A yellow weather warning featuring storms and lightning has been forecast for England after Friday’s (June 17) mini heatwave. The Met Office says an area of storms producing lightning may lead to disruption in the coming hours.
The warning is in place across parts of southern England until 7pm on Saturday. It comes after Britain saw its hottest day of the year yesterday for the third day in succession with the mercury hitting 32.7C in Suffolk.
The Met Office issued a warning of some short term loss of power or other utility services could be possible as well as damage to buildings. It said storms are expected to move northeastwards across the south-west and into southern England.
The Met Office added: “These may bring frequent lightning to sites for a short period of time before they clear to the northeast. A brief period of heavy rain is also likely but given the speed of movement lightning is thought more likely to be a hazard.
“The most frequent lightning is likely to be in parts of Cornwall and Devon.”
Other counties affected include Somerset, Dorset, Gloucestershire, Wiltshire and Hampshire, reports The Express. It comes after temperatures dropped by almost 15C in some parts of the UK as a result of an influx of cooler Atlantic air.
Meteogroup UK forecasts an unsettled evening tonight across England and Wales with cloudy skies and scattered showers or longer spells of rain which will be locally heavy and thundery and clearing eastwards overnight.