Thunderstorms, hail and torrential rain set to hit UK despite warm weather
Heavy downpours and lightning strikes may cause disruption across the country, with transport delays, power cuts and even flash floodingall on the cards.
Durham, Middlesbrough and Yorkshire could see up to 25mm of rain in less than an hour.
Meanwhile in the south, rain is predicted to be torrential, with up to 30mm falling in less than an hour, and 90mm in less than three hours in certain places.
The wet weather is expected to continue all weekend, with widespread showers forecast on Sunday.
But temperatures are expected to remain high, with parts of central and southern England reaching 30C. The south east will see some sunnier spells as well.
Wales, Cornwall, Merseyside, Devon, Somerset, Dorset and the Scottish border are forecast to avoid the worst of the stormy weather.
Alex Burkill, a meteorologist at the Met Office, warned that the high temperatures could become 'quite uncomfortable' in some parts of the country.
He said: 'In the south and east, there is further chance of staying dry and some decent sunshine on offer.
'So there's a lot of heat around, high humidity as well, quite uncomfortable for some of us. More Trending
'As we go into the weekend, with the heat and the humidity, there's a fairly strong chance that we are going to see some heavy, thundery rain, feeding up from the south.
'That is likely to become pretty widespread across much of the country as we go through Saturday and into Sunday.'
The wet weather comes just in time as regions across the UK declare drought and enter into hosepipe bans.
So far, South East Water and Yorkshire Water hosepipe bans are in effect, while Thames Water and Southern Water's bans will begin next week.
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