This on top of the fact that it has already been the wettest first five months of a year on record.
Met Office says some areas could see 2cm to 3cm of rain in an hour – almost half of the UK monthly average for the whole of June of 7.3cm.
2-3cm of rain per HOUR!
The Environment Agency has issued “low risk” flood alerts for most of the UK.
Met Office spokesman Dan Williams said “We are looking at the potential for some localised flooding because the downpours are potentially heavy enough that we could see so much rain fall in a short space of time that it can’t drain away fast enough.”
The Environment Agency said: “Heavy rain with isolated torrential downpours may bring some river and surface water flooding on Saturday across all of England, except for Devon and Cornwall, and all of Wales, except for Pembrokeshire.”
Already the wettest first five months of a year on record
Dr Roger Brugge, a meteorologist at Reading University, said a total of 18in (462mm) fell between January and May – around 1in (25mm) more than in any other first five months of a year since records began in 1908.
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/jun/06/flood-alerts-most-of-uk-saturday
See also:
Tornadoes rip through BRITAIN as freak weather starts to smash into UK … the country faces a weekend of weather HELL.
Thanks to Dean Koehler and Stephanie Relfe for these links