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The Met Office issued its first ever extreme heat warning this week – but now the heatwave has been stopped in its tracks with many areas of Britain due to experience heavy downpours, lightning strikes and thunder. The forecaster has issued a new amber weather warning for thunderstorms in the UK during Sunday afternoon and early evening.
The Met Office issued a new amber alert for thunderstorms on Sunday afternoon.
The weather warning advises of heavy showers and isolated thunderstorms which are likely to cause surface water flooding.
The warning reads: “Heavy showers and thunderstorms have formed in a line stretching northeast from Surry towards western Essex.
“This line will remain fairly slow-moving through the coming hours, while individual showers or storms tend to move southwest along it.
“Each shower could bring 20-40mm of rainfall within an hour, with isolated locations that experience several showers perhaps seeing 75-100mm of rainfall within the space of a few hours.
“Although some isolated lightning is likely rainfall and the associated surface water flooding are expected to bring the greatest impacts.”
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