Met Office issues new 24-hour thunder and lightning warning - areas affected (2024)

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The forecaster has issued a 24-hour weather warning for heavy showers and thunderstorms, covering much of England and eastern Wales on Monday.

By Astha Saxena

Met Office issues new 24-hour thunder and lightning warning - areas affected (2)

Weather maps show parts of the UK hit by heavy rain and thunderstorm (Image: WXCharts)

The Met Office has issued a new weather warning of thunderstorms and lightning that will affect several parts of the country. The weather alert could bring power cuts, localised flooding some cancellations to train and bus services.

The forecaster has issued a 24-hour yellow warning for heavy showers and thunderstorms on Monday, September 2, covering most of the UK, while a separate weather warning is in place for Sunday, covering much of England and eastern Wales from 4am to 9pm on Sunday.

Met Office Deputy Chief Meteorologist Dan Harris, said: “The risk of thunderstorms steadily transfers northwards through Sunday afternoon and into the early evening."

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Met Office issues new 24-hour thunder and lightning warning - areas affected (3)

The Met office has issued a yellow warning of thunderstorm for several parts of the UK (Image: WXCharts)

The warning for Sunday indicates there will be "disruption from heavy showers and thunderstorms."

The alert, which took effect at 4am covers a swath of central England from the Isle of Wight to Newcastle upon Tyne.

In Wales, the areas of Monmouthshire, Newport, Torfaen, and Wrexham are impacted. The Environment Agency has seven flood alerts currently in place.

The updated warning comes a day after the Met Office issued a yellow alert on Saturday.

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⚠️ Yellow weather warning issued ⚠️

Thunderstorms across parts of England, Wales and Scotland

Monday 0000 – 2359

Latest info ?????? https://t.co/QwDLMfRBfs

Stay #WeatherAware⚠️ pic.twitter.com/ikg8DAyBxF

— Met Office (@metoffice) September 1, 2024

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    Full list of areas affected:

    East Midlands

    • Derby
    • Derbyshire
    • Leicester
    • Leicestershire
    • Lincolnshire
    • Northamptonshire
    • Nottingham
    • Nottinghamshire
    • Rutland

    East of England

    • Bedford
    • Cambridgeshire
    • Central Bedfordshire
    • Hertfordshire
    • Luton
    • Peterborough

    London & South East England

    • Bracknell Forest
    • Buckinghamshire
    • Greater London
    • Hampshire
    • Isle of Wight
    • Milton Keynes
    • Oxfordshire
    • Portsmouth
    • Reading
    • Slough
    • Southampton
    • Surrey
    • West Berkshire
    • West Sussex
    • Windsor and Maidenhead
    • Wokingham

    North East England

    • Darlington
    • Durham
    • Gateshead
    • Hartlepool
    • Middlesbrough
    • Newcastle upon Tyne
    • North Tyneside
    • Northumberland
    • Redcar and Cleveland
    • South Tyneside
    • Stockton-on-Tees
    • Sunderland

    North West England

    • Blackburn with Darwen
    • Blackpool
    • Cheshire East
    • Cheshire West and Chester
    • Cumbria
    • Greater Manchester
    • Halton
    • Lancashire
    • Merseyside
    • Warrington

    SW Scotland, Lothian Borders

    • Dumfries and Galloway
    • East Lothian
    • Edinburgh
    • Midlothian Council
    • Scottish Borders
    • West Lothian

    South West England

    • Bath and North East Somerset
    • Bournemouth Christchurch and Poole
    • Bristol
    • Devon
    • Dorset
    • Gloucestershire
    • North Somerset
    • Somerset
    • South Gloucestershire
    • Swindon
    • Wiltshire

    Strathclyde

    • South Lanarkshire

    Wales

    • Blaenau Gwent
    • Bridgend
    • Caerphilly
    • Cardiff
    • Conwy
    • Denbighshire
    • Flintshire
    • Gwynedd
    • Merthyr Tydfil
    • Monmouthshire
    • Neath Port Talbot
    • Newport
    • Powys
    • Rhondda Cynon Taf
    • Torfaen
    • Vale of Glamorgan
    • Wrexham

    West Midlands

    • Herefordshire
    • Shropshire
    • Staffordshire
    • Stoke-on-Trent
    • Telford and Wrekin
    • Warwickshire
    • West Midlands Conurbation
    • Worcestershire

    Yorkshire & Humber

    • East Riding of Yorkshire
    • Kingston upon Hull
    • North East Lincolnshire
    • North Lincolnshire
    • North Yorkshire
    • South Yorkshire
    • West Yorkshire
    • York

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