Met Office points pressing warnings as ‘flooding possible’ throughout most of UK

The Met Office has issued several urgent weather warnings covering the vast majority of the UK, as the country is hit by torrential downpours.

Having started in the early hours of this morning (Wednesday, May 22), heavy downpours are set to cover the country for most of the next 48 hours. And while most of the UK has been slapped with a yellow warning by the Met Office, an amber warning has also been placed on one area, with locals warned over serious flooding.

Covering the areas of Derbyshire, as well as parts of the north west, Wales and Yorkshire and Humber, the warning claims that throughout today and tomorrow the areas will be hit with a minimum of 30-40mm of rain, while parts of the Welsh mountains could see a whopping 100-150mm of rain.

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The areas listed are Blackburn with Darwen, Cheshire East, Cheshire West and Chester, Greater Manchester, Halton, Lancashire, Merseyside, Warrington, Conwy, Denbighshire, Flintshire, Gwynedd, Wrexham and West Yorkshire.

For the rest of the country under the yellow warnings, a Met Office spokesman said: “An area of rain is expected to develop across eastern and central England and then move northwestwards to affect northern England and north Wales during Wednesday afternoon. The area of rain could then become slow moving, heavy and persistent, especially over north facing hills, before clearing during Thursday morning.

“There is a lot of uncertainty over exactly where the heaviest rain will occur and this warning is likely to be updated. Many places will see 30-40 mm of rain, while a few areas may receive 60-80 mm. There is also a small chance that a few upland areas could see much higher totals, in the order of 100-150 mm.”

The full list of areas impacted by the yellow warning is:

East Midlands

• Derby

• Derbyshire

• Leicester

• Leicestershire

• Lincolnshire

• Northamptonshire

• Nottingham

• Nottinghamshire

• Rutland

East of England

• Bedford

• Cambridgeshire

• Central Bedfordshire

• Norfolk

• Peterborough

London & South East England

• Milton Keynes

• Oxfordshire

North East England

• Darlington

• Durham

• Gateshead

• Hartlepool

• Middlesbrough

• Newcastle upon Tyne

• North Tyneside

• Northumberland

• Redcar and Cleveland

• South Tyneside

• Stockton-on-Tees

• Sunderland

North West England

• Blackburn with Darwen

• Blackpool

• Cheshire East

• Cheshire West and Chester

• Cumbria

• Greater Manchester

• Halton

• Lancashire

• Merseyside

• Warrington

South West England

• Bath and North East Somerset

• Bristol

• Gloucestershire

• North Somerset

• South Gloucestershire

Wales

• Ceredigion

• Conwy

• Denbighshire

• Flintshire

• Gwynedd

• Isle of Anglesey

• Monmouthshire

• Powys

• Wrexham

West Midlands

• Herefordshire

• Shropshire

• Staffordshire

• Stoke-on-Trent

• Telford and Wrekin

• Warwickshire

• West Midlands Conurbation

• Worcestershire

Yorkshire & Humber

• East Riding of Yorkshire

• Kingston upon Hull

• North East Lincolnshire

• North Lincolnshire

• North Yorkshire

• South Yorkshire

• West Yorkshire

• York

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