Met Office issue updated thunderstorm UK weather warning - full list of areas affected
by Benjamin Blosse · Manchester Evening NewsThe Met Office has updated its weather warning for thunderstorms set to hit large parts of England and Wales on Saturday.
The weather warning came into force at 1am on Saturday (September 21), and is in place until midnight on Sunday. It affects large swathes of southern and south-west England, the Midlands and Wales, alongside parts of South Yorkshire, Cheshire and Merseyside.
In an updated warning on Saturday, the Met Office said: "Whilst some places will remain dry, thunderstorms and heavy showers could cause some disruption on Saturday in a few places.
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"Whilst there is some uncertainty in the details , scattered showers and thunderstorms will develop across parts of southern England and spread northwestwards through Saturday morning before showers develop more widely later in the day. While much of the time it will be dry, with not all places seeing showers or storms, where they do occur 20-40 mm could fall in less than an hour, with a small chance of isolated accumulations of 50-80 mm over the course of a few hours.
"In addition, hail and frequent lightning may accompany the most intense storms, especially during Saturday afternoon and evening in parts of the Midlands, western England and east Wales."
The Met Office has said these regions are all affected by the warning:
Regions and local authorities affected
East Midlands
- Derby
- Derbyshire
- Leicester
- Leicestershire
- Lincolnshire
- Northamptonshire
- Nottingham
- Nottinghamshire
- Rutland
East of England
- Bedford
- Cambridgeshire
- Central Bedfordshire
- Hertfordshire
- Luton
- Peterborough
London & South East England
- Bracknell Forest
- Buckinghamshire
- Hampshire
- Milton Keynes
- Oxfordshire
- Reading
- Slough
- Southampton
- West Berkshire
- Windsor and Maidenhead
- Wokingham
North West England
- Cheshire East
- Cheshire West and Chester
- Halton
- Merseyside
South West England
- Bath and North East Somerset
- Bournemouth Christchurch and Poole
- Bristol
- Cornwall
- Devon
- Dorset
- Gloucestershire
- Isles of Scilly
- North Somerset
- Plymouth
- Somerset
- South Gloucestershire
- Swindon
- Torbay
- Wiltshire
Wales
- Blaenau Gwent
- Bridgend
- Caerphilly
- Cardiff
- Carmarthenshire
- Ceredigion
- Conwy
- Denbighshire
- Flintshire
- Gwynedd
- Isle of Anglesey
- Merthyr Tydfil
- Monmouthshire
- Neath Port Talbot
- Newport
- Pembrokeshire
- Powys
- Rhondda Cynon Taf
- Swansea
- Torfaen
- Vale of Glamorgan
- Wrexham
West Midlands
- Herefordshire
- Shropshire
- Staffordshire
- Stoke-on-Trent
- Telford and Wrekin
- Warwickshire
- West Midlands Conurbation
- Worcestershire
Yorkshire & Humber
- South Yorkshire