BRITS are set to enjoy a mild Saturday after 75mph winds and downpours clobbered much of the UK – before it all returns again on Sunday.
Saturday is set to bring clear skies and a top of 19 in some parts of the country.
Heavy rainfall and winds battered the UK on Friday – similar to scenes in Manchester last week
Yellow weather warnings for wind and rain are in place from 8am on Friday
Runners enjoys the foggy autumn morning on Wimbledon Common, south-west London
The day will start a bit frosty for people in the South East with temps of 13C before heating up by midday, according to BBC Weather.
But the wild weather will return Sunday morning around 10am to coincide with the start of the London Marathon.
Runners should expect to get hit with heavy downpours as rain clouds sweep in from the West.
It will turn drier later in the afternoon as a high pressure builds.
It comes after weather warnings were rolled out across Britain on Friday as 75mph gales and torrential rain battered the country.
Almost two inches of rain is said to have fallen in just a couple of hours alongside some of the strongest winds seen this year.
Yellow weather warnings for wind and rain – stretching across the West Coast up to the North of Scotland – were in place from 8am, according to the Met Office.
Flooding was expected with bus and train services likely to be affected in Scotland – with forecasters warning of heavy rain across the rest of UK throughout the day.
It comes as the super-strength Jet Stream in the North Atlantic is sucking extreme weather from Hurricane Ian in the US and dumping it on Britain.
Friday morning will saw fog developing in much of the South of England and North of Scotland.
There will be highs of 12C in Aberdeen, 12C in Hull, 12C in Birmingham, 14C in Liverpool, 15C in Cardiff and 16C in London.
Through the morning a vast wet and windy weather front pushed in from the Atlantic – bringing heavy rain across the whole of the western edge of Britain.
Northern Ireland has already seen heavy rainfall and gale-force winds of up to 70mph today.
And winds of 40-50mph hammered Wales and Cornwall Friday morning.
These were expected to push up the country throughout the day.
The Midlands, North of England and much of East Anglia were expected to see heavy rainfall from midday on Friday.
And through this evening and overnight, the weather will clear to the south-east leaving dry spells.
But it will continue to be breezy with scattered and blustery showers mainly in northern and western areas, the BBC reported.
Saturday morning will see mild weather for the most part and sunny spells will arrive to offer respite from the wind and rain.
The exception is patches of blustery and heavy showers in northern England and Northern Ireland while western areas of Scotland will be whacked with hail and thunder.
Saturday will see much warmer weather with highs of 18C in Norwich, 18C in Cardiff, 17C in Birmingham and 14C in Edinburgh.
A cyclist and runners enjoys the foggy autumn morning on Wimbledon Common, south-west London
Two inches of rainfall was forecast to fall across much of Britain on Friday like the drenching Newcastle-upon-Tyne last week
