Time to dive back under the duvet as thunderstorms leave Britain soaking
LIGHTNING lit up the skies over Britain as thunderstorms struck the country yesterday.
Videos of the intense storms were widely shared on X, after people were awoken by booming thunder.
“Wakes up to London thunderstorms. Sticks phone out of the window to film,” one X user posted. “Slams window shut and hides under the duvet for the rest of the night …. Would not advise.”
Up to 100mm of rain was expected in some areas last night with the Met Office issuing a yellow weather warning covering almost the whole of southern and central England up to South Yorkshire and all southern Welsh counties.
It comes after three consecutive days of heavy rain, starting on Thursday, lashed southern England and Wales.
Dan Harris, Met Office deputy chief meteorologist, said the wild weather was making it harder to forecast. “This is due to a more complex than usual meteorological pattern involving multiple corridors of heavy, locally, thundery rain revolving around a slow-moving area of lower pressure,” he said.
Today, some sunshine is likely to develop in the south east, but this will be offset by further slow-moving thunderstorms.
Lengthy sunny and dry spells are still expected further north in a continuation of recent days, but conditions will be turning cloudier and more mild.
The showers will continue to move in a northwesterly direction while spells of heavy rain will affect many central and southern areas. Cooler, fresher temperatures are widely expected across the country into next week with a generally unsettled outlook.
‘Wakes up to storms. Slams window shut and hides under the duvet for the rest of the night’