THE Met Office has issued SIX fresh yellow weather warnings for thunderstorms and rain. Lightning, hail and thunderstorms are set to batter Brits across the next two days. More to follow…

A double weather warning has been issued for North Wales. The Met Office has updated its weather warnings for the next 48 hours. There are two yellow thunderstorm warnings in place for the region. One covers the whole of North Wales while the warning for tomorrow spares the west of the region (maps below).

A yellow weather warning for thunderstorms and heavy rain has now been issued for Monday 21 July across Nottinghamshire.

THE Met Office has put an Amber weather warning in place as there is a “risk to life” with thunderstorms due to sweep the country. After a spell of sunny skies and baking temperatures,

Between 20 and 40mm of rain could fall in one hour in the amber warning zone, going up to 70 to 100mm in just a few hours where heavy downpours persist. “Torrential rain, with thunderstorms in places, could lead to some significant surface water flooding during Saturday morning”, the Met Office said.