Merseyside is part of the Met Office’s yellow weather warning
The Met Office has issued an 18-hour weather warning for rain. The weather agency is predicting spells of heavy rain on Tuesday night and Wednesday that may lead to travel disruption and flooding in places.
The weather warning is in place between 6pm today and 12pm tomorrow and includes Merseyside. The Met Office said: “Areas of heavy rain are expected to develop and push north across the warning area. Rain will develop in southwest England late afternoon, before becoming heavier and expanding north on Tuesday evening and overnight into Wednesday.
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“Many places will see around 10 to 20 mm of rain, but there is a chance some locations may see considerably more than this over a six hour period, most likely parts of southwest England and south Wales. A few places may see 50 to 80 mm of rainfall in six hours.
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“Isolated thunderstorms are also possible in the south of the warning area, with lightning an additional hazard.”
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Regions and local authorities affected
Blackburn with Darwen, Cheshire East, Cheshire West and Chester, Greater Manchester, Halton, Lancashire, Merseyside, Warrington
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Bath and North East, Somerset, Bristol, Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Gloucestershire, North Somerset, Plymouth, Somerset South, Gloucestershire, Torbay
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Blaenau Gwent, Bridgend, Caerphilly, Cardiff, Carmarthenshire, Ceredigion, Conwy, Denbighshire, Flintshire, Gwynedd, Merthyr Tydfil, Monmouthshire, Neath Port Talbot, Newport, Powys, Rhondda Cynon Taf, Swansea, Torfaen, Vale of Glamorgan, Wrexham
Herefordshire, Shropshire, Staffordshire, Stoke-on-Trent, Telford and Wrekin, West Midlands, Conurbation, Worcestershire