‘Danger to life’ weather warning in place today with 100mm of rain forecast in UK

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  • September 8, 2024
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Published Sep 8, 2024, 5:45am|Updated Sep 8, 2024, 7:36am

With a yellow weather warning covering two-thirds of England and Wales in place, you can probably guess the weather won’t be great today.

The warning for heavy and thundery rain started yesterday at 9pm and will end at 8pm today.

While forecasters admit the outlook for today remains uncertain, they expect it to bucket it down in western England and southern Wales especially.

Slow-moving showers and thunderstorms, meanwhile, will crawl across the east.

How much rain you will see will vary wildly. Some might see only 10mm or so, while others in areas under the yellow weather warning might see up to 60mm.

‘There is a lower chance that a few spots within the warning area could see 80-100 mm of rain by the end of Sunday which may fall in a fairly small period of time,’ the warning says.



What parts of the UK are under the yellow weather warning today?

East Midlands

  • Derby
  • Derbyshire
  • Leicester
  • Leicestershire
  • Lincolnshire
  • Northamptonshire
  • Nottingham
  • Nottinghamshire
  • Rutland

East of England

  • Bedford
  • Cambridgeshire
  • Central Bedfordshire
  • Essex
  • Hertfordshire
  • Luton
  • Norfolk
  • Peterborough
  • Southend-on-Sea
  • Suffolk
  • Thurrock

London & South East England

  • Bracknell Forest
  • Brighton and Hove
  • Buckinghamshire
  • East Sussex
  • Greater London
  • Hampshire
  • Isle of Wight
  • Kent
  • Medway
  • Milton Keynes
  • Oxfordshire
  • Portsmouth
  • Reading
  • Slough
  • Southampton
  • Surrey
  • West Berkshire
  • West Sussex
  • Windsor and Maidenhead
  • Wokingham

South West England

  • Bath and North East Somerset
  • Bournemouth Christchurch and Poole
  • Bristol
  • Cornwall
  • Devon
  • Dorset
  • Gloucestershire
  • North Somerset
  • Plymouth
  • Somerset
  • South Gloucestershire
  • Swindon
  • Torbay
  • Wiltshire

Wales

  • Blaenau Gwent
  • Bridgend
  • Caerphilly
  • Cardiff
  • Carmarthenshire
  • Ceredigion
  • Merthyr Tydfil
  • Monmouthshire
  • Neath Port Talbot
  • Newport
  • Pembrokeshire
  • Powys
  • Rhondda Cynon Taf
  • Swansea
  • Torfaen
  • Vale of Glamorgan

West Midlands

  • Herefordshire
  • Shropshire
  • Staffordshire
  • Stoke-on-Trent
  • Telford and Wrekin
  • Warwickshire
  • West Midlands Conurbation
  • Worcestershire

Yorkshire & Humber

  • North East Lincolnshire
  • North Lincolnshire
  • South Yorkshire

‘These higher totals are slightly more probable in the southern half of the warning area.

‘Given this region has also seen a lot of rain since Thursday, impacts may be more likely than would normally be expected for the time of year here.’

Weather officials issue a yellow weather warning when the weather is ‘likely’ to cause some upheaval.

Power outages are possible today, as is flooding that could damage buildings, delay public transport and cut communities off due to flooded roads. Spray and flooding may make driving tricky.

‘There is a small chance of fast flowing or deep floodwater causing danger to life,’ the alert adds.

Met Office Chief Meteorologist Matthew Lehnert said: ‘It’s a different story further north though, as high pressure brings warmer and sunnier conditions, with higher-than-average temperatures, particularly across parts of western Scotland.

‘Eastern areas are likely to be cooler and at times, cloudier due to winds blowing off the North Sea.’

After several days of non-stop yellow weather warnings, however, next week doesn’t look so bad.

None are currently in place for a start. But forecasters say things will remain ‘unsettled’ and even a tad cold on Tuesday as the wind direction changes.

The north will be feeling the cold especially with showers or long spells of rain and blustery wind expected for most of the UK.

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