Met Office issues weather warning as four regions braced for deluge and floods

The Met Office has issued a fresh weather warning for Monday, with Brits expected to see heavy rain.

The yellow weather warning for rain is in place from 3am tomorrow, lasting until 10am. It covers areas in southwest Scotland including Dumfries and Galloway, the Scottish Borders, East Ayrshire and South Lanarkshire.

The Met Office said "heavy showers" will become "frequent across the area overnight and into Monday morning". Up to 3cm of rain is possible across most of the area, but some areas could see as much as 5cm. Forecasters added that this level of rain would "be sufficient to bring surface water flooding to some locations for the morning rush hour".

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According to the warning, the "flooding of a few homes and businesses is possible". Bus and trains services could also be affected. Spray on the roads will make journey times longer.

The Met Office warning adds: "Check if your property could be at risk of flooding. If so, consider preparing a flood plan and an emergency flood kit.

Give yourself the best chance of avoiding delays by checking road conditions if driving, or bus and train timetables, amending your travel plans if necessary. Be prepared for weather warnings to change quickly: when a weather warning."

The Met Office had already predicted wet and windy weather to kick off autumn. In its outlook for Monday to Wednesday, the Met Office said conditions will stay "unsettled to start meteorological autumn” with showers and longer spells of rain possible.

It comes after what is expected to be confirmed as the warmest summer on record. The Met Office said this summer would “almost certainly” be the UK’s warmest on record as the mean average temperature for the season stood at 16.13C, based on data up to August 28.

Zoe Hutin, a senior meteorologist at the Met Office, said lower temperatures towards the end of August are unlikely to prevent this month setting a new record.

She said: “Given the last two and a half months of hot weather, temperatures have been sufficiently above average that the comparatively lower temperatures coming will not significantly affect the mean temperature of the meteorological summer.

“Even taking that into account the rain and cloud which is forecast, it’s still going to likely be the warmest on record.”

Four heatwaves hit the UK this summer, all of which saw temperatures climb above 30C, though none were quite as fierce as the heatwave of July 2022 when an all-time high of 40.3C was reached.

This year’s spells of intense heat were also relatively short-lived and did not persist for as long as in the scorching summer of 1976, when multiple locations across England endured heatwave-like conditions lasting more than two weeks.

Temperatures peaked above 32C on 16 days during the summer of 1976, compared with nine days in 2025.