UK weather: Storm and wind warnings for England and Wales as NI sees wettest July

Weather warnings are successful spot crossed England and Wales connected Wednesday arsenic the UK's bedewed and windy upwind continues.

A yellowish alert for storms stretching from London to Manchester, covering overmuch of the Midlands and Wales, volition past from 09:00 to 19:00 BST.

Another yellowish informing is successful spot passim the time for beardown upwind owed to deed the southbound seashore of England.

The Met Office has confirmed past period was 1 of the wettest Julys connected record, according to provisional data.

It said the UK had its sixth rainiest July since information started being collected, and its wettest since 2009, with 140.1mm of rainfall, much than 2 thirds higher than the mean for this clip of year.

Northern Ireland has had its wettest July connected record, the Met Office information shows. The portion saw much than treble its mean rainfall (185.4mm).

And Greater Manchester, Lancashire and Merseyside besides saw their wettest July since records began, each seeing agelong periods of rain.

Rain, upwind and chill temperatures person dominated the forecast successful caller weeks - successful stark opposition to the unsafe heatwave sweeping overmuch of Europe.

Meteorologists accidental the bedewed and chill upwind is owed to the presumption of the pitchy stream, a halfway of beardown winds sitting astir 5 to 7 miles supra the Earth's surface, and which dictate overmuch of the UK's weather.

The pitchy watercourse marks the bound of acold aerial to the northbound successful the polar regions and blistery aerial to the south, a opposition which produces unit differences.

Last year, the pitchy watercourse was positioned further north, truthful the UK saw lukewarm and adust upwind created by the high-pressure strategy sitting implicit the country.

But this month, the pitchy watercourse has been stuck straight implicit the UK, meaning its low-pressure strategy has been bringing acold and bedewed weather.

The upwind has forced immoderate summertime festivals and events to cancel successful caller weeks, including the Tiree Music Festival, a people lawsuit held connected the land of Tiree disconnected Scotland's westbound coast.

Around 600 members of staff, volunteers and summons holders were already connected the distant land erstwhile almighty winds meant it had to beryllium cancelled astatine the past minute.

Co-founder Daniel Gillespie told BBC News: "We thought we mightiness beryllium capable to beryllium capable to proceed but erstwhile the winds strengthened and forecasts got worse, we had to commencement to evacuate.

"The festival takes a twelvemonth of readying and past it each goes down the drain successful a substance of days, but we had a bully program successful place.

"We besides had families connected the land turning up to the tract successful their cars and taking campers location to clang connected their couches."

He said helium was assured the lawsuit volition beryllium backmost adjacent year, but said cancellations person knock-on impacts for performers and businesses and called predictions of much utmost summertime upwind successful the aboriginal "concerning" for radical who organise outdoor events.

The bedewed upwind has besides deed home holidaymakers. Stephen Felce from Hertfordshire said helium cancelled his 10-day travel to Cornwall aft seeing dense rainfall predicted throughout.

The 79-year-old told the BBC helium decided to enactment astatine location due to the fact that dense rainfall was forecast "on each but 2 days of 10, and I conscionable thought you tin enactment up with truthful much, but that's a spot excessively much."

Some scientists deliberation that higher temperatures owed to clime alteration successful the Arctic - which has warmed much than 4 times faster than the planetary mean - are causing the pitchy watercourse to slow, expanding the likelihood of precocious unit and blistery upwind remaining successful place.

Global warming means blistery temperatures and wetter periods volition go much emblematic for the UK.

Hotter aerial is capable to clasp much moisture - and it falls backmost to crushed successful dense downpours.

A caller survey from the UK Met Office and University of Bristol, published successful March, recovered that the strength of downpours tin summation by up to 15% for each grade of planetary warming.

Global temperatures are expected to ascent to 2.4C by the extremity of the period based connected projected emissions levels.

While the rainfall has eased immoderate of the unit connected earthy h2o sources aft past year's droughts and a adust May and June this year, Steve Turner from the UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology told the BBC that a bedewed July won't wholly replenish rivers and lakes.

He said: "This unsettled upwind successful the abbreviated word volition person eased the unit connected the environment, but determination are immoderate areas of inactive seeing ecological accent pursuing the precise adust summertime past year.

"Because of the summertime 2022 was truthful severe, though we person immoderate rain, it conscionable takes a longer clip to replenish that and get backmost to normal.

"After our adust June and present having immoderate much aggravated rainfall determination volition person been immoderate tally disconnected from the onshore and perchance immoderate h2o prime issues but we don't yet person information to corroborate this."

Ireland has seen its wettest July connected record, according to provisional information gathered by the Irish Meteorological Service, with much than 4 times the magnitude of rainfall falling this period than successful July 2022.