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Yellow warning

Heavy rain could lead to some travel disruption and possible flooding.

Impact: Low
Likelihood of impact: High

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A period of rain, heavy at times, especially over high ground, will move slowly east across this region during Wednesday. Coming off the back of recent very wet weather, some travel disruption and flooding is likely across much of the warning area.

10-20 mm of rain is likely to accumulate quite widely across the warning area, but 40-60 mm is possible over the high ground of Dartmoor and the hills of south Wales.

Rain should clear to the east during Wednesday evening and into the early hours of Thursday.

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Reason for update
Warning area reduced in the east, whilst moving from medium to low impacts in response to lower forecast rainfall accumulations.

Yellow warning

Heavy rain on Thursday may cause disruption to travel with some flooding possible in a few places.

Impact: Low
Likelihood of impact: Medium

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Further details

Following some rain on Wednesday, then a bit of a lull for most areas early Thursday morning, heavier rain is expected to return across southern counties of England from mid-morning onwards. This has potential to cause some disruption to travel, along the with the possibility of some flooding.

Widely 15-25 mm is likely across the warning area, but 40-50 mm may fall in some places, most likely over the Downs. In addition, the rain will be accompanied by strong winds, with a chance of gusts approaching 60 mph on exposed southern coasts, and 40-50mph possible inland.

Rain will clear to the east by the end of the day..

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Reason for update
Start time pushed back to 09:00. Some updates to further details, including a small chance of 60mph gusts on exposed coasts.