Plymouth saw a sunny start to Bank Holiday Monday, and the good news that dry weather and sunny spells are expected to continue through the week.
Shoppers and tourists enjoyed temperatures hovering around the 21°C mark on Monday, with cloud cover expected to build through the afternoon. But according to the Met Office, clear skies should emerge by Monday evening.
The Met Office has issued a severe weather warning for the South West today with localised thunderstorms and torrential downpours possible (Friday 7 June).
A 'yellow warning' of rain has been issued and the Met Office say: "The public should be aware of the risk of some disruption to transport through standing water.
"There is a risk of an isolated thunderstorm developing today...
The Environment Agency has issued a number of flood alerts for Cornwall and West Devon, including the Plymouth area, as the heavy rain continues across the region this afternon and into the early hours of tomorrow morning (Wednesday 15 May).
Between 20 and 40mm of rain is expected and higher localised rainfall could cause some river flooding risks...
The first teams began crossing the finishing line in this year's Ten Tors challenge on Sunday morning (12 May) with the last arriving some three quarters of an hour beyond the usual finish time of 5pm.
The first to finish was a team from Queen Elizabeth's Hospital School in Bristol at appoximately 9.40am.
Weather conditions with rain and restricted visibility prevailing, were...
Blizzard Nemo has hit the North East Coast of The U.S. burying the roads in over thirty inches of snow in some places.
The first casualty of the severe weather conditions, a 74-year-old man, has died in Poughkeepsie, New York. He was hit by an 18-year-old driver, who lost control of his vehicle due to snow and hit the pedestrian who was walking on the side of the road...
The UK will become one of a small number of countries to forecast the weather in space.
A £4.6M investment in this innovative system by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) will help protect the technologies our day-to-day lives rely on.
Severe solar flares, space storms and solar wind can disrupt satellites, GPS, power grids and radio communications....
Taking into account the range of uncertainty in the forecast and observations, the Met Office are predicting that it is very likely that 2013 will be one of the top ten warmest years on record, which goes back to 1850, and it is predicted to be warmer than 2012.
The forecast follows provisional figures for the observed temperature in 2012, published by the Met Office and University of...
