Weather warning for this afternoon

More Scattered heavy showers and thunderstorms are likely to develop north of Exeter later from noon today, forecasters say.

The Met Office has issued a yellow weather warning due to the risk of surface water flooding caused by the showers but have cautioned that th location of the showers is still uncertain.

Due to the uncertainty in the likely distribution of showers, Met Office  forecasters are advising the public to monitor the website for possible updates.

A chief forecaster at the Met Office said:”A slack area of low pressure will move eastwards across southern Britain on Thursday.

“ The airmass will be moist and unstable, and as daytime heating gets going, heavy showers and thunderstorms are likely to break out. The exact distribution of these remains uncertain.

“They could become aligned into slow-moving bands giving some places 10-15 mm of rain in less than and hour and perhaps 30-40 mm in 3 hours in the worst affected spots.

“However as is usual in such situations, some places will miss the worst of the rain.”