Rain is finally coming but Met Office warns it won’t ‘solve drought overnight’

Remember when it used to rain in the UK? Us neither (Picture: Getty) The UK will see showers over the coming days, but the rain is ‘not going to solve the drought situation overnight’. Some areas in the country will have the first meaningful rain for a long time this week, the Met Office said, after a summer of heatwaves and dry weather has left many areas facing water shortages. However, they said the rainfall would not be a ‘huge amount’ and ‘highly hit and miss from place to place’, before conditions became drier again over the weekend. In an online forecast, Met Office meteorologist Aidan McGivern said Wednesday would be showery across the UK, with Northern Ireland and areas in western and central Scotland seeing ‘frequent showers with heavy downpours, hail and thunder’. The showers wo