Met Office names 33 areas facing 'heavy bursts' of rain on Wednesday - full list

Met Office names 33 areas facing 'heavy bursts' of rain on Wednesday - full list Brits are set for a drenching on Wednesday before scorching heatwave conditions are predicted to return later in the week Wide swathes of Britain are set to be lashed by heavy rain on Wednesday before heatwave conditions return later in the week. A wide area of northern England, Scotland and Northern Ireland will be drenched, with weather maps showing a band of heavy rain moving across the country. The forecast for Wednesday reads: "Cloud and rain across Northern Ireland will spread eastwards into Scotland during the day, with some heavier bursts possible. Elsewhere, it will be largely dry, with variable amounts of cloud." Weather maps show 33 regions are facing the downpours tomorrow, before scorching conditions are forecast to make a return by the weekend. Met Office Chief Forecaster Neil Armstrong said: “From Tuesday and into the midweek, conditions are forecast to turn more changeable, with showers or longer spells of rain - heaviest and most frequent in the north and west. While the south and southeast stay mostly drier and often warm. Some of the showers on Tuesday will be thundery and there is potential for a thunderstorm warning to be issued.” Today will also see heavy rain for parts of the country with a yellow warning for the wet stuff issued over parts of Scotland. Some areas could see 20mm in an hour, and with the chance of 30-40mm in two to three hours in some locations. All the areas facing 4-8mm rainfall on Wednesday Northern Ireland - Antrim - Armagh - Down - Fermanagh - Londonderry - Tyrone Scotland Central, Tayside & Fife - Clackmannanshire - Falkirk - Fife - Perth and Kinross - Stirling SW Scotland, Lothian Borders - Edinburgh - Scottish Borders - West Lothian Strathclyde - Argyll and Bute - East Ayrshire - East Dunbartonshire - East Renfrewshire - Glasgow - Inverclyde - North Ayrshire - North Lanarkshire - Renfrewshire - South Ayrshire - South Lanarkshire - West Dunbartonshire England - Northumberland - Durham - Cumberland - Westmorland - Lancashire - North Yorkshire - West Yorkshire The heatwave conditions may be set to make a comeback by the end of the week with 30C predicted for some parts of the UK this weekend. Met Office Deputy Chief Forecaster Tony Wisson said: “The forecast for this weekend suggests that temperatures could approach high 20s°C across parts of England, perhaps 30°C in parts of the southeast, with values of mid to high 20s°C in Wales. “Although a return to heatwave conditions is looking increasingly likely for some areas, the likelihood of such extreme high temperatures or high levels of humidity as last week is currently low.”