UK weather: Brits brace for thunderstorms and heavy rain ahead of frosty nights and SNOW in parts as temperatures plunge

WEATHER warnings person been issued arsenic Storm Kirk misses the UK but brings with it the chilly weather.

Brits are bracing themselves for the coming acold aerial and downpours arsenic the ex-hurricane passes conscionable southbound of the country.

There are plentifulness of dense showers crossed the UK, particularly sweeping done the southbound eastbound of England.

Northern Scotland appears to beryllium avoiding the rainfall but whitethorn beryllium subjected to beardown winds and a bitter chill mounting successful shortly.

The Met Office has issued yellowish upwind warnings for thunderstorms successful the southbound eastbound until 10pm today.

Met Office meteorologist Alex Deakin said implicit the adjacent mates of days "colder aerial is coming."

Deakin said: We've got the northerly winds mounting successful present - a motion of things to come."

Temperatures conscionable stay successful the treble digits contempt the downpours, astir 11 oregon 12C, whilst areas successful confederate England are adjacent getting into the precocious teens.

Those down southbound are facing intermittent sunshine, bumping the somesthesia up to 19 degrees.

It looks similar determination volition beryllium patches of dense rainfall and beardown winds that whitethorn adjacent endanger hail and thunderstorms spreading from the southwest.

It looks similar this volition make implicit land, during the morning, lasting done the day and into the evening.

Some areas volition stay unaffected but others mightiness look 20-30 mm of rainfall wrong 2-3 hours - immoderate adjacent 40-50 mm implicit a longer period.

Many of these areas person been fixed a yellowish upwind informing which means determination could beryllium disruption to travel.

This means vehicles could beryllium affected by spray, flooding oregon hail which could pb to longer and much unsafe journeys.

Public transport mightiness beryllium delayed and buildings whitethorn beryllium taxable to harm from lightening strikes.

Deakin added: "As yo you spell done to this evening the however, if anything, are becoming much widespread.

"So again, immoderate precise dense downpours astir - not a large evening unreserved hr astatine all."

Hail and lightning volition beryllium further hazards, with a hazard of impermanent hail accumulations successful places.

In addition, dense showers and thunderstorms volition beryllium associated with beardown and gusty winds successful the southbound of the informing country astatine times with 40 mph gusts possible.

As the acold upwind kicks successful connected Thursday, Scotland volition beryllium the archetypal to get a wintertime acquisition with freezing somesthesia connected the mode and possibly adjacent snow.

Facing an arctic blast towards the extremity of the week, Scotland could get a furniture of snowfall connected it's highest mountains.

Temperatures of volition enactment supra 10C during the daytime but determination volition beryllium frosty spells passim the nighttime clip particularly successful the bluish territories.

Hurricane Kirk is losing it's tropical vigor and has been named tempest Kirk by the French upwind work arsenic it travels done Europe.

It's existent way suggests it volition miss the UK but could origin occupation successful different regions.

Deakin said: "It's truly the cardinal confederate parts of France that volition carnivore the brunt but besides the northbound of Spain too.

"There are imaginable for immoderate damaging gusts of winds crossed parts of France."

In its long-range forecast implicit the pursuing week the Met Office said determination volition beryllium a play of “unsettled” upwind with "frequent bouts of upwind and rainfall associated with areas of debased pressure."