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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

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

, 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

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

. Meanwhile in the north there are thundery showers moving eastwards across the country today, bringing intense showers in places with the potential for hail too. A band of heavy thundery showers will move across parts of the south east and East Anglia on Thursday morning, not everywhere will see

October 1961-1990 rainfall Radar imagery 3-hourly radar imagery from 14/15 October 2002 Please note: The empirical relationship between radar reflectivity and rainfall rate is fixed whereas in reality this is highly dependent on precipitation type and is very different for rain and hail. Last updated: 11 February 2013 © Crown Copyright

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

. Quite blustery with some heavy spells of rain mixed in too, possibly even some hail and thunder. So quite an unsettled and possibly quite wet day by the time we reach the afternoon on Wednesday. But still once again some sunny breaks across eastern areas mixed in with the showers. Temperatures

bringing the chance of hail and gusty winds for a few places.  A Yellow Warning for thunderstorms has been issued, covering Wales and a large area of southern and central England from 1400 to 2100 on Saturday. The warning highlights potential disruption to travel, the chance of power cuts