Hailstorms, heavy rain and thunder have battered components of England as forecasters issued a yellow climate warning.
The Met Office alert coated southern England, East Anglia and components of the Midlands – with a radar picture displaying a band of intense rain stretching throughout the nation on Tuesday.
George Dibley, from Basingstoke in Hampshire, stated the rain was “crazy to see and hear” and that it felt like somebody was knocking on his window.
“We got worried at one point that if the hail got any bigger it might damage our car, but thankfully it only lasted a few minutes,” he stated.
Another Basingstoke resident, Sam Middleton-Bray, posted photos and video of huge hailstones falling in her backyard.
“That was some insane weather today here in Basingstoke. I’ve never seen hail that size,” she tweeted.
A climate watcher was additionally shaken up by lightning and an enormous clap of thunder as he filmed below a storm in Warwickshire, saying it was “the closest I’ve seen in my life”.
The heavy rain additionally introduced flooding to some areas, with Devon and Somerset fireplace and rescue service saying that they had obtained calls from folks caught in water.
In Bathealton in Somerset, Val Coots stated her backyard had been flooded by a stream – as typically occurs – however that Tuesday’s deluge was “on a different scale though, really unbelievable”.
“The stream rose about a foot above the level of the garden and whole parts either side were completely submerged,” she stated.
Also in Somerset, sixteen-year-old Eleanor Wicks practically bought caught when a bridge flooded in Bruton.
“It was very shocking because it had been raining for about three solid hours and we had to try to find a way around it, through a flooded footbridge,” she stated.
“Our car was on the other side so we had to go all the way around over a flooded footpath bridge and through another bit of flood to get to the car.”
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The climate warning ended at 10pm and forecasters stated the rain would steadily ease by the night time.
Met Office meteorologist Clare Nasir stated they have been “some lively conditions across the south as well as the east” and {that a} danger of rain and hail would persist on Wednesday and Thursday.
She stated that on Friday there may very well be some heavy showers within the South, however elsewhere it is going to be largely dry.
Source: information.sky.com”
