It's truly a British summer as Met Office issues yellow thunderstorm warning
Minster on Sea, Kent, last month (Picture: Alamy Live News)
To remind us all even more that it’s still basically winter in the middle of June, the Met Office has issued a yellow thunderstorm warning.
The national weather service says ‘slow-moving thunderstorms and heavy showers’ will last well into this evening.
And to get us all in the mood for the summer, hail has also been forecast.
Welcome to Britain, everyone.
‘The heaviest showers and thunderstorms could produce as much as 20 mm of rain in less than an hour with one or two places seeing 30-40 mm in 2-3 hours,’ the Met Office said in the warning.
The yellow warning is in place for most of today (Picture: Metro.co.uk)
Where could there be thunderstorms today?
Central, Tayside & Fife
- Clackmannanshire
- Falkirk
- Fife
- Perth and Kinross
- Stirling
North East England
- Darlington
- Durham
- Gateshead
- Hartlepool
- Middlesbrough
- Newcastle upon Tyne
- North Tyneside
- Northumberland
- Redcar and Cleveland
- South Tyneside
- Stockton-on-Tees
- Sunderland
North West England
- Blackburn with Darwen
- Blackpool
- Cumbria
- Greater Manchester
- Lancashire
SW Scotland, Lothian Borders
- Dumfries and Galloway
- East Lothian
- Edinburgh
- Midlothian Council
- Scottish Borders
- West Lothian
Strathclyde
- Argyll and Bute
- East Ayrshire
- East Dunbartonshire
- East Renfrewshire
- Glasgow
- Inverclyde
- North Ayrshire
- North Lanarkshire
- Renfrewshire
- South Ayrshire
- South Lanarkshire
- West Dunbartonshire
Yorkshire & Humber
- East Riding of Yorkshire
- Kingston upon Hull
- North Yorkshire
- West Yorkshire
- York
The yellow warning – which means the weather is ‘likely’ to have some impact – is in place from 11am to 11pm.
The alert covers huge swatches of North East and North West England as well as central; and South West Scotland.
Weather officials added: ‘Although not everywhere will see a thunderstorm, where they do occur, they will tend to be slow-moving, with lightning, hail and heavy rain.’
Today’s thunderstorms may lead to floods, travel delays for both motorists and public transport passengers, power outages and buildings damaged by lightning strikes.
People are advised to check road conditions before getting behind the wheel and double checking train and bus timetables.
Mobile phone power banks, batteries and torches should be near by in case of blackouts.
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