The warm spring sunshine of Coronation Sunday in the West Country will be just a memory as 18 hours of rain is forecast to completely washout the Bank Holiday Monday in the city.
Forecasters from the Met Office are predicting almost continuous downpours, right from dawn on Bank Holiday Monday, all the way through to midnight.
While temperatures nudged up near to 20 deg C in Bristol on a glorious Sunday - those that timed their Coronation street parties for Sunday afternoon will be glad they did - Monday looks set to be very wet indeed.
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The full forecast from the Met Office, as of Sunday evening, makes for grim reading. They predict that temperatures will dip down to 13 deg C overnight, and after a dry night, heavy rain will sweep in at 6am. The Met Office are forecasting at least two hours of heavy rain from 6am to 8am, with an 80 per cent chance of a downpour at any given moment - which is basically, continuous rain until 8am.
The rain will lessen slightly from 8am - with a 60 per cent chance of getting wet, and that's the way it pretty much stays all day, with continuous drizzle for the rest of the morning, only added to by pulses of heavy rain at around 11am, and again at around tea-time.
A Met Office spokesperson said South West would be: "Cloudy and generally wet on Monday with rain continuing to spread eastwards, locally heavy, especially first thing and late-afternoon. Rain clearing later. Cooler than Sunday under the cloud and rain. Maximum temperature 16 °C."
That's good news for people in Devon and Cornwall - they might see a bit of a dry spell in the evening, but the rain is forecast to continue in Bristol right up until midnight. There is better news on the horizon, however, Tuesday and Wednesday will be much more broken rain, with sunny spells at times.
The forecast for Gloucester is almost as grim as the one for Bristol. The early heavy rain is predicted to arrive slightly later - at around 7am, and there is forecast to be a break in the downpours in mid-afternoon, before more rain returns at 5pm or 6pm, lasting long into the evening.
The forecast for Taunton is for the rain to arrive earlier, with a couple of breaks in mid-morning, but lunchtime and early afternoon will be the wettest part of a wet day for Somerset.
And the predictions for Wiltshire's county town of Trowbridge are for heavy rain right from the off - at 7am, and only a break or two in the downpours or drizzle in late morning and late afternoon.
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