Met office issues rain warning for southern Wales and southwest England with flood risk this weekend

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00:00Mixed fortunes for the weekend weather across the UK. For some it will be sunny

00:04and very warm, others will see outbreaks of rain with torrential downpours

00:09leading to localised flooding. So for Saturday it starts off fine and bright

00:13for Scotland, Northern Ireland, the far north of England. The rest of England as

00:16well as Wales will be mostly cloudy with patchy light rain across parts of Wales

00:20and Midlands, Central and Eastern England. That patchy rain continues into the

00:24afternoon breaking up into showers. Some of them will become heavy and thundery

00:28particularly out towards parts of Wales and Central and Western England where

00:32there is the risk of localised flooding is up to 70 millimetres of rain could

00:36fall within six hours. There will also be another batch of wet weather spreading

00:40into southern counties of England later in the day. It will be a widely warm day

00:44though and feeling pleasant in that sunshine where it will be fine and dry

00:48for Western Scotland and Northern Ireland where locally temperatures could

00:51get up into the mid-twenties. Sunday sees a north-south divide, northern areas

00:56cloudy but mostly dry for Scotland and Northern Ireland. Meanwhile England and

01:00Wales will see low-pressure system moving northwards with widespread spells

01:04of rain and heavy and thundery showers particularly heavy across Wales and

01:07southern parts of England.