Thunderstorms start in the UK after heatwave

Thunderstorms start in the UK after heatwave

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By Jasmine Andersson & Alex Binley
BBC News Media caption, Watch: Lightning strikes light up Scottish skies Thunderstorms are striking the UK and weathercondition cautions are in location as a spell of hot weathercondition draws to a close. There is a danger of torrential downpours, triggering travel interruption and some flooding, the Met Office states. Three days of notifies haveactually been released for most locations, ending on Wednesday. Some parts of Devon and Cornwall have skilled flooding, after rainy conditions brought heavy rain showers and hail to parts of the South West. Temperatures topped 34C in parts of the UK at the weekend and specialists have stated a prolonged duration of rain is required to end the dryspell stated in parts of England on Friday. These locations consistof Devon and Cornwall, Kent and south London, East Anglia and the East Midlands. Heavy rain is notlikely to ease the dryspell since rainwater hasahardtime to penetrate dry ground, significance it will run off the dehydrated surfacearea and lead to flash flooding in some locations, the Met Office stated as it released a number of weathercondition cautions. Image source, The gnome at the bottom of the garden Image caption, Lighting in a picture taken from Bo’ness, Falkirk, on Sunday Much of Scotland was struck by heavy rain late on Sunday and into Monday. A Tesco grocerystore and Vue movietheater in Inverness haveactually been closed after their roofings collapsed following an extreme rainstorm at Inshes Retail Park. A lightning strike hasactually blown a hole in the roofing of a house in the Isle of Man, where emergencysituation services validated 4 houses were struck throughout a thunderstorm overnight. The Met Office likewise projection rain to relocation throughout the nation from the west throughout Monday, with much of Wales and England – other than the south-east of England – anticipated to see thundery rainstorms. An amber caution for thunderstorms, significance flooding and travel interruption is mostlikely, came into force for south-west England at 14: 00 BST on Monday and will stay till 20:00 Heavy showers triggered flooding in locations of Devon and Co
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