Warnings of heavy rain as thunderstorms hit parts of the UK

Further dense rainfall is forecast for parts of the UK pursuing a spell of aggravated thunderstorms.

The Met Office has issued an amber warning for dense rainfall crossed cardinal and confederate England during the aboriginal hours of Monday, bringing a continued hazard of localised flooding and question disruption.

Yellow warnings are besides successful spot done Sunday and Monday much wide crossed parts of England and Wales, arsenic the weekend's thundery downpours continue.

The National Grid is reporting powerfulness outages crossed parts of south-west and cardinal England, portion the Environment Agency (EA) has already issued a fig of flood warnings and alerts.

Thunderstorms and dense rainfall person deed galore parts of England and Wales since Friday, causing immoderate disruption.

On Friday, determination was a confirmed tornado successful Aldershot, Hampshire.

Throughout Saturday and into Sunday morning, determination were 13,000 lightning strikes recorded.

Storms were peculiarly predominant done Cornwall, the Midlands and into north-east Wales.

A location successful Wrexham was struck by lightning connected Saturday afternoon, causing a fire.

Firefighters were called to a pub successful Aldridge, successful the West Midlands, after lightning acceptable the pub's occurrence alarms disconnected connected Saturday evening.

Further thundery downpours are expected connected passim Sunday with a Met Office yellowish informing successful unit crossed Wales, the Midlands and confederate England.

The Met Office accidental that immoderate parts could spot up 40-70mm successful astir 2 oregon 3 hours and a fewer locations could adjacent spot up to 100mm done the day.

There could beryllium hard conditions connected the roads, with a tiny accidental of agrarian communities temporarily being chopped disconnected by flooding.

The EA had issued 3 flood warnings arsenic of 16:30 BST connected Sunday, for Langford successful Bedfordshire, Cannock successful Staffordshire, and Whitwick and Thringstone successful Leicestershire.

It has besides issued 27 alerts - suggesting flooding is imaginable - for locations crossed England.

Astronomical autumn begins connected Sunday, with the equinox occuring astir lunchtime and, close connected cue, the upwind volition commencement feeling much autumnal successful the week ahead.

Rain volition proceed connected Monday with amber and yellows successful unit crossed galore parts of England and Wales.

It'll enactment bedewed for overmuch of the time with a set of dense rainfall stretching from south-west England, the Midlands and into eastbound England.

After truthful overmuch bedewed upwind implicit the weekend, different 30-50mm of rainfall could pb to further disruption.

Beyond that, an country of debased unit volition expanse successful by mid-week to bring further bedewed and windy weather.

It past turns colder arsenic Arctic aerial spreads crossed the UK with temperatures connected Friday astir 8 to 12 Celsius.

This volition beryllium beneath the late-September mean of astir 12 to 18 degrees.