{"id":166609,"date":"2025-06-08T03:29:12","date_gmt":"2025-06-08T03:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/166609\/"},"modified":"2025-06-08T03:29:12","modified_gmt":"2025-06-08T03:29:12","slug":"met-office-issues-birmingham-thunderstorm-yellow-weather-warning-today-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/166609\/","title":{"rendered":"Met Office issues Birmingham thunderstorm yellow weather warning today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Forecasters said heavy showers and thunderstorms may lead to some disruption to transport and infrastructure<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/lightning2.jpg\" alt=\"Lightning\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>Lightning strike<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The Met Office has issued a yellow weather warning for thunderstorms in <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Birmingham<\/a> and across the West Midlands today, Saturday, June 7.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Forecasters said heavy showers and thunderstorms may lead to some disruption to transport and infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The warning is in place until 6pm today.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \"><strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\">READ MORE: <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/news\/midlands-news\/marcus-mead-redditch-mum-breaking-31748113\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Mum&#8217;s despair over answers from son&#8217;s police death probe &#8216;which could take years&#8217;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Despite the wet and gloomy forecast, the outlook appears much brighter next week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">In a forecast, the Met Office said: &#8220;Today (Sat): A changeable day with heavy showers likely, bringing a risk of hail and thunderstorms in places too.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;Rather cloudy through the morning but some warm sunny spells developing by the afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;Gusty winds at times. Maximum temperature 17C.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;Tonight: Showers becoming increasingly isolated this evening, although a few continuing into the early hours.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;Turning rather chilly and even cold enough for a local grass frost in prone rural spots. Minimum temperature 5C.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;Sunday: A drier day than on Saturday with all areas seeing some sunshine at times.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;Scattered showers are likely but some places will remain dry. Breezy but feeling a little warmer. Maximum temperature 17C.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;Outlook for Monday to Wednesday: Mainly dry early next week with a mixture of cloud and periods of strong sunshine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;Lighter winds than of late and turning warmer.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Met Office&#8217;s thunderstorm warning<\/p>\n<ul class=\"UnorderedList_unordered-list__gzblI\">\n<li class=\"sc-700e1ff3-0 ENBBt\">There is a good chance driving conditions will be affected by spray, standing water and\/or hail, leading to longer journey times by car and bus<\/li>\n<li class=\"sc-700e1ff3-0 ENBBt\">Probably some damage to a few buildings and structures from lightning strikes<\/li>\n<li class=\"sc-700e1ff3-0 ENBBt\">Delays to train services are possible<\/li>\n<li class=\"sc-700e1ff3-0 ENBBt\">Some short term loss of power and other services is likely<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Forecasters said heavy showers and thunderstorms may lead to some disruption to transport and infrastructureLightning strike The Met&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":92777,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,497,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-166609","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-birmingham-weather","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114645628623690715","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166609\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}