GET your brollies out - torrential rain is set to hit Southampton today.

The Met Office has issued a yellow warning for the city with the skies to open from around 9am and continue to pour until well into the evening.

Weather experts expect torrential downpours this afternoon with the weather turning thundery.

Traffic disruption is likely across the south and motorists are urged to take extra care on journeys.

The south east of England and East Anglia are likely to suffer the worst of the rain today, a Met Office spokesman said, as the front bringing it stalls because of a lack of wind.

A yellow warning for rain is in place across the south of England valid until 10pm and the Environment Agency has 10 flood alerts in place, five in the south west and five in Wales.

A Met Office spokesman said an area of low low pressure moving through the south of the England and would affect an area south of a line between the Wash and Cardigan Bay in Wales.