{"id":747877,"date":"2026-08-24T05:24:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T05:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/747877\/"},"modified":"2026-08-24T05:24:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T05:24:12","slug":"uk-weather-rain-to-return-this-week-with-risk-for-thunderstorms-and-flooding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/747877\/","title":{"rendered":"UK weather: Rain to return this week with risk for thunderstorms and flooding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">While drier conditions will continue into Monday for most places, Tuesday will see low pressure arriving from the south-west. This will bring showery conditions for parts of southern England and south Wales.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">By Wednesday, downpours will become more widespread across England, Wales and Northern Ireland, while Scotland is likely to remain mostly dry.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There could be some heavy and thundery bursts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">From later on Wednesday until Friday, the threat of torrential downpours with hail and thunderstorms will increase. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The areas most at risk are southern England and Wales, where heavy rain falling on dry and hard ground may bring the risk of localised flooding. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While drier conditions will continue into Monday for most places, Tuesday will see low pressure arriving from the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":747878,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-747877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=747877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747877\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/747878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=747877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=747877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=747877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}