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Kelly-Ann Mills

UK weather: Heavy rain and flood warnings issued as foul conditions sweep Britain

A yellow weather warning for heavy rain and flooding has been issued as bad weather sweeps the UK.

The Met Office has warned that heavy rainfall and possible squally winds may bring some localised flooding and transport disruption.

The warning is in place from 11pm tonight until 3pm on Sunday afternoon.

A spokesman said: "A band of rainfall will arrive across southwest England and Wales shortly after midnight and then push quickly northeastwards before finally clearing from Essex and Kent by late afternoon.

"Some locations will see 20-30 mm of rainfall within 2 or 3 hours, perhaps a large proportion of this in less than an hour.

"This will be falling on near-saturated ground, so is likely to cause surface water flooding in places.

The Met Office's weather map for Saturday evening (Met office)

"Strong winds will gust into the 40s of mph for many, especially close to coasts, but in a few places they may reach between 50 and 60 mph.

"This could perhaps cause some additional disruption, and adds to the very poor travelling conditions."


Sunday's yellow weather warnings (Met office)

Regions and local authorities affected

East of England

  • Essex
  • Hertfordshire
  • Southend-on-Sea
  • Thurrock


(PA)

London & South East England

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


(Amer Ghazzal/REX/Shutterstock)

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
  • Merthyr Tydfil
  • Monmouthshire
  • Neath Port Talbot
  • Newport
  • Powys
  • Rhondda Cynon Taf
  • Swansea
  • Torfaen
  • Vale of Glamorgan

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