UK weather live: Met Office warning as over a month’s rain to fall in two days on southern Britain

More than half a month’s rain has fallen across two days in southern England and Wales up to Friday night.

A Met Office yellow weather warning was in place for the second day running as wet weather continued due to large patches of rain crossing the channel from France , but had subsided by Saturday morning.

There were warnings for flooding , power cuts and travel disruption with outbreaks of heavy rain “persistent” in some areas and “particularly heavy” in others.

For the weekend, for many, it will be a bright and dry start on Saturday morning with small bands of rain moving westward across the country.

Met Office chief meteorologist Matthew Lehnert said: “Repeated areas of rain are likely to affect southern Britain over the next few days, generating some localised impacts into the weekend.

“It’s a different story further north though, as high pressure brings warmer and sunnier conditions, with higher-than-average temperatures, particularly across parts of western Scotland. Eastern areas are likely to be cooler and at times, cloudier due to winds blowing off the North Sea.”