UK weather: Brits facing glorious 22C blast on sunny Friday ahead of thunderstorm weekend

Some Brits tin look guardant to 22C contiguous successful immoderate places portion others tin expect thunderstorms rumbling implicit their homes which whitethorn spell into the play successful immoderate areas

Brits are acceptable to cook successful glorious 22C conditions successful immoderate places contiguous - portion others tremble during thunderstorms washing retired the remainder of the day.

The Met Office says the mercury volition nudge 22C astir London arsenic the sunny upwind experienced by galore continues. But though galore volition beryllium enjoying the conditions, others successful the southbound and successful Wales person been warned to expect thunderstorms rumbling overhead.

Yellow warnings are successful places for millions of Brits arsenic the play gets disconnected to a soggy start. The Met Office’s forecast reads: “Cloud burning backmost to eastbound coasts, with sunny spells developing.

“Heavy showers and thunderstorms volition interruption retired crossed confederate England and Wales successful the afternoon. Feeling lukewarm for many.”

The yellowish informing for thunderstorms is successful spot time from noon until 8pm. Another yellowish informing is successful spot for Saturday covering a immense portion of the southbound of the state from 1am until midnight. The informing reads: “Whilst immoderate places volition stay dry, wherever thundery showers bash occur, they volition bring predominant lightning, gusty winds, perchance immoderate ample hail, arsenic good arsenic little spells of dense rain.

"As overmuch arsenic 15-25 mm of rainfall autumn whitethorn autumn wrong an hour, with a precise tiny accidental of 30-40 mm falling successful 3 hours; the second astir apt crossed southwest England. Showers volition thin to easiness and slice during Friday evening.”

Met Office Chief Meteorologist, Neil Armstrong, said: “Thundery downpours are expected to make successful places crossed the southbound connected Friday day bringing predominant lightning, gusty winds, hail, and spells of dense rain.

The hazard of thunderstorms persists into Saturday with perchance longer spells of dense rainfall for immoderate on with a continued hazard of hail and lightning accompanying the astir aggravated storms, peculiarly successful parts of the Midlands, confederate England and eastbound Wales during Saturday day and evening.

“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 overmuch of the clip it volition stay dry.

“We are besides expecting these showers to merge into longer spells of dense rainfall connected Sunday and Monday crossed immoderate confederate and cardinal parts, and erstwhile the afloat details go clearer, we whitethorn good contented further terrible weather warnings truthful support up to day with the latest forecast for your area.”

Regions and section authorities affected by Friday’s warning

East Midlands

• Northamptonshire

East of England

• Bedford

• Central Bedfordshire

• Hertfordshire

• Luton

London & South East England

• Bracknell Forest

• Buckinghamshire

• Greater London

• Hampshire

• Isle of Wight

• Milton Keynes

• Oxfordshire

• Portsmouth

• Reading

• Slough

• Southampton

• Surrey

• West Berkshire

• West Sussex

• Windsor and Maidenhead

• Wokingham

South West England

• Bath and North East Somerset

• Bournemouth Christchurch and Poole

• Bristol

• Cornwall

• Devon

• Dorset

• Gloucestershire

• North Somerset

• Plymouth

• Somerset

• South Gloucestershire

• Swindon

• Torbay

• Wiltshire

Wales

• Blaenau Gwent

• Bridgend

• Caerphilly

• Cardiff

• Carmarthenshire

• Ceredigion

• Merthyr Tydfil

• Monmouthshire

• Neath Port Talbot

• Newport

• Pembrokeshire

• Powys

• Rhondda Cynon Taf

• Swansea

• Torfaen

• Vale of Glamorgan

West Midlands

• Herefordshire

• Shropshire

• Staffordshire

• Warwickshire

• West Midlands Conurbation

• Worcestershire