Heavy rain is being forecast as the storms are expected to hit the south west and Wales from 8pm on Wednesday May 1 through to 8am on Thursday May 2 with south east England being affected from 11pm to 6am.
To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video Up Next Thunderstorms are set to bring a sudden halt to the short sunny spell in southern parts of England and Wales, prompting the Met Office to issue two yellow weather warnings. Heavy rain is being forecast as the storms are expected to hit the south west and Wales from 8pm on Wednesday through to 8am on Thursday with south east England being affected from 11pm to 6am.
She said: ‘We have a weather front moving north, coming up across the south west, and then later in the evening we have some air pushing in from the near continent, so two discrete weather systems. ‘So some potentially heavier rain more widespread with the threat of thunderstorms and then the air from the near continent into the south east and up across London and further north again bringing the risk of thunderstorms, perhaps more isolated thunderstorms.
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