Exactly where thunderstorms will strike as UK weather warnings issued

Yellow thunderstorm warnings are successful spot crossed overmuch of the UK contiguous with galore Brits already experiencing thumping hail, overflowing drains and rising h2o levels

Vast swathes of the UK will brace for dense ablution and thunderstorms today with yellowish upwind warnings issues crossed overmuch of the country.

Thunderstorms are acceptable to formed a gloomy representation for Brits successful Wales, the South West of England and the Midlands contiguous with rainfall acceptable to batter the regions for overmuch of the day. The Met Office issued a yellowish thunderstorm warning astatine 1am contiguous and it is progressive until midnight.

As overmuch arsenic 70mm of rainfall has been predicted to autumn crossed affected regions contiguous with 80mm acceptable to autumn tomorrow, according to the Met Office.

Brits person already been battered by heavy hail with images of rising h2o levels and drains overflowing being shared crossed societal media. Residents successful Bishop Cleeve Gloucestershire were among those worst affected with clips showing hailstones hammering down extracurricular a location successful the village.

But portion galore radical mightiness acquisition thunderstorms, determination is simply a much varied representation emerging crossed the remainder of the UK. It volition beryllium adust successful the northbound with sunny spells successful the northwest.

"Not everyplace volition spot a thunderstorm, it's the hit-and-miss quality of thunderstorms," said Met Office meteorologist Amy Bokota. "One spot could spot torrential downpours, hail, gusty winds, and conscionable down the road, it could beryllium a good and sunny day."

She aboriginal continued: "We commencement to get a 2nd strategy rising from the southbound arsenic we caput into towards the aboriginal hours of Sunday. There is simply a informing successful unit for this country of rainfall arsenic well. There is simply a informing successful unit for this country of rainfall arsenic well.

"This is 1 is somewhat antithetic from the 1 of Saturday. This is simply a rainfall informing arsenic opposed to a thunderstorm and we'll beryllium seeing much wide unreality and much places volition spot rainfall arsenic well."

The yellowish rainfall informing volition beryllium successful spot successful the regions antecedently affected by thunderstorms from midnight connected Sunday and volition proceed into midnight connected Monday. A 2nd yellowish rainfall informing shifts eastward with overmuch of Yorkshire, East Anglia and overmuch of England with objection of the South West, the North West, Cumbria and the North East.

Temperatures contiguous volition beryllium varied crossed the UK with highs of 23C being recorded successful London and the mercury tipping implicit 20C successful the South East, East Anglia, Yorkshire and the North West. A akin representation volition beryllium look implicit the people of Sunday with temperatures hovering successful the precocious teens successful overmuch of Scotland and Northern Ireland.

The Met Office's study for Sunday said: "Heavy outbreaks of rainfall moving northwards done the greeting crossed confederate England and overmuch of Wales, turning thundery astatine times. Drier successful the northbound with sunnier spells successful the west."