🌧️ Stay dry, Wales! 🌧️ Heads up, a deluge is heading our way. The Met Office has issued a yellow warning for rain starting 6am on Friday, November 14, lasting into Saturday morning. With widespread downpours and possible flooding, it’s shaping up to be quite the wet day!
From early Friday, light rain will spread across much of Wales. Coastal areas like Pembroke might catch a break at first, but rain is set to quickly move in from the west. Areas like Swansea, Cardiff, Merthyr, and Monmouth will start feeling the rain from 7am onwards. By midday, the forecast shows between 4–8mm of rain soaking us from Cardiff to Aberystwyth and even further inland.
Newport looks like it’s in for the worst hit around 3pm, with heavy rain also impacting Ystradgynlais, Hay-on-Wye, and Hereford. As we head into the late afternoon, intense downpours are expected west of Abergavenny but might ease slightly later at night. By evening, places like Swansea, Carmarthen, and Cardigan could see a brief dry spell, but light rain will continue over others like Newtown and Wrexham.
Come Saturday morning, things are expected to clear up a bit, but the ground will be saturated, and rivers could be swollen. Alun Attwood from Natural Resources Wales cautions that this could lead to local flooding. Keep an eye on forecasts, and take any flood alerts seriously!
Safety first: avoid swollen riverbanks, and never walk or drive through floodwaters. We all know the lure of the rain, but it’s better safe than sorry. Let’s brace ourselves, be prepared, and stay dry this weekend, Wales! 🌧️💧