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a potential for surface-water flooding.  “Within the warning areas, potential impacts include the chance for some power cuts, difficult travelling conditions thanks to sudden changes in driving conditions and possible flooding of travel routes, homes and businesses. Hail and lightning could also

strikes and hail making road conditions dangerous.  “Strong winds will also affect southern parts of England and Wales through Monday and at first on Tuesday, with gusts of up to 60 or 70mph possible near the coasts in the far southwest, and around 50mph possible inland especially near to the heaviest

in the southeast later, bringing an increasing risk of showers and elevated thunderstorms, particularly overnight. Northern England and Scotland will also see a rising chance of showers from mid-afternoon, extending to Northern Ireland later. There is a small chance of torrential downpours with hail

. READ MORE: Met Office Deep Dive: Storm season past and present “Once again, another thunderstorm warning issued here across parts of England and Wales. Pushing its way north-eastwards and some heavy bursts of rain along with it. Hail, possible frequent lightning. So, an unsettled day once again

, Northern Ireland and around Irish Sea coasts, but eastern coasts will also be affected at times on Friday and Saturday. There will be gales which could lead to temporary blizzard conditions as well as a risk of hail and thunder in some locations. Although the south of the UK is likely to avoid

of rain is possible in an hour here with a good chance as much as 60-80 mm rain could fall within 2-3 hours in some places. As well as this, frequent lightning and large hail are possible”.  “This could result in flash flooding, transport delays and dangerous driving conditions, especially on the M4

of England, bringing a lot of rain in a short period of time, along with the risk of hail and frequent lightning. At the same time heavy rain, initially arriving into the southwest, will fairly steadily move northeast, potentially bringing some substantial rainfall totals to parts of Northern Ireland

conventions. A-Z of storm names for 2020-21  A: Aiden  B: Bella C: Christoph D: Darcy E: Evert (Eh-vert) F: Fleur G: Gavin H: Heulwen (Hail-wen) I: Iain J: Julia K: Klaas (Klaa-s) L: Lilah (Ly-la) M: Minne (Minn-eh) N: Naia (N-eye-a) O: Oscar P: Phoebe R: Ravi S: Saidhbhin (Sigh-veen) T: Tobias V

, and may fall as organised bands moving quickly to the northeast. These bands are capable of bringing hail and locally very gusty winds. While coastal gales will continue, especially in the west, temporary gusts exceeding gale force are possible around the heaviest showers and may not be confined

; no qualifier = Moderate. + = Heavy (well developed in the case of +FC and +PO); -= Light; no qualifier = Moderate. BC = Patches BL = Blowing BR = Mist DR = Drifting DS = DuststormDU = Dust DZ = Drizzle FC = Funnel cloud FG = Fog FU = Smoke FZ = Freezing GR = Hail (>5 mm) GS = Small hail or snow