Heavy rain forecast as Met Office issues yellow weather warning covering three days

A three day weather warning for heavy rain has been issued by the Met Office.

The yellow alert, which covers Wrexham, is in place from midnight through until midday on Thursday.

Chief Meteorologist Neil Armstrong, said: “A wide area of rainfall will move across central parts of the UK on Monday evening and bring heavy rain for the following 36-48 hours.

“The rain will be heaviest across western facing hills, in particular parts of the southern Pennines and northern Peak District where we could see up to 120mm over the course of the warning period with 40-70mm of rain widely across the whole Amber area.

“Heavy rain will impact the whole of England and Wales by Wednesday with Yellow warnings for rain in force.

“By Thursday 100-150mm of rain could fall over high ground in Wales and Northern England.

“As well as rainfall, rapid snow melt will add to these accumulations, adding 5-10mm in the worst affected areas.

“These amounts of rainfall along with snow melt present a real threat of flooding, keep up to date with the latest Met Office forecast as well as flood warnings from the Environment Agency and Natural Resources Wales.”