Met office extends urgent weather warning as nearly all of uk to be battered

The Met Office has issued four yellow weather warnings and one more serious amber warning all across the country as Britons brace for rain and thunderstorms. The stormy weather is set to

cause travel chaos and flooding in areas across the UK - including in Scotland, Northern Ireland, and England. There is also a ‘yellow warning’ for thunderstorms too which covers London and

South East England and South West England. The warnings are in place from today, Wednesday, May 22 until tomorrow - all with different times. The amber alert is in place from 12 noon today

until 12 noon tomorrow. The warning says: “Rain will become heavy and persistent later Wednesday and Thursday with flooding and disruption likely.” It adds: “Spray and flooding probably

leading to difficult driving conditions and some road closures “Fast flowing or deep floodwater is likely, causing danger to life. “A good chance some communities will be cut off by flooded

roads. “Delays and some cancellations to train and bus services are likely. “Power cuts and loss of other services to some homes and businesses likely.” Here we list all of the regions and

areas affected. YELLOW RAIN WARNING HIGHLANDS & EILEAN SIAR Eilean Siar Highland ORKNEY & SHETLAND Orkney Islands STRATHCLYDE Argyll and Bute CENTRAL, TAYSIDE & FIFE Angus

Clackmannanshire Dundee Falkirk Fife Perth and Kinross Stirling GRAMPIAN Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Moray HIGHLANDS & EILEAN SIAR Highland SW SCOTLAND, LOTHIAN BORDERS Dumfries and Galloway

East Lothian Edinburgh Midlothian Council Scottish Borders West Lothian STRATHCLYDE Argyll and Bute East Ayrshire East Dunbartonshire East Renfrewshire Glasgow Inverclyde North Ayrshire

North Lanarkshire Renfrewshire South Ayrshire South Lanarkshire West Dunbartonshire EAST MIDLANDS Derby Derbyshire Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire Northamptonshire Nottingham

Nottinghamshire Rutland EAST OF ENGLAND Bedford Cambridgeshire Central Bedfordshire Essex Hertfordshire Luton Norfolk Peterborough LONDON & SOUTH EAST ENGLAND Buckinghamshire Milton

Keynes Oxfordshire NORTH EAST ENGLAND Darlington Durham Gateshead Hartlepool Middlesbrough Newcastle upon Tyne North Tyneside Northumberland Redcar and Cleveland South Tyneside

Stockton-on-Tees Sunderland NORTH WEST ENGLAND Blackburn with Darwen Blackpool Cheshire East Cheshire West and Chester Cumbria Greater Manchester Halton Lancashire Merseyside Warrington

SOUTH WEST ENGLAND Gloucestershire WALES Ceredigion Conwy Denbighshire Flintshire Gwynedd Isle of Anglesey Powys Wrexham WEST MIDLANDS Herefordshire Shropshire Staffordshire Stoke-on-Trent

Telford and Wrekin Warwickshire West Midlands Conurbation Worcestershire YORKSHIRE & HUMBER East Riding of Yorkshire Kingston upon Hull North East Lincolnshire North Lincolnshire North

Yorkshire South Yorkshire West Yorkshire York NORTHERN IRELAND County Antrim AMBER RAIN EAST MIDLANDS Derbyshire NORTH WEST ENGLAND Blackburn with Darwen Cheshire East Cheshire West and

Chester Greater Manchester Halton Lancashire Merseyside Warrington WALES Conwy Denbighshire Flintshire Gwynedd Wrexham YORKSHIRE & HUMBER West Yorkshire YELLOW THUNDERSTORM WARNING

LONDON & SOUTH EAST ENGLAND Brighton and Hove East Sussex Hampshire Isle of Wight Portsmouth Southampton West Sussex SOUTH WEST ENGLAND Bournemouth Christchurch and Poole Devon Dorset

Somerset Torbay