rain. this is what happened through the small hours, these thunderstorms developed to the south, pushed northwards. we ve seen around 5000 lightning strikes so far today and a lot of rain as you can see from the radar picture. in some places but not in all places. however, where it has been wet, take this figure, bury saint edmonds, above 70 millimetres of rain so far, that is more than that place would normally expect in the whole month of august, so it has been an exceptionally wet day so far but this rain is now starting to clear eastwards, taking a while to do so i have to say but generally improving through the midlands and eastern england this afternoon. sunny spells elsewhere although cloud bringing showers for northern ireland and western scotland and asked that rain clears through a fresh feel than we have had of late and certainly cooler and fresher overnight. with all the moisture on the ground, could see some fog patches developing across parts of the midlands and
Some of the earthquakes they had eight months ago. Once that comes in and well be able to go through and look a bit better if we have anymore in the way of information. Just to give you a quick glance here Around The World anything from a 6. 6 to 6. 9 weve seen them all year. That is not many earthquakes. Tom, stay with us. Were going to continue our coverage. That is it for me. Im going to hand this over to brook baldwin to continue our coverage of this earthquake thats a 6. 4 in california. Announcer this is cnn Breaking News. Here we go on this independence day. We continue with this Breaking News out of Southern California. Thank you for being with me. Im brooke baldwin. Talking about this major earthquake. Preliminary reports indicate it was a 6. 4 magnitude quake. And just for perspective for all
of us, those deadly quakes back in 1989 and 1994 they were 6. 9 and 6. 7 respectively. I youve been talking to briana, but you felt the building shake . Not only that, when you looked ou