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Met Office Issues Local Thunderstorm Warning for Yorkshire as Heatwave Continues
The warning covers 42 regions and could bring 30mm of rain in under an hour, with delays, flooding and power cuts possible.
- The Met Office issued a yellow thunderstorm warning for 42 UK regions on Tuesday from 3pm until 10pm, covering the East Midlands, eastern England, London, southeast England, northwest England, southwest England, west Midlands, and Yorkshire and Humber.
- Record-Breaking spring heat prompted the warning after Kew Gardens in south-west London hit 34.8C on Monday, Britain's provisional all-time hottest meteorological spring temperature, while temperatures failed to drop below 21.3C at Kenley Airfield.
- Heatwave conditions had already been met in eight English locations by Sunday: Heathrow, Kew Gardens and Northolt in London; Benson in Oxfordshire; Brooms Barn and Santon Downham in Suffolk; High Beech and Writtle in Essex.
- South Western Railway cancelled Tuesday afternoon and early evening services to help minimise disruption, affecting journeys between London Waterloo and Weymouth via Winchester, Southampton and Bournemouth, and between Waterloo and Aldershot via Woking and Guildford.
- Temperatures could reach 36C Tuesday across southern England and Wales, potentially breaking the May record, while London temperatures ease from 34C Tuesday to 25C+ by Wednesday as high pressure gradually weakens.
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Met Office issues urgent thunderstorm warning as parts of Britain hit by 'torrential downpours'
The Met Office has issued a fresh thunderstorm warning covering large swathes of Wales and the southeast.The yellow-level alert, which will come into force from 3pm today and last until midnight, is set to see “torrential downpours of rain”.Affected areas will predominantly be in Wales and South West but the national forecaster has said parts of Hampshire and the West Midlands such as Herefordshire, Shropshire and Worcestershire, could also be i…
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