Torrential downpours have battered the UK, with a part of Essex seeing greater than an inch of rain in an hour.
yellow thunderstorm warning was introduced for London and the South East, the East of England and the East Midlands, with forecasters saying flooding is probably going amid “intense downpours”.
The warning comes after a interval of dry climate which has seen drought declared throughout swathes of England, with parched grass and struggling crops, streams drying up and river, reservoir and aquifer ranges low, and hosepipe bans introduced in for hundreds of thousands as heatwaves pushed up demand for water.
Commuters shelter beneath umbrellas whereas crossing a bridge over the canal in Paddington, west London (Peter Clifton/PA) Hunter, an extended haired dachshund, loved the puddles on the Ingrebourne Valley Nature Reserve in Rainham (Ian West/PA) His house owners Mia West, 11, and Jack West, 7, shared within the splashy enjoyable in appropriately named Rainham in Kent (Ian West/PA) Folks stroll alongside canals in Little Venice, London (James Manning/PA) Wembley Approach in north-west London (James Manning/PA) A coot enjoys the change within the climate in Paddington (Peter Clifton/PA) Ealing Broadway station in west London (James Manning/PA) Driving circumstances will probably be affected by spray, standing water and even hail (James Manning/PA) Folks stroll alongside canals in Little Venice, west London (James Manning/PA)
