Finally some sun after month’s worth of rain flooded parts of UK

The UK will enjoy some much-needed sunshine over the next two days after torrential downpours flooded various parts of the country.

Britain was battered by relentless showers from Friday afternoon into Saturday night, with almost a month’s worth of rainfall in the space of 24 hours.

Heavy rain led to flooding on the road, delays to train services and forced officials to cancel several professional football matches.

In just 24 hours Libanus in South Wales recorded a staggering 97 millimetres rainfall, more than half the town’s monthly average.

But the outlook had improved dramatically by this morning, as Brits awoke to clear skies.

Craig Snell, a Met Office meteorologist, said: ‘The weather pattern just acted like a conveyor belt and was bringing in rain after rain after rain.

‘But thankfully it has been shunted over towards the continent now so we’re generally seeing a drier interlude.’

The Met Office has predicted dry, sunny spells for most of England and Wales over the next 48 hours in a ‘welcome respite’ from the rain.

Mr Snell said temperatures will not exceed 13C on Sunday after highs of 19C in London yesterday.

He added: ‘Today is certainly going to be a much improved day across England and Wales.

‘The weather front that was responsible for the heavy rain has moved off into the continent.

‘It will be certainly be feeling a lot fresher.

‘There’s a drop in the temperatures but the compromise is that most of us will see much in the way of blue skies and sunshine.

‘It’s generally a fairly nice day if you like sunshine.’

Some parts of Scotland and Northern Ireland can expect rainfall on Sunday.

Mr Snell said to expect colder mornings at the beginning of next week, including some patchy frost in rural areas, but with pleasant sunshine and clear skies during the day.

He predicted showers will return from Wednesday in the south west and Northern Ireland before moving across the country.

The Met Office said much of northern England and the east Midlands were struck by 25 to 60mm of rain in a 30-hour period leading into Saturday.

Yesterday Championship side Nottingham Forest announced that the club’s match against Reading was postponed after heavy rain overnight left large areas of the pitch ‘unplayable’.

A total of six matches were cancelled in the three professional football leagues below the Premiership.

Yellow weather warnings for rain were in place in most of England and Wales.

Firefighters responded to incidents of people being trapped by floodwater in Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire and Staffordshire.

Shropshire Fire and Rescue in Market Drayton tweeted they were attending calls to flooded properties and animals requiring rescue.

Railway services were also held up by flooding in Cheshire and Staffordshire.