Overview
- Yellow rain warning runs from midnight to 9 p.m. Thursday across large parts of England and Wales, with a separate wind warning from 9 a.m. to midnight along eastern and southern coasts.
- Forecasts call for 20–30 mm of rain widely, 30–50 mm in places, and gusts broadly 45–55 mph with 65–75 mph possible on exposed coasts if the low strengthens.
- The Met Office warns of road spray and flooding, longer travel times, possible power cuts, coastal hazards and some damage to buildings.
- Colder air follows late week, bringing below-average temperatures and a chance of wintry showers over higher ground in the far north of the UK.
- In parallel, U.S. forecasters flag a cooler, unsettled midweek with lake-effect precipitation and isolated damaging wind gusts, SAWS recently issued severe thunderstorm alerts in South Africa, and a central Caribbean disturbance has a high short-term chance to develop.