{"id":406551,"date":"2025-09-08T00:50:19","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T00:50:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/406551\/"},"modified":"2025-09-08T00:50:19","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T00:50:19","slug":"met-office-issues-second-yellow-weather-warning-for-birmingham-and-west-midlands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/406551\/","title":{"rendered":"Met Office issues second yellow weather warning for Birmingham and West Midlands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Birmingham, Wolverhampton, Dudley, Walsall, and West Bromwich are all affected by the weather warning<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/0_Summer-weather-Aug-4th-2025.jpg\" alt=\"A man embraces a rain shower in Birmingham\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>Birmingham, Wolverhampton, Dudley, Walsall, and West Bromwich are all affected by the weather warning(Image: PA)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">The Met Office has updated its yellow weather warning, with <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Birmingham<\/a> now caught under the alert area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">This morning, the West Midlands, Wales, southwest England and central southern England had all been issued a yellow weather alert by the authority, but this second warning has expanded the locations impacted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Posting an update on social media, the Met Office confirmed the new yellow alert was in place from 12pm until 4pm today (Sunday, September 7).<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\"><strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\">Read more: <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/news\/cost-of-living\/cost-living-payments-confirmed-six-32403752\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Cost of living payments confirmed for six million households from October<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">They wrote: &#8220;Yellow weather warning issued.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">&#8220;Thunderstorms across parts of the West Midlands, Wales, southwest England and central southern England.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Full list of areas issued a yellow weather warning<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\"><strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\">West Midlands<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul class=\"UnorderedList_unordered-list__gzblI\" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"unordered-list\">\n<li class=\"sc-700e1ff3-0 VljCu\">Herefordshire<\/li>\n<li class=\"sc-700e1ff3-0 VljCu\">Shropshire<\/li>\n<li class=\"sc-700e1ff3-0 VljCu\">Staffordshire<\/li>\n<li class=\"sc-700e1ff3-0 VljCu\">Telford and Wrekin<\/li>\n<li class=\"sc-700e1ff3-0 VljCu\">Warwickshire<\/li>\n<li class=\"sc-700e1ff3-0 VljCu\">West Midlands Conurbation (Birmingham, Wolverhampton, Dudley, Walsall, West Bromwich)<\/li>\n<li class=\"sc-700e1ff3-0 VljCu\">Worcestershire<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\"><strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\">Wales<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\"><strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\">South West England<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul class=\"UnorderedList_unordered-list__gzblI\" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"unordered-list\">\n<li class=\"sc-700e1ff3-0 VljCu\">Bath and North East Somerset<\/li>\n<li class=\"sc-700e1ff3-0 VljCu\">Bristol<\/li>\n<li class=\"sc-700e1ff3-0 VljCu\">Dorset<\/li>\n<li class=\"sc-700e1ff3-0 VljCu\">Gloucestershire<\/li>\n<li class=\"sc-700e1ff3-0 VljCu\">North Somerset<\/li>\n<li class=\"sc-700e1ff3-0 VljCu\">Somerset<\/li>\n<li class=\"sc-700e1ff3-0 VljCu\">South Gloucestershire<\/li>\n<li class=\"sc-700e1ff3-0 VljCu\">Swindon<\/li>\n<li class=\"sc-700e1ff3-0 VljCu\">Wiltshire<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\"><strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\">London &amp; South East England<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">On the Met Office website, the authority provides further detail over what local residents can expect today, writing: &#8220;A band of heavy rain and thunderstorms will move north across the area giving one to hours of intense rain before clearing northwards.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">&#8220;Some places could receive 30-40mm of rain in this time, along with a risk of frequent lightning and hail.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">They warn: &#8220;Spray and sudden flooding could lead to difficult driving conditions and some road closures,&#8221; and that there &#8220;is a slight chance that power cuts could occur and other services to some homes and businesses could be lost.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Birmingham, Wolverhampton, Dudley, Walsall, and West Bromwich are all affected by the weather warningBirmingham, Wolverhampton, Dudley, Walsall, and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":406552,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,497,748,393,4884,16321,16,1190,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-406551","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-midlands-weather","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-uk-weather","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115165935996971246","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406551","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=406551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406551\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/406552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}