Met Office 24-hour rain warning extended to cover Essex as 'disruption' possible

Tom Burnett

22 September 2024 at 3:40 am·2-min read

The Sunday weather warning has now been extended to cover Essex — -Credit: (Image: Met Office)

A 24-hour weather warning for rain has now been extended to cover Essex on Sunday (September 22). The yellow weather warning originally covered areas to the west, but on Sunday the Met Office confirmed it now covers the county.

The warning, which is in place between midnight and 11.59pm, is separate to a warning covering the entire county on Monday (September 23). All of Essex is covered, including Chelmsford, Colchester, Southend and Basildon.

The Met Office warning states: "Areas of heavy rain will bring the potential for disruption on Sunday. Showers and thunderstorms are expected to merge into broader areas of heavy rain across parts of Wales, central and southern England during Sunday.

"Whilst the strongest signal for impactful rainfall totals appears to be centred across east Wales and west-central England, there is potential right across this highlighted region for some places to see 40-70 mm in 2-3 hours, with a chance that a few places could receive 80-100 mm through the course of the day."

Areas now covered by the weather warning:

East Midlands:

Derby

Derbyshire

Leicester

Leicestershire

Lincolnshire

Northamptonshire

Nottingham

Nottinghamshire

Rutland

East of England:

Bedford

Cambridgeshire

Central Bedfordshire

Essex

Hertfordshire

Luton

Norfolk

Peterborough

Southend-on-Sea

Suffolk

Thurrock

London & South East England:

Bracknell Forest

Brighton and Hove

Buckinghamshire

East Sussex

Greater London

Hampshire

Isle of Wight

Kent

Medway

Milton Keynes

Oxfordshire

Portsmouth

Reading

Slough

Southampton

Surrey

West Berkshire

West Sussex

Windsor and Maidenhead

Wokingham

North West England:

Cheshire East

Cheshire West and Chester

Greater Manchester

Halton

Merseyside

Warrington

South West England:

Bath and North East Somerset

Bournemouth Christchurch and Poole

Bristol

Cornwall

Devon

Dorset

Gloucestershire

Isles of Scilly

North Somerset

Plymouth

Somerset

South Gloucestershire

Swindon

Torbay

Wiltshire

Wales:

Blaenau Gwent

Bridgend

Caerphilly

Cardiff

Carmarthenshire

Ceredigion

Conwy

Denbighshire

Flintshire

Gwynedd

Merthyr Tydfil

Monmouthshire

Neath Port Talbot

Newport

Pembrokeshire

Powys

Rhondda Cynon Taf

Swansea

Torfaen

Vale of Glamorgan

Wrexham

West Midlands:

Herefordshire

Shropshire

Staffordshire

Stoke-on-Trent

Telford and Wrekin

Warwickshire

West Midlands Conurbation

Worcestershire

Yorkshire & Humber:

South Yorkshire

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Areas now covered by the weather warning:

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