dramatic scenes, and looks pretty dramatic on the way down radar picture as well. it was the showers and storms coming up from the south which really meant business. the lightning strikes numbering into the thousands, a lot of rain in places and even this morning there were more thunderstorms coming into the south east corner. there was are clearing away, though, and actually things have calmed down quite considerably now, so for this afternoon it does not look too bad out there. some sunshine for england and wales, the small chance of a shower down towards the south. a bit more cloud for northern ireland and western scotland. temperatures, i9 western scotland. temperatures, 19 degrees for aberdeen, 22 in london, still feeling relatively warm in the sunshine. tonight should be a quieter night, with more cloud coming up from the south which could introduce some outbraked of rain by the end of the night. also some showery rain in western scotland and parts of northern ireland.
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