But one YouTuber, Simple & Fast, has shared a well known trick that ‘might save your life’ if you’re driving in heavy rain.
The bizarre hack involves rubbing a cut-in-half potato across your car’s windows.
First, take a potato and cut the potato into two halves. With the inside of the potato’s spud flesh cross-section now exposed, rub the starchy innards across the windscreen almost like you’re trying to scrub it clean using the potato.
When that’s done, the windscreen will become aquaphobic, resisting water.
Using a piece of masking tape to demo the trick, she divided the windscreen in two and rubbed the potato only on the left hand side, before chucking a bowl of water over the car.
She then explained: “As you can see, the right side has drops on it while the left side has none. This is ideal for days where it rains hard and you know that the windows fog up.”
The Met Office said in its warning: "Outbreaks of rain will become persistent and heavy on Monday night into Tuesday morning, and whilst the rain may be more intermittent during Tuesday daytime some occasional heavy bursts will still be possible.
"There will naturally be some variation in rainfall totals across the area, but accumulations of 20-40 mm are likely in quite a few places, with 60-80 mm over Dartmoor and high ground in Wales. There is a small chance of 80-100 mm falling over the most exposed, prone hills. Given the saturated nature of the ground, this is likely to lead to some flooding in places and transport disruption. Rain will also be accompanied by strengthening southerly winds, which may exacerbate impacts."
