:00, and a bulk of England and Scotland the pursuing day, from 09:00 to 23:59. Wales sits mostly extracurricular the predicted at-risk bound line.

One country forecast to beryllium deed by the storms connected Saturday is Wimbledon, south-west London, wherever the yearly Grand Slam tennis tourney is presently taking place.

On Tuesday, rainfall caused the worst disruption to the Championships for years, with dozens of matches suspended.

Organisers were forced to contented a immense fig of summons refunds arsenic a effect - and reports suggest this outgo them hundreds of thousands of pounds.