With British temperatures recently rivalling the Mediterranean, it may have seemed that summer had firmly arrived.

But June is now odds on to be the wettest on record, with yellow weather warnings issued for the coming week and the country set to be deluged by heavy rain.

England is expected to see four days of rain, as forecasters at the Met Office warn of potential floods across the south east.

Meteorologists claimed that 20 hours of continual downpours could be seen on Monday.

Simon Partridge, of the Met Office, said: "There's potential for floods anywhere east from Oxfordshire, extending down to the coast.