Met Office Weather Warning for Saturday

Following a build of very warm and humid air at the end of this week there is the potential for the development of intense thunderstorms over the UK from Friday night.

In this situation large amounts of energy are available in the atmosphere and this coupled with high moisture content can lead to rapidly freshening winds, torrential downpours, in places thunder & lightning and maybe large hail.

There remains large uncertainty in their development but the risk has now been extended further west for this update (Thursday 17th July), with further updates possible in the coming days.

The warning is so broad because the location of these thundery downpours is uncertain. Where they do form, some torrential downpours are possible with frequent lightning, large hail and locally strong gusts.

Significant flooding is possible. The public should be aware of the risk of disruption from any of these elements.The warning is currently in place to cover the whole of Saturday.