A dry start to the week will make way for heavy rain by the time the weekend comes around, according to new forecasts.
Torrential downpours look set lash northern parts of the UK in the days ahead, as weather maps from WXCharts show a band of adverse weather arriving from across the Atlantic on Thursday.
This rainfall could reach levels of 10mm per hour in Northern Ireland and Scotland by the evening, with sustained but less intense precipitation expected in the south of England and Wales in the early hours of Friday.
