BREAKING: Moment thunderstorm brings hailstone horror as UK weather turns wild

Residents successful Bishop's Cleeve, Gloucestershire, were struck by dense hailstorms connected Friday arsenic the Met Office issued yellowish warnings for storms crossed the UK

This is the infinitesimal Brits successful a portion of the UK were struck by heavy hail which brought question chaos connected a time of tempest warnings crossed the country.

Residents successful Bishop's Cleeve successful Gloucestershire were deed by dense hail storms connected Friday which sent h2o levels rising and drains overflowing. Oskar Brennan shared images online of the interaction of the storm.

Clips amusement hailstones similar grit hammering down extracurricular a location successful the colony arsenic thunder rumbles overhead. Another representation shows a thoroughfare looking arsenic though it had been deed by snowfall aft 2 inches of hailstones settled connected the road, with a drain overflowing.

"What an insane #thunderstorm that was!" Oskar said, posting connected X. "Just extracurricular Bishop's Cleeve, #Gloucestershire. #Flooding, drains overflowing, heavy hail connected the roads. Scary to spot h2o rising against the partition of the house."

The freak weather followed days of lukewarm 24C upwind with areas crossed the state struck by thunder, lightning and adjacent tornadoes connected Friday. Storms struck crossed the South, portion Aldershot successful Hampshire was hit by a tornado which damaged homes and uprooted trees.

Storm warnings proceed passim this weekend, with the Met Office saying up to 70mm of rainfall could autumn successful the abstraction of a fewer hours connected Saturday, with a further 80mm projected for Sunday. Another forecaster, Ventusky, has shared an alarming representation of wherever it believes the storms volition beryllium astatine their strongest.

A bluish spot signalling storms shrouds each of Wales, and astir of England, arsenic acold southbound arsenic Cornwall to Cumbria successful the North. The greenish and yellowish hues denote the strongest of the tempests, and these are feared crossed South Wales, Somerset, and Wiltshire.

A Met Office spokesperson said: "Showers and thunderstorms are expected to merge into broader areas of dense rainfall crossed parts of Wales, cardinal and confederate England during Sunday. Whilst the strongest awesome for impactful rainfall totals appears to beryllium centred crossed eastbound Wales and west-central England, determination is imaginable close crossed this highlighted portion for immoderate areas to spot 30-50 mm successful little than 6 hours, with a fewer places receiving 60-80mm implicit the people of 12-24 hours."