Map shows where UK will be hit by thunderstorms today

Thunderstorms are acceptable to expanse crossed the westbound of England contiguous with the Met Office issuing an urgent yellowish weather warning.

Heavy showers and thunder could origin immoderate disruption from midday contiguous until 8pm.

The forecaster warned of imaginable harm to buildings, a hazard to powerfulness proviso and hard driving conditions.

The informing spans from Cornwall to westbound London, and besides covers the southbound of Wales and Birmingham.

This marks an extremity to the lukewarm spell of upwind this week, with galore successful the state seeing highs of 23C and adjacent feeling warmer than Barcelona.

But a important driblet successful somesthesia is present expected to travel successful connected Tuesday.

Although the storms are acceptable to subside successful the evening, different thunderstorms informing has been issued for Saturday opening astatine 1am and lasting until midnight.

This informing covers the aforesaid areas but spans further northbound covering the full of Wales and reaching Liverpool.

The Met said determination is simply a accidental immoderate communities could go flooded.

Met Office Chief Meteorologist, Neil Armstrong, said: ‘Thundery downpours are expected to make successful places crossed the southbound connected Friday day bringing predominant lightning, gusty winds, hail, and spells of dense rain.

‘The hazard of thunderstorms persists into Saturday with perchance longer spells of dense rainfall for immoderate on with a continued hazard of hail and lightning accompanying the astir aggravated storms, peculiarly successful parts of the Midlands, confederate England and eastbound Wales during Saturday day and evening.

‘The warnings screen the areas of the state astir astatine hazard of seeing thunderstorms but not everyone wrong a informing country volition acquisition a thunderstorm. For galore overmuch of the clip it volition stay dry.

‘We are besides expecting these showers to merge into longer spells of dense rainfall connected Sunday and Monday crossed immoderate confederate and cardinal parts, and erstwhile the afloat details go clearer, we whitethorn good contented further terrible upwind warnings truthful support up to day with the latest forecast for your area.’

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