The Met Office has predicted heavy rain in 88 UK counties on Wednesday, as Britain is set to be battered once more, with officials issuing rather worrying weather warnings
Britain is set for a battering, with the Met Office forecasting downpours for this week. Weather experts predict rain in 88 counties across the UK on Wednesday (September 2). Rain is expected from early morning, peaking between 8am to 10am, just in time for the morning school run.
The Met Office’s forecast for Wednesday reads: “Showers or longer spells of rain will move eastwards across many central areas during the day. It will remain dry but cloudy in the far north and far southeast.”
Weather maps indicate a large band of rain sweeping over the UK from the west, initially hitting the western coast of Wales. It then moves north-east, soaking north Wales, the Midlands, East Anglia, and the North of England, where up to 16mm of rain will fall within an hour at 9am.
Scattered showers will follow, drenching Devon and Cornwall, before a second wave of rain appears in the afternoon to soak Northern Ireland and most of Scotland, reports the Mirror.
Despite the rain, temperatures will be warm, with highs of 23C in London, 21C in Cardiff and Manchester, 19C in Belfast, and 16C in Glasgow.
No weather warnings have been issued for Wednesday, despite the heavy rain, but the Environment Agency has put out flood alerts for a few waterways on Tuesday (September 1), which will be reviewed ahead of the midweek downpours.
The 88 UK counties predicted to experience rainfall on Wednesday:
Northern Ireland:
County Antrim.
County Armagh.
County Down.
County Fermanagh.
County Londonderry.
County Tyrone.
Scotland:
Aberdeenshire.
Angus.
Argyll and Bute.
Clackmannanshire.
Dumfries and Galloway.
Dundee.
East Ayrshire.
East Dunbartonshire.
East Lothian.
East Renfrewshire.
Falkirk.
Fife.
Glasgow.
Highland.
Inverclyde.
Midlothian.
Moray.
North Ayrshire.
North Lanarkshire.
Orkney.
Perth and Kinross.
Renfrewshire.
Scottish Borders.
Shetland.
South Ayrshire.
South Lanarkshire.
Stirling.
West Dunbartonshire.
West Lothian.
Western Isles.
Wales:
Blaenau Gwent.
Bridgend.
Caerphilly.
Cardiff.
Carmarthenshire.
Ceredigion.
Conwy.
Denbighshire.
Flintshire.
Gwynedd.
Isle of Anglesey.
Merthyr Tydfil.
Monmouthshire.
Neath Port Talbot.
Newport.
Pembrokeshire.
Powys.
Rhondda Cynon Taf.
Swansea.
Torfaen.
Vale of Glamorgan.
Wrexham.
England:
Bristol.
Cheshire.
Cornwall.
County Durham.
Cumbria.
Derbyshire.
Devon.
East Riding of Yorkshire.
Gloucestershire.
Greater Manchester.
Herefordshire.
Lancashire.
Leicestershire.
Lincolnshire.
Merseyside.
North Yorkshire.
Northamptonshire.
Northumberland.
Nottinghamshire.
Rutland.
Shropshire.
Somerset.
South Yorkshire.
Staffordshire.
Tyne and Wear.
Warwickshire.
West Midlands.
West Yorkshire.
Wiltshire.
Worcestershire.