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More than half a month’s rain has fallen across two days in southern England and Wales up to Friday night.
A Met Office yellow weather warning was in place for the second day running as wet weather continued due to large patches of rain crossing the channel from France, but had subsided by Saturday morning.
There were warnings for flooding, power cuts and travel disruption with outbreaks of heavy rain “persistent” in some areas and “particularly heavy” in others.
For the weekend, for many, it will be a bright and dry start on Saturday morning with small bands of rain moving westward across the country.
Met Office chief meteorologist Matthew Lehnert said: “Repeated areas of rain are likely to affect southern Britain over the next few days, generating some localised impacts into the weekend.
“It’s a different story further north though, as high pressure brings warmer and sunnier conditions, with higher-than-average temperatures, particularly across parts of western Scotland. Eastern areas are likely to be cooler and at times, cloudier due to winds blowing off the North Sea.”
