Yahoo News Met Office issues 16-hour amber weather warning for Stoke-on-Trent
Meteorologists have today issued the Potteries with an amber warning for rain with the conditions poised to worsen. The alert, which comes in at 5am tomorrow, brings with it a warning of heavy rain that could 'produce some flooding and travel disruption'.
It comes on the back of a torrid weekend - made up of rain and thunderstorm warnings - which has seen North Staffordshire battered by downpours. Such has been the conditions, which swept in late yesterday afternoon, that at the peak 1,700 homes were without power and scores more had problems with their water supply.
A number of roads in the Potteries and the Moorlands were also left submerged. Currently a yellow warning for rain is running across North Staffordshire until 11.59pm before a new one, taking in a large part of the country, kicks in a minute later and goes through to 11.59pm on Monday night.
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Now it's joined by an amber warning, meaning the Potteries has two alerts for rain tomorrow. The amber warning, which comes as forecasters reckon 'heavy rain' will hit, starts at 5am tomorrow (September 23) and will go to 9pm.
That alert runs from Gloucester up to Hull and takes in the Midlands along with Stoke-on-Trent and the Moorlands. A Met Office spokesperson said: "An area of heavy rain is expected to develop across central and southern England during the early of hours of Monday, edging north and west and then becoming slow-moving somewhere across the warning area for several hours.
"It will then weaken and move away eastwards later Monday evening and overnight. Not all counties within the warning area will be equally affected, but it seems likely that some areas will see 60-80 mm and a few places may receive 100-120mm or more. This is likely to result in travel disruption and some flooding."
In what has been an ever-changing forecast, the Met Office currently reckons there will be bouts of heavy rain this afternoon and for much of tomorrow. There's no dry spells on the horizon with the rain only easing up rather than completely going off.
It could run all the way through to 10pm on Monday.
