Met Office issues yellow thunderstorm warning for parts of England and Wales

A yellowish thunderstorm informing has been issued by the Met Office, with flooding and disruption imaginable successful parts of England and Wales.

More than fractional a month’s worthy of rainfall could deed immoderate areas, with 40-50mm falling successful 1 to 2 hours, the Met Office said.

The informing comes into unit astatine noon connected Monday and lasts until 10pm, covering astir of Wales, the West Midlands, and galore confederate English counties.

It comes arsenic a 42-year-old man’s assemblage was recovered connected Sunday aft searches for a swimmer who was reported missing from Loch Ard, Trossachs nationalist park, astatine 9pm connected Saturday.

Police Scotland’s diving and marine portion were involved, on with a upland rescue squad and an aerial enactment unit. There are not thought to beryllium immoderate suspicious circumstances surrounding the death.

On Sunday afternoon, showers started to deed the Reading and Bristol areas, with much terrible thunderstorms expected to make connected Monday, Met Office meteorologist Becky Mitchell said.

Mitchell said: “It’s different blistery and humid time crossed the confederate areas and that’s going to trigger thundery showers.

“On Monday betwixt 20mm and 30mm of rainfall could autumn successful an hr and betwixt 40mm and 50mm successful the abstraction of 1 to 2 hours.”

Hail and localised powerfulness cuts, arsenic good arsenic flooding and disruption, are a anticipation wrong the informing country depending connected however agelong the dense showers linger, she said.

The mean rainfall successful May is 70mm, truthful immoderate areas could spot much than fractional the month’s worthy of rain, the forecaster added.

Northern Ireland could spot immoderate dense rainfall connected Sunday nighttime and the north-west of England and confederate Scotland could spot scattered showers connected Monday afternoon, but the aforesaid level of interaction arsenic the informing portion is not expected.

From Tuesday onwards the upwind is forecast to crook much settled, and Northern Ireland and Scotland could spot their hottest days of the twelvemonth truthful far, Mitchell said.