Met Office issues yellow rain warnings for western England and Wales

The Met Office has issued multiple yellow weather warnings for heavy, persistent rain across large parts of western England and Wales on Tuesday, November 4, with some alerts continuing into the early hours of Wednesday, November 5. The warnings cover Cumbria in the north west and widespread areas of the South West, parts of Gloucestershire and a number of counties in Wales, with differing start and end times depending on the location.

Cumbria’s alert runs from midnight until 11:00 on Tuesday and warns of another period of persistent, at times heavy, rainfall following wet conditions on Sunday night and early Monday. Many places within the Cumbria warning area are expected to receive a further 30 to 60 millimetres of rain, with a few locally prone spots possibly seeing as much as 80 millimetres. In the South West and parts of Gloucestershire and Wales, yellow warnings generally come into force at midday on Tuesday and remain in place until 06:00 on Wednesday. Forecasters say 20 to 30 millimetres of rain is likely widely across those areas, with exposed hills such as south facing slopes in the Brecon Beacons and Dartmoor potentially receiving more than 50 millimetres.