Weather warning as tropical storm Henri expected to lash West Yorkshire

Southeast England will bear the brunt of the impact of the remnants of a tropical storm this week.

Britain is at the mercy of Tropical Storm Henri which swept across the United States last week and made its journey across the Atlantic to British shores earlier this week, bringing with it large swathes of cooler air and rain.

Motorists are being warned that the weather will make driving conditions hazardous.

A weather system is classed as a tropical storm when it has one-minute sustained wind speeds of 39-72mph and 10 minutes’ sustained wind speeds of 35-63mph.

The band of rain stems from a complex area of low pressure, expected to deepen over the Bay of Biscay later today, before pushing north towards the UK.

Rain will arrive into Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire Wednesday afternoon and will move slowly northwards Wednesday night into Thursday.

Met Office meteorologists said conditions could mirror those of the 2009/2010 winter which was so long and chilly it was dubbed ‘The Big Freeze’.

“As that heavy rain eases off into the evening brighter spells will develop but there could be further heavy, thundery, if not torrential downpours”.

Lightning associated with the afternoon showers across East Anglia and South East England will be an additional hazard.

Localised flooding was possible with more than an inch of rain expected to fall in some areas.