Widespread flooding continues to unleash chaos across large areas of the UK – but Brits will be offered some relief from the severe rain and wind we’ve seen in recent days
The UK has been battered by miserable weather in recent days – with widespread flooding continuing to unleash chaos across large chunks of the country.
But Brits won’t need to endure blocked-off roads and floating cars for much longer, with drier conditions offering a much-anticipated relief from the wet and windy weather hammering the country in recent days. This week, a yellow weather warning for rain will remain in place on Tuesday, presenting “a small chance” of heavy rain causing flooding and disruption, but once this passes, conditions will gradually ease, according to the Met Office.
Tuesday’s rain will be focused across East England, the East Midlands, and Yorkshire & Humber, with Nottingham, Leicester, Peterborough, Lincoln, Hull, and Sheffield among the areas to be battered by up to 80mm of heavy rainfall, and strong northeasterly winds.
Across the UK, there will be low cloud, persistent damp weather, and a gusty wind making it feel cool, but, Met Office Meteorologist Aiden McGivern says Wales will be brighter and “northwest England, Western Scotland and Northern Ireland all take the biscuit for bright blue skies.”
On Wednesday, things will start to change. There will be a band of high pressure bringing some showers across some areas of the East Midlands and the southeast, but it will be largely dry with the brightest skies seen in northern areas. This more settled weather will continue into Thursday and Friday, with both days seeing largely dry and bright weather, and some rain returning in the west later.
According to the Met Office’s long-range forecast, unsettled weather may be making a return from this weekend, with “areas of low pressure, initially centred over the Atlantic” slowly meandering eastwards across the UK through the weekend and into much of next week, albeit often on a track that is south-shifted relative to normal.
The forecast reads: “This will bring more widely unsettled conditions, with periods of rain or showers, perhaps heavy and persistent at times, and perhaps accompanied by windy spells too. The wettest conditions, relative to average, are likely across England and Wales, while it may become rather windy for a time across the north and northwest of Scotland early next week, where it will also turn colder.
“Later in the period it may become more widely drier across northern areas, as colder conditions then become established more widely across the UK.”
