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Northern England has been subject to some vicious downpours today, thanks to a vigorous area of low pressure. Some places have seen record breaking rainfall totals. The highest rainfall totals have been across North Yorkshire, in some localized areas 6 INCHES of rain has fallen in just 2 / 3 hours, locally some truly astonishing…

Unfortunately, now that across much of the North Midlands and Northern England the ground is “saturated” which means that the soil and ground can not hold onto any more water that falls onto it, so any excess water becomes surface water “run off”, which is basically water that ends up in rivers. This means that…

What’s happened: The flooding has been very widespread & intense across parts of Lancashire, Cheshire, Manchester, Derbyshire & Pennine areas in the last 12 hours or so. Many rivers have burst their banks. There are 17 flood alerts and 16 flood warnings in force across parts of the North Midlands and Northern England, especially through…

In the coming few days low pressure is going to “get stuck” across the British Isles. This means we can expect some fairly changeable weather, with rain at times. Tuesday looks like it could be a particularly unsettled day, with heavy and prolonged showers affecting parts of the UK, as such the Met Office have…

Some places run the risk of surface / river flooding in the next 24 to 48 hours. All thanks to a weather front, the same one that brought some areas thunderstorms yesterday. This weather front is expected to make advancements west in the next 12 hours or so, bringing bursts of heavy rain, mostly across…

ℹ️ This page shows where the thunderstorms are in the UK right now. Live lightning strikes from the official EURO lightning network (Blitzortung.org). You can also navigate between different parts of the UK for more information   ℹ️ For easy viewing, you can select which area you would like to see the LIVE lightning strikes…