UK weather: Thunderstorm threat continues
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Weather forecast forthunderstorms for the next few days in the UK It's a gloomy weather forecast} It's replaced high temperatures and blue skies. While not usually celebrated, millions of people will welcome the country's first steady rainfall in months. For those who haven't yet experienced a sudden leak, you can rest assured that it will likely rain over the next few days, although some places will experience more rain than others.
When will it rain near me?
Weather charts from WXCharts forecasters show recent showers are part of the trend in the UK.
The site's rain radar, which uses data from MetDesk, detected a system entering the country this week.
Each star system arrives from the west via the Atlantic Ocean, but settles in a different region.
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According to the rainfall charts, the heaviest rainfall for today 17 August will be in the south and southwest of England. It will rain around the coast.
The area is already within two weather agency warnings, but the WXCharts map shows where the rain will be most intense.
By 3pm, the South Downs of Sussex will receive torrential rains of up to 10mm per hour, drenching residents of Chichester, Worthing and Portsmouth.
Nearby cities such as Portsmouth, Bournemouth and Poole will receive an average of 2mm to 3mm of rain per hour.
Rain Falling Thursday 18 August will clear 2mm to 7mm per hour southwest around Enniskillen by 9am, via Northern Ireland.
The system should have landed on mainland Britain by 3:00 pm, with steady rains of up to 1 mm per hour on the west coasts of England, Scotland and Wales.
Liverpool, Blackpool, Lake District National Park and Glasgow saw maximum rain in the range of 3mm to 5mm between 3pm and 6pm before the system moved to Manchester and Newcastle. expected.
According to WXCharts, much of the country should remain dry on Friday, but the weekend will more than make up for lost time.
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Rain will pass through Northern Ireland on Saturday morning with showers around Omagh and Billycastle at 6am.
Scotland, again mainly Glasgow, will see the heaviest rain as Saturday's system circles the highlands north of the city.
Between 5mm and 8mm of rain should fall over the area in the early morning before similar rainfall hits the south coast of Galloway Forest Park.
Rain does not reach England, falling on Liverpool and its southernmost west coast at about 1 mm per hour, with the heaviest in Northumberland where total rainfall can reach 4 mm. increase.
By Sunday, conditions for southerners will change rapidly as August 21 absorbs most of the rain.
The final system of the weekend avoids Ireland and lands first in Wales at 0.2 mm per hour.
Precipitation increases gradually towards 2 to 3mm per hour around the Cardiff and Pembrokeshire coasts, with Cornwall he in Dorset and particularly Plymouth in similar amounts.
Around 3:00 pm, rain in Cardiff increased to between 5 and 7 mm per hour, while the rest of the south coast, including Brighton, Southampton, Isle of Wight, Bournemouth and London, was hit by 9:00 pm. Similar totals can be seen by
