A WEATHER warning has been issued for this afternoon for Dorset.

The Met Office has issued a yellow weather warning for most of the UK, including north Dorset, for rain until 11.59pm tonight.

A spokesman for the forecasters said: “Although many areas will miss the heaviest rainfall today, some parts of the warning area are likely to see heavy, sometimes thundery and slow-moving showers, these leading to temporary surface water flooding in a few areas, together with minor disruption to travel.”

He added: “A slack area of low pressure will move slowly across southern Britain today, bringing unstable air and the potential for thundery showers. The light winds mean that the downpours will be slow-moving as well as intense in some regions, with the possibility of 15 mm or more falling in less than an hour.”