UK braces for more rain as weather warnings in place

The focus of Wednesday's wet weather will be across the northern half of England and once again for Scotland.

While a further 40-60mm of rain may fall across eastern Scotland, precipitation there will increasingly turn to snow.

Further south on Wednesday, rainfall will be more showery in nature with the chance of some brighter and drier spells developing.

For Thursday and Friday, colder and drier conditions are expected to develop from the north, slowly filtering south.

A yellow Met Office warning covering a large part of central and eastern Scotland will remain in place throughout Tuesday until 23:59 on Wednesday.

A warning covering parts of Argyll and Bute will come into effect on Wednesday at midnight, also due to expire at 23:59. Both warnings mean flooding and some transport disruption is likely.

This region has been exceptionally wet so far this February.

With 376mm of rainfall recorded, Aboyne in Aberdeenshire will soon surpass half its annual rainfall.

Further south, Worcestershire and the Isle of Wight have experienced around their February average rainfall in just the first week of the month.

This additional rainfall comes after very wet weather throughout January.

The Environment Agency (EA) estimates that 300 properties have already been flooded and around 16,000 properties have been protected by flood defences.

EA flood duty manager Andy Hitchings said: "As well as significant groundwater flooding remaining likely in parts of Dorset and Wiltshire, there are risks of significant river flooding impacts on the Somerset Levels, with minor river flooding impacts expected in parts of the East Midlands and probable in Worcestershire and Gloucestershire."