Yellow thunderstorm warnings issued for several Scots areas in Met Office update
Scots may have enjoyed a searing heatwave last week, but the weather has taken a dramatic U-turn this weekend as extensive thunderstorm warnings have been issued by the Met Office. Yellow warnings for rain, thunder and lightening have been issued starting today, Saturday July 19 and lasting until Monday, July 21, when much of Scotland is to be engulfed by thundery weather.
Yellow thunderstorm warnings come with 'small' risks of danger to life, localised flooding and power cuts. We should also expect some road closures and disruption to travel, according to the Met Office.
Today's warning (July 19) is a yellow rainfall alert issued for almost the entirety of Scotland, from 12pm today until 12pm tomorrow, with very few areas of the Western Isles escaping the extreme weather. Much of England and Ireland have been issued a yellow thunderstorm warning for today, which is to spread up to Scotland by Monday.
Monday, July 21 is to see a widespread yellow thunderstorm alert that stretches all the way from the south of England to north of Inverness.
This serious warning is to last from 11am on Monday to 9pm the same day.
Several areas have been named directly by the Met Office as being affected by the coming storms, which may bring flash flooding and even damage to some buildings.
The Met Office Scotland shared a post on X that said: "Yellow warning of thunderstorm affecting Dumfries, Galloway, Lothian & Borders."
Some areas down south are even seeing a more severe amber warning for storms over the weekend.
Amber is the next step up from a yellow thunderstorm warning, before red, which is the most severe in the alert system.
Traveling or driving in amber or red warnings poses greater risks than yellow alerts.
Met Office Meteorologist Aidan McGivern said: "An amber warning for thunderstorms as an area of thundery rain continues to move north across much of England and eventually into Southern and Eastern Scotland.
"The rain focus, tending to migrate northwards through Saturday morning, pushing into northern England, southern and eastern Scotland, initially showery but then merging to give a longer spell of wet and occasionally heavy rainfall across much of northern and eastern England.
"Across eastern Scotland we've got further pulses of wet weather and a yellow warning for rain.
"Of course we need the rain at the moment in many places, but the kinds of heavy rainfall rates that some places will see over the next couple of days will not necessarily lead to much useful rain, and is more likely to lead to impacts such as travel disruption and flash flooding."
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