The Met Office has predicted a month’s worth of rain fall could pummel parts of the UK in just a few hours – the exact date this rain is set to hit has been revealed
The UK is set to be battered by a month’s worth of rain in the space of just a few hours in a dreary forecast for the start of summer.
Met Office forecasts have shown heavy showers could dump nearly as much rain in less than a day then the UK had during the whole month of May. The gloomy weather is set to hit a huge part of the country on Saturday, June 7. Forecasters have predicted about 30mm of rain could fall in just three hours in southern parts of the UK, with up to 50mm of rainfall over the course of the day.
This could be more than the 32.8mm of rain that fell over England throughout May, according to Met Office data. Last month was unusually dry as this rainfall was almost half the month’s typical average.
The Met Office has forecast heavier and more frequent showers on Saturday, with hail and thunder possible. The dull weather could also be paired with some unseasonably strong winds in coastal areas.
Brits have been warned that some areas could be at risk of surface-water flooding after Saturday’s showers. June has already proved to be a much wetter month than May. From June 1 to June 3 there has already been 10.7mm of rain, a fifth of the 50.9mm recorded for the UK during May.
Despite this miserable forecast, it is not all bad news for the weekend weather forecast as Sunday looks to be a drier day – before further rain in northern England on Monday.
Meteorologist Honor Criswick revealed the wet weather was because of low pressure. She said: “At the north of the country this brings in a north-westerly wind, so gradually drags in frontal systems out from the west and south-west, and that leads to some pretty changeable and wet weather at times.”
Met Office spokeswoman Andrea Bishop said the weather for the rest of the week would be “changeable”. She said: “Generally the theme is the continuation of something a bit cooler, a bit breezy at times, and a bit wet at times too.
“We are keeping an eye on a new front which looks like it will move in on Friday night, bringing rain which could be heavy, and possibly thundery at times on Saturday.
“Rainfall totals of 20-30mm are likely in places and, at present, this looks like it will affect the southern half of the UK. We are keeping a close eye on this to see how it evolves over the next 24 hours or so.”