Met Office maps show downpours to lash across UK on Saturday - see full list of worst-hit areas

Met Office maps show downpours to lash across UK on Saturday - see full list of worst-hit areas Met Office maps show rain over the Midlands, northern England and parts of Wales on Saturday 3 October, with lighter patches in parts of Scotland and Northern Ireland These striking weather maps show Brits should prepare for a wet weekend. Forecasters at the Met Office understand a band of low pressure is to sweep in from the west and make landfall on Saturday. Parts of the Midlands and the Northwest of England are likely to see the heaviest of the rain, meteorologists say. Temperatures have been balmy of late, with 28.1C recorded at Kew Gardens, southwest London, on Tuesday. The mercury is poised to drop, though, as the low pressure moves eastwards in the coming days. With it, showers will fall and concern has already been raised already about flooding. The current Met Office forecast reads: "Showers affect northern and western areas at times, staying drier further south. Windy, especially in the north and west. Temperatures [will be] near average further north and above average in the south." Parts of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland will see showers on Saturday and Sunday too, forecasters believe. The Met Office's latest charts show rain pushing in from the Atlantic, striking Ireland first before making its way across the UK. While some isolated patches of rain are expected over the UK on Friday, Saturday is when conditions become far more widespread. Up to 8mm of rain is expected in some areas, such as Lancashire and Cumbria, on Saturday afternoon. As yet though, the Environment Agency says there are no flood alerts or warnings in place. It follows a dry few days. Large swathes of the UK saw little to no rainfall on Monday and Tuesday, with the most significant showers coming over the Isles of Scilly on Tuesday. As the the Express reports, the next band of rainfall may come as a welcome relief following a sweltering summer that brought droughts and parched lawns. But, after the weekend, the picture is poised to change again. Monday looks dry for many regions, though temperatures are unlikely to exceed 15C, which is typical for this time of year. A north-south divide appears to emerge on weather maps from Tuesday - with rain northern parts and drier weather across southern counties. Areas facing heaviest rain on Saturday England - Staffordshire - Derbyshire - Nottinghamshire - Lincolnshire - Cheshire - Merseyside - Greater Manchester - South Yorkshire - East Riding of Yorkshire - North Yorkshire - County Durham - Cumbria - Tyne & Wear Wales - Isle of Anglesey - Gwynedd - Conway - Denbigshire - Flintshire - Wrexham - Ceredigion