Met Offices names 88 areas facing heavy rain Thursday as storm batters UK – full list

The Met Office has forecast a wet and cool day on Thursday, with a sheet of rain covering the UK. In its week-ahead video forecast, the weather agency predicted June 11 will be the wettest day this week, with showers and cool temperatures expected in the run-up.

A huge band of rain can be seen moving northwest across the whole of the UK in its forecast video, at times completely covering Scotland, Wales and England, with lighter showers over Northern Ireland. The Met Office predicted: "A much wetter day expected on Thursday as a weather system moves into the west. Turning heavy on western facing hills. Staying cool."

England and Northern Ireland have been forecast to peak at around 16C, with slightly cooler temperatures in Cornwall and South Wales, at 15C.

Scotland will drop to the chilliest temperatures, with 14C forecast around Aberdeenshire and 13C over northwest Scotland, reaching 15C in the south.

Before the washout on Thursday, the weather agency forecast showers and potential thunder for Tuesday, with the rain continuing into Wednesday. Temperatures will remain below average for most of the week, but all is not lost for the weekend, with a brighter forecast ahead.

It predicted the showers will begin to clear and temperatures will start to rise again, increasing to highs of 19C in the south of England, and 16C in Scotland and Northern Ireland towards the end of the week.

For Friday, the Met Office forecast: "Showers remain in the north but turning drier in the south. Staying cloudy as temperatures start to climb to end the week."

List of counties affected by rain on Thursday

England

1. Bedfordshire
2. Berkshire
3. Buckinghamshire
4. Cambridgeshire
5. Cheshire
6. Cornwall
7. Cumberland
8. Derbyshire
9. Devon
10. Dorset
11. Durham
12. Essex
13. Gloucestershire
14. Hampshire
15. Herefordshire
16. Hertfordshire
17. Huntingdonshire
18. Kent
19. Lancashire
20. Leicestershire
21. Lincolnshire
22. Middlesex
23. Norfolk
24. Northamptonshire
25. Northumberland
26. Nottinghamshire
27. Oxfordshire
28. Rutland
29. Shropshire
30. Somerset
31. Staffordshire
32. Suffolk
33. Surrey
34. Sussex
35. Warwickshire
36. Westmorland
37. Wiltshire
38. Worcestershire
39. Yorkshire

Scotland

1. Aberdeenshire
2. Angus
3. Argyllshire
4. Ayrshire
5. Banffshire
6. Berwickshire
7. Bute
8. Caithness
9. Clackmannanshire
10. Cromartyshire
11. Dumfriesshire
12. Dunbartonshire
13. East Lothian
14. Fife
15. Inverness-shire
16. Kincardineshire
17. Kinross-shire
18. Kirkcudbrightshire
19. Lanarkshire
20. Midlothian
21. Morayshire
22. Nairnshire
23. Orkney
24. Peeblesshire
25. Perthshire
26. Renfrewshire
27. Ross-shire
28. Roxburghshire
29. Selkirkshire
30. Shetland
31. Stirlingshire
32. Sutherland
33. West Lothian
34. Wigtownshire

Wales

1. Anglesey
2. Brecknockshire
3. Caernarfonshire
4. Cardiganshire
5. Carmarthenshire
6. Denbighshire
7. Flintshire
8. Glamorgan
9. Merionethshire
10. Monmouthshire
11. Montgomeryshire
12. Pembrokeshire
13. Radnorshire

Northern Ireland

1. Armagh
2. Down