A YELLOW weather warning of rain remains in place for Gwent with the chance of heavy downpours causing potential flooding in localised areas.

The Met Office has issued the weather warning, which started at 1.15am this morning and will remain in place until 10pm this evening.

“Thunderstorms, with locally torrential downpours will continue to move north across England and Wales in the early hours of this morning,” states the Met Office’s weather warning.

“Although the thunderstorms will tend to ease from the south later in the night, further, possibly severe storms may break out again this afternoon, probably focused over parts of northeast Wales, central and northern England.

“Although some places will miss the thunderstorms, there is a chance of localised sudden flooding of homes, businesses and roads.

“Frequent lightning and large hail may be additional hazards, the latter bringing potential for disruption to power networks.

“This warning has been updated to keep the risk going over southern England through the early hours of this morning.”

The chief forecaster added: “Although many places are likely to miss the worst of the rain, intense downpours associated with the thunderstorms may give over 30mm in an hour locally and perhaps more than 50 mm in two or three hours.

“As is usual in this type of situation there is uncertainty in the worst affected areas.”