Thunder, lightning and hail strike the UK in dramatic end to summer season

Thunder, lightning and hail person struck parts of the UK successful a melodramatic extremity to the summertime season.

A upwind informing for rainfall has travel into unit lasting each of Sunday for Wales and cardinal south-west England, with a further 2 rainfall warnings – 1 yellowish and 1 amber – coming into effect connected Monday.

The yellowish warning, lasting each day, volition agelong to screen areas further eastbound and further northbound portion the amber warning, up betwixt 5am and 9pm, focuses connected the areas of Birmingham, Peterborough, Stoke-on-Trent and Hull.

The autumn equinox takes spot connected Sunday afternoon, marking the extremity of summertime and the commencement of autumn, with forecasters informing of continued unsettled weather, and perchance much warnings, for the commencement of the caller season.

According to the Met Office, thunderstorms moved crossed the state connected Saturday, starting successful Cornwall earlier striking much central, towards the north-east of London, and past up done Birmingham and towards the East Midlands.

Around midnight, determination was a “plume” astir Northampton, Peterborough and adjacent Leicester.

Lightning successful Great Oakley, Corby, Northamptonshire, astatine astir 1am was captured by section nonmigratory Jenna Smith who posted snapshots of the “cracking” strikes connected societal media.

In the aboriginal hours of the morning, determination were thunderstorms to the acold northbound and southbound of London and immoderate “creeping up” towards the Bournemouth coast.

The upwind led to roadworthy closures successful Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire arsenic a effect of flooding and question disruption betwixt Penzance and London Paddington, and Penzance and Truro, aft flooding connected the railway betwixt Redruth and Camborne.

It's apt we'll spot much impacts from flooding and roadworthy closures and things similar that

Honor Criswick, Met Office

Between 2pm connected Saturday and 7am connected Sunday, Longcliffe successful Derbyshire saw 67.6mm of rain, portion Creswell successful Staffordshire and Evington successful Leicestershire got 65mm and 60.4mm respectively.

Met Office meteorologist Honor Criswick said she had “no doubt” the conditions led to harm and localised flooding successful places aft rain, thunder and “quite important outbreaks of rather ample hail”.

There are 2 flood warnings successful spot successful England for waters successful north-west Leicestershire and southbound Staffordshire.

Ms Criswick said: “Where we’ve had the rainfall implicit the past mates of days we’re expecting further rainfall for the opening of adjacent week arsenic well.

“We person conscionable precocious issued an amber informing arsenic good for akin areas crossed parts of the Midlands and besides conscionable moving up into the north-east of England arsenic well.

“So wherever we’ve seen accumulation of rainfall implicit the past time oregon truthful we’re expecting further rainfall arsenic well.

“It’s apt we’ll spot much impacts from flooding and roadworthy closures and things similar that.”

According to the meteorologist, immoderate affected areas could spot 100 to 120mm of rainfall connected Monday.

But parts of Scotland, Ireland and north-west England mightiness spot a somewhat amended time and determination should beryllium a substance of prima and showers successful south-east England.

Tuesday is expected to spot a “bit of a swap” wherever bluish areas and parts of Scotland are apt to spot longer spells of rainfall whereas overmuch of the south, Wales and the Midlands should spot a mostly adust day.

“From Wednesday onwards inactive precise unsettled outbreaks of rain, immoderate brisk winds astatine times and apt to spot further warnings successful the week I would say,” Ms Criswick said.