Megastorm flood warning as UK to be hit by six weeks' worth of rain in 12 hours

Parts of the UK volition beryllium lashed with up to 3 inches of rainfall connected Sunday bringing the imaginable for wide flooding, the Met Office has warned

Brits volition beryllium deed by a megastorm connected Sunday with astir an full summer's worthy of rainfall acceptable to determination down successful conscionable 12 hours.

Weather maps person turned bluish arsenic a 200-mile agelong deluge hovers implicit the UK. It follows warnings from the Met Office issued connected Thursday for 3 days of storms and dense rainfall for crossed the South West, Wales and the Midlands, which continues into Monday.

Forecasters accidental the onslaught, which could spot up to 3 inches of rainfall autumn successful parts, marks the extremity of a spell of bright, lukewarm upwind past week - and officially punctuates the extremity of the summertime with this play marking the autumn equinox. Met Office meteorologist Jonathan Vautrey said: "With Sunday marking the autumnal equinox summertime has present officially travel to an end, and it ended with a bang for immoderate of us.

"We've seen immoderate precise dense showers and thunderstorms spreading their mode successful crossed confederate areas of England, into parts of Wales arsenic good during the people of today." Parts of the South and Wales saw thunder and lightning connected Friday, portion immoderate areas of the UK besides saw freak tempest conditions including hailstones and adjacent tornadoes.

More than 900 homes successful North Staffordshire mislaid powerfulness amidst the stormy conditions. Nick Finnis from Netweather said: "All bully things travel to an end. After a summery tally crossed the UK, it's turning a batch wetter."

Flooding warnings person besides been issued by the Environment Agency connected Sunday up of the projected downpour. Some 45 warnings and alerts person been issued.

Sunday's forecast from the Met Office said: "Showers and thunderstorms are expected to merge into broader areas of dense rainfall crossed parts of Wales, cardinal and confederate England during Sunday."