Forecasters have warned homes and businesses could face flooding as Britain braces for heavy rain and strong winds as temperatures fall.
Advice over worsening weather comes just a week after the warmest day in April in almost 70 years and the hottest London Marathon on recor.
The south-east of England is likely to “bear the brunt” of the bad weather, caused by an area of low pressure developing in France, which was expected to hit the UK at around 9pm on Sunday and last most of Monday.
Yellow weather warnings for rain have been issued for eastern, southeastern and central England until 11.59pm on Monday, and strong winds are also expected.
Weather experts warned this could lead to spray and flooding on roads, travel disruption – and even flooding of homes and businesses.
Met Office meteorologist Greg Dewhurst told the Independent: “The rain will start moving in this [Sunday] evening probably hitting Kent between 6-9pm becoming more heavy and persistent as the night goes on and lasting for most of Monday.
“Some very heavy rainfall is to come over the next 24 hours of about 30mm to 40mm – or even possibly 70mm locally – which could lead to localised flooding.
“To put it into perspective, East Anglia’s average rainfall for April is around 40mm so we are looking at that, but within 24 hours.
“It’s likely to lead to some disruption so for the morning commute it won’t be a nice drive at all.
“The southeast of England will bear the brunt of it and in terms of the effects at the moment there’s a chance there could be river flooding, road closures, and possibly even the risk of property flooding.”
Sunday is expected to be a fairly cloudy day across the whole of the UK, with a few scattered showers around but also some bright spells.
There will be highs of about 13C to 14C in the South and temperatures are expected to be around average for this time of year in other places.
It is expected to be a cold day on Monday in areas where there is rain, with highs of around 7C to 8C.
For those areas of the UK not affected by the bad weather it is likely to be generally dry and bright on Monday with temperatures of around 11C.
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