{"id":183854,"date":"2025-06-14T13:31:11","date_gmt":"2025-06-14T13:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/183854\/"},"modified":"2025-06-14T13:31:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-14T13:31:11","slug":"thunderstorm-weather-warning-lifted-for-the-west-midlands-and-shropshire-but-rain-could-still-be-on-the-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/183854\/","title":{"rendered":"Thunderstorm weather warning lifted for the West Midlands and Shropshire &#8211; but rain could still be on the way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.metoffice.gov.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Met Office<\/a> had issued a yellow warning for heavy rain and thunderstorms which covered parts of the region including the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.expressandstar.com\/news\/local-hubs\/dudley\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Black Country<\/a> and Shropshire from midnight on Friday to 6pm on Saturday (June 14).<\/p>\n<p>The weather warning has since been lifted for the West Midlands and is now in place in the north, stretching from Bradford in Yorkshire up to the northeast of Scotland.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Though the region may have escaped thunderstorms this weekend, it may be wise to keep your umbrellas on hand as there could still be some rain.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/a8289b4c-a827-4c5b-acd8-f93613daa37a.jpg\"   alt=\"A yellow weather warning for rain has been issued affecting the Black Country\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"w-full max-w-none\"\/>There could be some rainfall in the West Midlands today<\/p>\n<p>According to the Met Office&#8217;s weather map, rain could fall across the Black Country and parts of Shropshire including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shropshirestar.com\/news\/local-hubs\/shrewsbury\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Shrewsbury<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shropshirestar.com\/news\/local-hubs\/telford\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Telford<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shropshirestar.com\/news\/local-hubs\/bridgnorth\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bridgnorth<\/a> on Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Weather experts have however predicted there will be a brighter start to Sunday in the West Midlands with &#8220;plenty of sunshine&#8221; &#8211; though there could be some showers in the afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Temperatures are expected to be in the low 20s throughout the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>In its weather forecast for Monday to Wednesday next week, the Met Office said: &#8220;A generally drier and more settled period with plenty of sunny spells, and light patchy rain, mainly confined to the hills.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Winds becoming light with temperatures closer to average.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Met Office had issued a yellow warning for heavy rain and thunderstorms which covered parts of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":183855,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,393,728,4884,379,12,16,15,4349],"class_list":{"0":"post-183854","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-environment","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-local-hubs","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom","17":"tag-wolverhampton"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114681969688333315","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183854","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=183854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183854\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}