Yellow weather warning for heavy rain issued by Met Office

The Met Office has issued a yellow weather warning for heavy rain for parts of the Grampian area.

It will last from 9pm on Wednesday, August 3 until 6am on Thursday, August 4.

It will particularly affect the Laurencekirk area of Aberdeenshire, as well as Angus, Dundee, Perth and Kinross, and Fife.

The Met Office has outlined that there will be:

• Spray and flooding on roads probably making journey times longer

• Flooding of a few homes and businesses is possible

• Bus and train services probably affected with journey times taking longer

A spokesman said: "Showers will merge into some longer spells of rain across parts of eastern Scotland during Wednesday evening and again overnight.

"Rain is expected to turn heavy in places, with 10-20 mm possible in one hour, and very locally 40 mm in three to six hours, but not all places in the warning area will see these amounts."

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