Met Office extends North Wales weather warning - and it will impact more areas for longer

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A weather warning for torrential rain has been extended to cover more parts of North Wales for longer.

The Met Office has widened the scope of its yellow warning as people are warned that flooding to homes, businesses and roads could occur as up to 100mm of rain falls.

Earlier this week, a warning was put into place from 6pm on Wednesday until 3pm on Thursday, but that has now been extended and comes into force at 3pm today.

The warning ends at the slightly earlier time of 2pm on Thursday.

The area set to be impacted has also been slightly extended, and now includes more communities in Gwynedd.

It adds to the warning already in place for much of Gwynedd, Conwy and Denbighshire, as well as a small part of Wrexham.

Flintshire and Anglesey are currently free of any weather warning.

The Met Office said: "An Atlantic weather system arriving on Wednesday is expected to bring a further spell of rainfall which is likely to become particularly prolonged over areas of high ground.

"Whilst there is more uncertainty over the rainfall totals for South Wales, there is a small chance that 50-60mm could fall here in 24 hours.

"There is higher confidence in the rainfall for north-west Wales, with between 70 and 100mm of rain most likely.

"Given already saturated ground, in south Wales in particular, there is a chance of further flooding during this event."

As of 11.30am on Wednesday, Natural Resources Wales had just one flood warning in place, for the Lower Dee Valley from Llangollen to Trevalyn Meadows.

No flood alerts were in place.

More warnings are expected to come into force in the region as heavy rain hammers North Wales into the evening and overnight.