'Mini tornado' hits flood-ravaged town sending trampoline soaring through sky

By Conor Wilson, News Reporter

The trampoline was captured flying done the aerial arsenic the southbound was battered by a storm. (Image: X:Ilford South/Getty)

Extraordinary footage connected societal media has shown a trampoline flying done the aerial successful Luton, arsenic a “mini-tornado” deed the country yesterday.

The weather, caused by a megastorm which drenched overmuch of Britain overnight, caused the Met Office to contented amber and yellowish warnings to alert radical to the hazard of flooding and the anticipation of hard driving conditions.

Footage shared by Ilford South connected X showed what appears to beryllium a trampoline and different pieces of debris flying done the entity arsenic upwind and rainfall batter the municipality of Dunstable.

The trampoline seemingly did travel to a stop, with a pistillate penning connected Facebook to accidental it had landed successful her garden.

She said: “Hi, has anyone mislaid a trampoline today?”

When idiosyncratic commented asking if it had landed successful her garden, the woman replied: “Yes presently stuck connected the swing'”.

Dunstable, similar overmuch of the country, was battered by upwind and rainfall past night, with up to 120mm, a month’s worthy of rain, expected to autumn successful the southwest connected Monday.

The Met Office warned: “An country of dense rainfall is expected to impact cardinal and confederate England during Monday, becoming slow-moving determination crossed the informing country for respective hours.

“It volition past weaken and determination distant eastwards aboriginal Monday evening and overnight.”

It added that question disruption was apt and that lightning could beryllium an further hazard successful immoderate places.

The Met Office warns that radical should “prepare to debar travelling by roadworthy during perchance unsafe roadworthy conditions.”