The Met Office has issued a 22-hour yellow weather warning for rain covering most of Kent as heavy downpours are expected to batter the nation at the start of next week. Coming into effect from 8am on Monday (December 1), the warning will remain in place throughout the remainder of the day and overnight until 6am on Tuesday (December 2).

Blanketing nearly the entire county, the warning area encompasses all of Maidstone , Ashford , Thanet , Canterbury , Tunbridge Wells, Folkestone , Dover and Swale, ending on the border of Medway and Gravesend . Forecasters have advised that between 20mm and 30mm of rain will fall over the warning area, perhaps reaching between 50mm and 60mm where showers are at their heaviest, namely over the North and South Downs.

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