UK weather: Met Office extends rain warnings as 18-hour deluge to hit Britain

UK weather: Met Office extends rain warnings as 18-hour deluge to hit Britain

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The Met Office has extended a yellow warning for rain across parts of England as an 18-hour deluge is set to batter the south.

Up to 40mm of rain could fall in the worst affected parts, with the warnings covering large swathes of the southeast and southwest.

There are two warnings in place, as rainfall in the southwest began early on Sunday morning and is expected to last until midnight.

The warning for the southeast begins at 3pm today and is in place until 9am Monday.

“Rain will move east across southwest England on Sunday morning, persisting through much of the day before slowly easing later,” the Met Office said.

“15 to 25 mm of rainfall is expected quite widely with 40-60 mm over Dartmoor and Exmoor. There is a small chance of these higher accumulations falling in some lower lying parts of Devon and Cornwall too.”

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