16 flood alerts and 29 flood warnings in Wales as Met Office weather warning remains in place

Heavy rain fell across Wales on Wednesday leading to cars being caught in flooding and hospital sites being impacted

There are 29 flood warnings and 16 flood alerts in place after Wales was hit by torrential rain on Wednesday. A Met Office weather warning that was in place for most of Wednesday as the country was battered by heavy rain.

Roads were flooded, hospital bosses in Cardiff warned that "areas across our hospital sites have been impacted by flooding" and cars were trapped in floodwater in parts of the Vale of Glamorgan. Rail lines between Shrewsbury and Wrexham were closed because of flooding.

The forecast for Thursday is for it to be "largely dry" with sunny spells, but there are still some roads and rail lines affected by flooding, and Natural Resources Wales has the flood warnings in place.

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Flooding has closed the A490 in both directions in Powys between the Sarn Bryn Caled roundabout at Coed-y-dinas and The Square ad Compass Pub at Cilcewydd.

There are also cancellations on Transport for Wales between between Wrexham General and Bidston and between Hereford and Shrewsbury due to flooding.

The flood warnings and alerts that are in place in Wales:

There is set to be a lull in the weather on Thursday before returning to more unsettled for the weekend. The Met Office forecast for Thursday in Wales says: "Early morning mist and fog lifting, giving occasional sunny spells, though light showers soon developing in the southwest and spreading inland through the afternoon. Winds remaining light. Maximum temperature 17 °C.

"Showers easing this evening to leave a dry night with plenty of clear spells allowing for some mist and fog patches to develop. Feeling cooler. Minimum temperature 7 °C."

Looking to the weekend, Met Office deputy chief meteorologist, Dan Holley, says: “A low pressure system could bring strong winds to the north and west on Friday. This combined with high spring tides may result in some coastal impacts, potentially continuing into the weekend on some coasts. Warnings for Friday and later in the weekend have already been issued and will continue to be refined and reviewed in the coming days.

“As we head into the weekend the weather will remain unsettled with further rain at times, and by Sunday, there is a chance that a particularly deep area of low pressure arriving from the Atlantic could bring more widespread strong winds, especially in northern and western areas, with potential for some disruption in places.

“This low-pressure system is not expected to develop until Friday near the coast of Canada, so at this stage there is still a lot of uncertainty about the strength and track of this system as it interacts with the jet stream over the weekend. It’s likely that Sunday’s wind warning will be updated and refined as confidence increases, so stay up to date with the latest forecast.”