Two days of thunderstorms forecast for North Wales as Met Office issues yellow warnings

The Met Office has issued yellow alerts for thunderstorms in North Wales over the next two days

A warning comes into force from 1.30pm today through to 6am on Wednesday covering all counties except for Anglesey.

A second warning comes into play at 12pm on Wednesday ending at 9pm.

The Met Office said: “Slow-moving heavy showers and thunderstorms will break out across many parts of the UK on Tuesday afternoon.

“Some places will miss them, but where they do occur they will bring torrential downpours with 25 to 35 mm rain falling in an hour and perhaps 40 to 50 mm in 2 to 3 hours in one or two places.

“Lightning and hail will be additional hazards. These showers and thunderstorms will only slowly die out through the evening, but may persist across northwest England, southwest Scotland and perhaps eastern Northern Ireland into the early hours of Wednesday morning.”

The warning for Wednesday states: “Slow-moving heavy showers and thunderstorms will break out across many parts of the UK again on Wednesday afternoon.

“Some places will miss them, but where they do occur they will bring torrential downpours with 25 to 35 mm rain falling in an hour and perhaps 50 mm in 2 to 3 hours in one or two places. Lightning and hail will be additional hazards.

“These showers and thunderstorms will only slowly die out through the evening.”

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