Flood warnings issued across UK as residents urged to 'act now' before horror thunderstorms

The Environment Agency has issued flood warnings contiguous arsenic 4 Met Office upwind warnings crossed 3 days are successful spot for respective regions of the United Kingdom

Dozens of flood alerts and warnings are successful spot - arsenic up to 80mm of rain is acceptable to tube crossed the state this weekend.

Four upwind warnings person been issued crossed 3 days, including today, arsenic the Met Office expects downpours and thunderstorms volition blight our weekend.

Parts of Wales and the Midlands are feared to spot the heaviest rainfall, peculiarly passim Sunday. Nine flood warnings, and dozens of little terrible flood alerts are successful place, the Environment Agency says. Four of the warnings interest waterways crossed the Southwest of England, including 2 sections of the Somerset coast.

The Environment Agency says anyone who lives adjacent the pursuing places should "act now" up of the rain, arsenic the heaviest is mostly expected connected Sunday afternoon. Sunday's weather warning reads up to 80mm of rainfall is forecast successful parts. The Met Office says the weather could origin a nonaccomplishment of powerfulness to homes and businesses, particularly crossed Wales and Southwest of England.

"Thundery downpours person developed crossed parts of confederate England, and volition past into Friday evening, bringing predominant lightning, gusty winds, hail, and spells of dense rain," Met Office Chief Meteorologist, Jason Kelly, said.

"The hazard of thunderstorms persists into the play with perchance longer spells of dense rainfall for immoderate on with a continued hazard of hail and lightning accompanying the astir aggravated storms. Parts of the Midlands, confederate England and eastbound Wales look astatine top hazard of seeing these conditions.

"The warnings screen the areas of the state astir astatine hazard of seeing thunderstorms but not everyone wrong a informing country volition acquisition a thunderstorm. For galore overmuch of the clip it volition stay dry.”

The Tyne estuary successful Tyne and Wear is taxable to a flood alert, contempt being successful the northbound of England, immoderate region from immoderate of the upwind warnings. Two flood warnings person been issued successful Wales, some for points on the Wye estuary successful the eastbound of the nation. No warnings oregon alerts are successful spot crossed Northern Ireland oregon Scotland currently.

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• North Sea seashore astatine Easington and Kilnsea, East Yorkshire

• North Sea seashore astatine Hornsea, East Yorkshire

• River Chelt astatine Springbank, Cheltenham

• River Chelt astatine Uckington and Boddington, Gloucestershire

• Somerset seashore astatine Porlock Weir

• Somerset seashore astatine Portishead and Portbury Dock, seafront properties and Portbury Dock areas

• Wye Estuary astatine Brockweir, Gloucestershire

• Wye Estuary astatine Chepstow, Monmouthshire

• Wye Estuary adjacent Tintern, Monmouthshire

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• Christchurch Harbour, Dorset
• Climping Seafront, West Sussex
• Coast astatine North Morecambe Bay
• Coast from Gretna to Silloth, Cumbria area
• Coast from Heacham to northbound of King's Lynn successful Norfolk
• Coast from Heysham to Cockerham, Lancashire
• Hunstanton seashore successful Norfolk
• King's Lynn, West Lynn and The Wash frontage successful Norfolk
• Lune estuary southbound westbound of Lancaster
• Mersey Estuary astatine Warrington
• Mersey Estuary from Liverpool and Wirral to Widnes
• North Cornwall seashore from Lands End to Chapel Porth
• North Devon seashore from Hartland Point to Lynmouth
• North Sea seashore astatine Skipsea, Hornsea and Mappleton, East Yorkshire
• North Sea seashore astatine Withernsea, Easington and Kilnsea, East Yorkshire
• North Sea seashore from Staithes to Whitby including tidal River Esk, North Yorkshire
• Plymouth Sound, Wembury Bay and tidal estuaries
• Somerset seashore astatine Clevedon
• Somerset seashore astatine Porlock Weir
• Somerset seashore astatine Portishead and Portbury Dock
• South Cornwall seashore from Gribbin Head to Rame Head
• South Cornwall Coast from Lands End to Lizard Point
• South Cornwall seashore from Lizard Point to Gribbin Head excluding the Tidal Fal Estuary
• South Devon Estuaries
• The northbound Norfolk seashore from East Cley to Kelling Hard, including Salthouse
• The northbound Norfolk seashore from Old Hunstanton, to and including Cley
• Tidal Camel Estuary astatine Rock and debased lying properties connected the Little Petherick Creek, Cornwall
• Tidal Fal Estuary, Cornwall
• Tidal River Avon astatine Bristol, Pill and Shirehampton
• Tidal Thames riverside from Putney Bridge to Teddington Weir, Greater London
• Tidal Trent for riverside areas from Gainsborough to the Humber confluence
• Tributaries successful Cheltenham and Tewkesbury
• Tributaries successful Gloucester
• Tyne estuary, Tyne and Wear
• West Bay Harbour, Dorset
• Wye Estuary successful Gloucestershire
• Wyre estuary from Fleetwood and Knott End to Little Eccleston, Lancashire
• Coast from Aberthaw to Severn Bridge
• Usk Estuary
• North Gower Coast
• Ceredigion seashore betwixt Clarach and Cardigan
• Swansea Bay and the Gower coast