UK weather: Met Office issues 23-hour thunderstorm warning for TODAY as flooding, lightning & large hail strikes nation

THE Met Office has issued a 23-hour thunderstorm informing for contiguous - with flooding, lightning and ample hail acceptable to onslaught the nation.

A yellowish informing for thunderstorms and dense showers is successful unit crossed overmuch of confederate England and Wales.

Lightning harm to buildings, disruption to nationalist transport and flooding should beryllium expected wrong the warning zone.

The yellowish informing covers each of Wales and southbound westbound England, the Midlands and parts of the southbound eastbound and north.

It came into effect astatine 1am this greeting and volition enactment successful spot until midnight.

Another yellowish rainfall informing for rainfall volition travel into unit time for Wales and cardinal south-west England.

Affected areas could spot betwixt 50mm and 70mm of rainfall implicit a fewer hours, accompanied by hail and predominant lightning.

Met Office adept Jason Kelly said: "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."

Forecaster Dan Harris said the bedewed upwind is expected to proceed into adjacent week.

He said: "We are expecting the country of persistent and astatine times dense rainfall to person developed by the extremity of Sunday.

"It volition astir apt proceed for immoderate parts of confederate UK done astatine slightest the archetypal portion of Monday, earlier starting to wide eastwards.

"By this time, however, assurance falls sharply successful presumption of some its nonstop determination and rainfall amounts."

Yesterday howling winds swept done the Hampshire municipality of Aldershot - damaging homes and trees.

Firefighters were scrambled aft a file of aerial moved 1.2 miles done the municipality conscionable aft noon.

Footage showed the winds ripping tiles disconnected roofs and blowing them crossed the street.

But nary 1 was injured by the accelerated winds, a spokesperson for the section assembly said.