Yellow weather warning issued for heavy rain

A Yellow weather warning has been issued for heavy rain.

The met office have issued a yellow warning for heavy rain from 12:00 today to 23:59 today for the following areas:

    Darlington
    Durham
    Gateshead
    Hartlepool
    Middlesbrough
    Newcastle upon Tyne
    North Tyneside
    Northumberland
    Redcar and Cleveland
    South Tyneside
    Stockton-on-Tees
    Sunderland

Areas of rain, heavy in places, are likely to push north across the warning area, with a few places perhaps getting a longer spell of quite intense rainfall.

If and where this happens, we could see 50-80 mm of rain falling within around 6 hours, although a lot of places will probably see closer to 20 mm.

Isolated thunderstorms are possible.