The Met Office has issued yellow weather warning for heavy rain on Thursday across parts of Cumbria and other parts of the UK, along with melting snow warnings of localised hazardous driving conditions and flooding have also been issued.
Heavy rain is forecast across the UK with yellow weather warning issued for the Furness area and Dumfries and Galloway along with heavy rain across the region.
The heaviest of the rain is expected across Penrith between 14:30 and 18:00 on Thursday.
Areas of low pressure will bring very wet and windy conditions to the UK, displacing the cold weather that has bought frequent frosts, snow and ice to some regions. The highest rain totals will be focused in western parts of the UK over the next few days, falling on already very wet ground.
Met Office Chief Forecaster, Neil Armstrong, said: “After a relatively calm day on Wednesday, wet and windy weather will move in from the west on Wednesday night. Low pressure will drive several days of unsettled conditions with heavy rainfall the main concern.
“We have issued a number of severe weather warnings for rain across the UK, as much as 80mm of rain could fall in some areas of the west, particularly higher ground. Higher ground in eastern Scotland could even see up to 100mm of rain.”
The Met Office has said that weather warnings are likely to be updated throughout the next few hours.
A second low pressure will reinforce the heavy rain through Thursday and bring further weather fronts across the UK during Friday and Saturday morning.
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