The low pressure slowed down today, so the rain has taken longer to clear from England and Wales on Tuesday. There will be drier conditions for many this week with a few showers from the North Sea.
The rain just keeps on coming. The low pressure which has been affecting the UK since Sunday has slowed down more than forecast with outbreaks of rain further inland for Tuesday morning. There has been rain over Wales, the Midlands and northeast England into the Scottish Borders. Eastern England continues to be the focus for the heavier bursts and more persistent rain on Tuesday with blustery winds and plenty of cloud circling around the low.
You can see on the 24-hour accumulated rainfall totals that NW England, across the Peak District into eastern Egnland and Yorkshire have had another bout of heavy rain. With all the wet weather in the previous week, there are ongoing flooding problems with saturated fields and swollen rivers.
The Environment Agency still had 49 Flood warnings in place at lunchtime on the 1st and the Met Office has a yellow weather warning for heavy rain on Tuesday. The areas likely to see the most impacts this afternoon are the East Midlands, and into the early evening; East Anglia and the Home Counties for the evening rush hour. There is still a lot of standing water about.
“Further rain, locally heavy, will develop for a time on Tuesday leading to the potential for some impacts and disruption.” MO
National Rail reported “Heavy rain has flooded the railway between Hooton and Chester, closing all lines between these stations. As a result, Chester circular services will be cancelled or revised to terminate at / start back from Hooton.”
Scotland and Northern Ireland will have a fine, brighter but cool end to the day. The winds continue to push cloud and dampness inland over Wales and England although southwestern Britain should be fair and drier.
Patchy rain continues to flow in off the North Sea with low cloud and murk into the night for eastern England. The heavier rain in the southeast will edge southwards towards Sussex as many places continue to dry up. Showery outbreaks trail back towards Norwich with a small risk of thundery bursts towards the coast early evening. The improving picture is slow.
There will be this damp flow off the North Sea through the night with well-scattered showery outbreaks for southeast Britain by Wednesday morning. Many places will still be rather grey, feeling a bit damp but missing most of the showers. For northern Britain and Northern Ireland, it will be fine, sunny but with a nippy start.
This feed of showers, including a few sharp ones, will continue through Wednesday on the northeasterly wind over East Anglia, London and the Home Counties even reaching the Isle of Wight, but it won’t be the heavy and persistent rain that some places have suffered through over the past week.
Thursday and Friday look dry although there will be frontal rain from the west for the start of the weekend, in a milder southerly flow.
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It's a lovely mild chart, GS. IMO, the cold can stay away until it becomes useful, in Smarch! 😁
It actually went bright - not sunny, but bright - briefly here around 3pm. Now the cloud is closing in again though.
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Don Yup though it might not be too long before we return to more average temperatures with a westerly flow rather then a long fetch SW flow from a big Euro high.
