Image source, chesterdrawers
Twin bolts of lightning splinter done the skies implicit Chesterfield
Spectacular flashes of lightning lit up the skies successful parts of the Midlands and bluish England connected Saturday arsenic thunderstorms rolled crossed the country.
BBC Weather Watchers captured the superb airy amusement implicit Chesterfield, East Leake, Brinscall, Wakefield, Penistone, York and Oswestry.
The storms besides brought flash flooding to parts of the country, with one euphony festival successful Birmingham having to beryllium abandoned.
Rain besides disrupted play astatine some Wimbledon and the men's Ashes.
Image source, Maggie T Howlett
Image caption,Maggie T Howlett captured this representation of a lightning onslaught successful East Leake
Image source, Brinscall Branch
Image caption,Lightning strikes successful Brinscall, Lancashire
Image source, Langy
Image caption,A bolt of lightning snakes crossed the skies supra Oswestry
Image source, Sue
Image caption,Sue shared this representation taken arsenic the storms struck successful West Yorkshire
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Image caption,Lightning pierces the entity supra Penistone, successful South Yorkshire
Image source, Gary Gimmick
Image caption,Gary Gimmick captured the tempest arsenic it deed Heworth, successful York