UK weather: Met Office explains exactly when horrible rain and wind will finally stop

Widespread flooding continues to unleash chaos crossed ample areas of the UK - but Brits volition beryllium offered immoderate alleviation from the terrible rainfall and upwind we've seen successful caller days

The UK has been battered by miserable weather successful caller days - with wide flooding continuing to unleash chaos crossed ample chunks of the country.

But Brits won't request to endure blocked-off roads and floating cars for overmuch longer, with drier conditions offering a much-anticipated alleviation from the bedewed and windy weather hammering the state successful caller days. This week, a yellowish upwind informing for rainfall volition stay successful spot connected Tuesday, presenting "a tiny chance" of dense rainfall causing flooding and disruption, but erstwhile this passes, conditions volition gradually ease, according to the Met Office.

Tuesday's rainfall volition beryllium focused crossed East England, the East Midlands, and Yorkshire & Humber, with Nottingham, Leicester, Peterborough, Lincoln, Hull, and Sheffield among the areas to beryllium battered by up to 80mm of dense rainfall, and beardown northeasterly winds.

Across the UK, determination volition beryllium debased cloud, persistent damp weather, and a gusty upwind making it consciousness cool, but, Met Office Meteorologist Aiden McGivern says Wales volition beryllium brighter and "northwest England, Western Scotland and Northern Ireland each instrumentality the biscuit for agleam bluish skies."

On Wednesday, things volition commencement to change. There volition beryllium a set of precocious unit bringing immoderate showers crossed immoderate areas of the East Midlands and the southeast, but it volition beryllium mostly adust with the brightest skies seen successful bluish areas. This much settled upwind volition proceed into Thursday and Friday, with some days seeing mostly adust and agleam weather, and immoderate rainfall returning successful the westbound later.

According to the Met Office's long-range forecast, unsettled upwind whitethorn beryllium making a instrumentality from this weekend, with "areas of debased pressure, initially centred implicit the Atlantic" dilatory meandering eastwards crossed the UK done the play and into overmuch of adjacent week, albeit often connected a way that is south-shifted comparative to normal.

The forecast reads: "This volition bring much wide unsettled conditions, with periods of rainfall oregon showers, possibly dense and persistent astatine times, and possibly accompanied by windy spells too. The wettest conditions, comparative to average, are apt crossed England and Wales, portion it whitethorn go alternatively windy for a clip crossed the northbound and northwest of Scotland aboriginal adjacent week, wherever it volition besides crook colder.

"Later successful the play it whitethorn go much wide drier crossed bluish areas, arsenic colder conditions past go established much wide crossed the UK."