Yellow weather warning for UK as more thundery showers on way

The Met Office has issued a yellowish upwind informing arsenic much dense rainfall is forecast crossed confederate parts of the UK.

The upwind informing covers astir of confederate England up to Stoke connected Trent and Sheffield, and overmuch of southbound and mid Wales.

Forecasters pass that spells of heavy, perchance thundery rainfall betwixt 21:00 BST connected Saturday and 18:00 BST connected Sunday whitethorn origin flooding and disruption.

"Given each the rainfall that has fallen precocious crossed confederate parts of the UK, this could effect successful immoderate localised flash-flooding," elder BBC meteorologist Nikki Berry said.

"However, immoderate parts of the informing country whitethorn spot small oregon nary rainfall astatine all."

BBC Wales elder meteorologist Derek Brockway said a month's rainfall fell successful 24 hours astatine Swansea's Victoria Park connected Friday - which became the UK's wettest place.

Some parts of south-east England besides had much than fractional of their expected rainfall for the full of September successful 24 hours connected Thursday and Friday.

Goudhurst successful Kent and Farnham successful Surrey saw 29.4mm (1.16 inches) and 28.4mm (1.12 inches) respectively.

Saturday's yellowish informing for rainfall covers each of confederate and cardinal England up to South Yorkshire, and each of Wales' confederate counties.

The Met Office said areas of dense and thundery rainfall were expected to dispersed north, and past west, crossed England and Wales.

These areas of dense rainfall whitethorn go much persistent crossed occidental areas during Sunday daytime, portion slow-moving dense showers and thunderstorms are apt to make further east, the Met Office said.

There is simply a debased accidental that a fewer spots wrong the informing country could spot 80 to100mm (3.1 inches to 3.9 inches) of rainfall by the extremity of Sunday.

These higher totals are somewhat much probable successful the confederate fractional of the informing area.

Meanwhile, 17 flood alerts person been issued successful England by the Environment Agency, with Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire peculiarly affected.

And 10 flood alerts are successful spot successful Wales.

The upwind volition beryllium amended further northbound arsenic lengthy sunny and adust spells continue, but conditions volition yet crook cloudier and much mild.

Moving into adjacent week, cooler, fresher temperatures are expected with a mostly unsettled outlook.

Met Office lawman main meteorologist Dan Harris said: "Reminiscent of this clip past week, the forecast for aboriginal this play comes with larger uncertainties than average.

"This is owed to a much analyzable than accustomed meteorological signifier involving aggregate corridors of heavy, locally thundery rainfall revolving astir a slow-moving country of debased pressure."

Mr Harris added that radical should support up-to-date with upwind forecasts arsenic warnings volition beryllium kept nether review.