Brutal storms have made landfall across the southern coast of Britain, with weather maps showing its 220-mile path. One appears to show strikes stretching along a diagonal line from Monmouth, south Wales, to Tenterden, Kent, during the day.
The Met Office has issued a yellow weather warning for rain in place until midnight, warning of flash floods and damage from lightning strikes. It covers large swathes of the southern coast of England, Bristol and southern Wales.
Forecaster Netweather reports that a cluster of storms is moving west across southern England today (Friday) and extending westwards in Wales by the afternoon.
It says the storms are likely to produce very heavy rainfall, with a possibility of large hailstones, flash-flooding and “isolated”, “damaging” wind gusts.
Netweather adds: “Frequent lightning will be possible locally. If cloud bases are low enough, a brief weak tornado can’t be ruled out too.”
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