Thunderstorms and heavy rain to persist, marking end of summer

Thunderstorms and dense rainfall volition persist crossed parts of the UK, arsenic summertime officially comes to an end.

Thunder and lightning, hail and rainfall struck assorted parts of the state connected Saturday, including Luton, Bedfordshire, St Albans successful Hertfordshire, and Cornwall, with dense downpours successful London, Wales and Birmingham.

The autumn equinox takes spot connected Sunday, which marks the extremity of summertime and the commencement of autumn.

A upwind informing for rainfall has travel into unit lasting each of Sunday for Wales and cardinal south-west England, and different connected Monday, stretching to screen areas further eastbound and further north.

Met Office meteorologist Jonathan Vautrey said: “With Sunday marking the autumnal equinox summertime has present officially travel to an end, and it ended with a bang for immoderate of us.

“We’ve seen immoderate precise dense showers and thunderstorms spreading their mode successful crossed confederate areas of England, into parts of Wales arsenic good during the people of today.

“This evening, those volition proceed to rumble their mode connected a bit, spreading again into parts of Midlands, Wales, past possibly conscionable clipping the acold southbound of Northern Ireland arsenic well.

“Into the aboriginal hours of time greeting we’ll besides spot our adjacent batch of thundery rainfall moving its mode into confederate areas of England arsenic well.”

He continued: “We bash past person a rainfall informing successful unit passim Sunday for this set of rainfall that’s going to beryllium moving crossed Wales, cardinal confederate areas of England.

“Some precise dense pulses are imaginable with immoderate aboveground h2o issues, question disruption, truthful it is worthy taking attraction if you are retired and astir oregon travelling during the day.”