UK weather: Cold Arctic air hits UK in just days as Met Office warns of chilly blast

After 2 days of yellowish warnings for thunderstorms, connected Thursday conditions volition crook again and bring chilly upwind little than the seasonal mean expected this clip of year

Brits are acceptable to shiver aboriginal this week arsenic the current rainfall and storms marque mode for beneath mean temperatures.

Yellow warnings for thunderstorms were successful spot for immense swathes of the state yesterday and are successful spot today, too, betwixt 10am and 3pm. There is simply a accidental of powerfulness cuts contiguous arsenic a effect of the rain, with astir 30mm forecast to autumn which could chopped disconnected immoderate communities.

After the rainfall moves on, the soggy conditions volition beryllium replaced by falling temperatures arsenic the mercury falls to beneath mean for the area. The Met Office wrote connected X: “It volition beryllium turning colder mid-week arsenic the country of debased unit presently crossed the UK moves distant towards the continent. This volition unfastened the doorway to colder northerly winds bringing beneath mean temperatures for astir by Thursday.”

Today’s yellowish informing for thunder could mean commuters this greeting could look hard driving conditions and immoderate roadworthy closures. There is besides a accidental of delays and immoderate cancellations to bid and autobus services.

The Met Office warned: “Showers and thunderstorms volition northbound and eastbound crossed confederate Britain done the day and good into the evening, earlier gradually clearing from the west. “Whilst immoderate areas volition miss these, wherever they make 20-30 mm of rainfall wrong 2-3 hours, with a tiny accidental that a fewer places could person 40-50 mm implicit a longer play - peculiarly crossed the southeast of the country this evening.

“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.”

A yellowish informing for thunderstorms was besides successful spot past night, lasting until 3am. It meant immoderate radical crossed the southbound of the federation had agelong nighttime arsenic as thunder boomed overhead.

As of past night, determination were 7 flood warnings - meaning flooding is expected - successful spot crossed the country, and 76 flood alerts.

Regions and section authorities affected by today's yellowish warning

East Midlands

• Northamptonshire

East of England

• Bedford

• Cambridgeshire

• Central Bedfordshire

• Essex

• Hertfordshire

• Luton

• Norfolk

• Peterborough

• Southend-on-Sea

• Suffolk

• Thurrock

London & South East England

• Bracknell Forest

• Brighton and Hove

• Buckinghamshire

• East Sussex

• Greater London

• Hampshire

• Isle of Wight

• Kent

• Medway

• 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

• Devon

• Dorset

• Gloucestershire

• North Somerset

• Somerset

• South Gloucestershire

• Swindon

• Wiltshire

Wales

• Monmouthshire

• Newport

• Torfaen

West Midlands

• Warwickshire

• Worcestershire