UK weather forecast: Brits face three days of rain as heavy downpours hit Britain
THICK cloud from the north and east is bringing heavy showers – welcome news for gardeners during lockdown. The Met Office says that while today will kick off with “occasional rain”, heavy showers are developing, with the weather remaining “unsettled” until the weekend. A band of rain was forecast to start sweeping across the UK […]
THICK cloud from the north and east is bringing heavy showers – welcome news for gardeners during lockdown.
The Met Office says that while today will kick off with “occasional rain”, heavy showers are developing, with the weather remaining “unsettled” until the weekend.
A band of rain was forecast to start sweeping across the UK overnight, from the north, the Met Office said on Tuesday.
Thick cloud will thus continue to build across the country this morning, bringing showers first thing.
Wednesday will be “cloudy at first with occasional rain”, and “more patchy rain” in the south – along with extensive cloud cover.
“Temperatures will be around 11-12C in many places by dawn Wednesday”, the Met Office adds.
Low pressure will drift southwards towards the country on Wednesday, and the weather fronts are “initially weak”.
But as the “jet stream dives south, it interacts with these weather fronts and tends to form an area of low pressure at 30,000ft, known as an upper vortex, and that causes the air to rise.
“It activates these weather fronts and causes some fairly heavy downpours by Wednesday afternoon.”
This will see it “turn more showery in central and western areas with some sunny intervals, but also heavy showers developing”.
By early Thursday heavy rainfall will become more widespread, across Wales, into Cornwall and western parts of Devon as well.
“This could cause some impact, so we will be monitoring this closely,” the agency said.
Thursday will have temperatures of about 11-12C first thing, and sunshine in East Anglia.
But in the southwest, there will be “heavy rainfall in Wales”.
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Both England and wales will see sunny spells, in between heavy downpours.
The outlook for both Thursday and Friday is that it will “remain unsettled throughout with showers and some longer spells of rain, some of this heavy”.
There will be “some drier, sunnier interludes,” however.
