Thunderstorms and flash downpours will proceed till a minimum of Thursday, the Met Workplace has warned after one other evening of flooding yesterday, with automobiles submerged in Yeovil and Tube stations pressured to shut whereas a London hospital cancelled surgical procedures and evacuated 100 inpatients.
A yellow thunderstorm warning has been issued throughout a lot of Wales, northern and central England between 9am in the present day and 6am on Wednesday, with heavy showers and storms anticipated to final nicely into the week throughout north Wales and north-west England specifically.
In the meantime, a yellow thunderstorm warning is in place for many of Scotland for 12 hours from midday, whereas yellow rain warnings additionally comply with for all of Wednesday and the early hours of Thursday morning.
Yesterday a yellow warning was in place for components of Kent and Sussex between 10am and 5pm whereas Devon and Somerset Fireplace and Rescue officers had been known as out to assist autos submerged beneath a flooded part of the A30 exterior a Halfords autocentre in Yeovil, Somerset.
Properties, roads and Tube stations throughout the capital had been deluged, whereas Whipps Cross Hospital was pressured to cancel all surgical procedure and outpatient appointments yesterday after the basement was flooded, inflicting harm to {the electrical} system and a lack of energy.
A significant incident was known as throughout Barts Well being NHS Belief, with workers shifting 100 inpatients from affected wards, together with to different hospitals inside the group, whereas ambulances had been diverted to different A&E departments to alleviate the strain on Whipps Cross.
The wettest a part of the nation on Sunday was St James’s Park in London, the place 41.8mm of rain fell.
The typical rainfall for July in London is 45mm, which means virtually a month’s value of rain fell in a single 24-hour interval. The day by day rainfall worth of 41.8mm recorded at St James’s park is that climate station’s second-wettest July day on file.
Flash flooding at Yeovil in Somerset after torrential rain and thunderstorms struck in the course of the late afternoon
Devon and Somerset Fireplace and Rescue officers on a flooded part of the A30 in Yeovil exterior a Halfords autocentre
Flooding pressured Whipps Cross Hospital to cancel surgical procedures and appointments after some departments misplaced energy in the course of the thunderstorms. Pictured: A hearth engine is seen exterior the primary entrance to Whipps Cross Hospital
Barts Well being NHS Belief stated sufferers are being transferred from the affected departments to different hospitals inside the belief
Close to Whipps Cross Hospital, one household’s house, the place they’ve lived for 34 years, was flooded throughout their first get-together in 18 months and member of the family Nicola Thorogood has described the expertise as ‘heartbreaking’ for her dad and mom
Floodwater begins to subside in Battersea, London, leaving mud coated roads and a automotive which was deserted
A spokeswoman for Barts Well being NHS Belief stated: ‘We’re persevering with to expertise operational points at Whipps Cross Hospital as a result of heavy rainfall.
‘We cancelled all deliberate surgical procedure and outpatient appointments for in the present day, and are diverting ambulances whereas we work laborious to wash up affected areas of the hospital.
‘We’re holding the state of affairs underneath fixed overview and can put up updates about providers as essential.
‘In the meantime, we cleaned all areas affected by the flooding at Newham Hospital yesterday and its emergency division is now open to individuals needing emergency care.
‘We’re working carefully with different hospitals throughout the Barts Well being group to take care of affected person care and asking the general public to verify the newest visiting preparations for every hospital on our web site earlier than coming to any web site.’
The Met Workplace stated thunderstorms happen when there may be heat air on the floor that’s beneath cooler air above it.
The nice and cozy air rises and creates instability which might create fairly heavy downpours of rain and hail, in addition to creating the circumstances for thunder and lightning.
A Met Workplace spokesman stated: ‘Going ahead, there’s some extra thunderstorms and intense downpours within the forecast, with a yellow climate warning for thunderstorms at present lively till 5pm in the present day within the far South East.
‘The present dominant climate sample of the UK is about to be a spell of low strain, bringing with it some extra persistent rain from Tuesday and into Wednesday, with some gradual shifting heavy rain anticipated over Scotland on Wednesday specifically.’
The spokesman stated an official research must be accomplished earlier than any connections to the weekend’s climate might be linked to local weather change, however added that the science signifies that hotter air can maintain extra water, so rainfall is rising on common internationally.
‘In some locations, rainfall is turning into extra intense as nicely. Heavy rainfall can be extra possible.
‘Since 1998, the UK has seen seven of the ten wettest years on file. The winter storms in 2015 had been a minimum of 40% extra possible due to local weather change,’ he stated.
4 stations stay closed, though solely Stepney Inexperienced is because of flooding, however there’s good service throughout most practice and tube providers. Three others – Chancery Lane, Southwark and Temple – are closed as a result of workers shortages.
Eastbound Metropolitan line trains usually are not stopping at Liverpool Avenue and step-free entry isn’t accessible as a result of flooding.
London Fireplace Brigade stated final evening that in whole they’d greater than 600 calls to flood-related incidents together with flooding to roads and properties, stories of ceilings collapsing and autos caught in water.
Boris Johnson tweeted his due to the emergency providers and volunteers after England’s south was battered by thunderstorms.
‘My ideas are with everybody affected by the flooding in London and the South East,’ the Prime Minister tweeted.
‘An enormous thanks to the emergency providers and volunteers serving to households and companies by this tough time.’
Mayor of London Sadiq Khan stated: ‘We’re seeing rising incidents of utmost climate occasions linked to local weather change.
‘This isn’t the primary time in current weeks that London has been hit by main flooding. Regardless of having restricted powers within the space, it stays a key precedence for myself and London’s council leaders that extra is finished urgently to deal with flooding and the opposite impacts of local weather change.
‘This consists of persevering with to induce Thames Water to handle localised points with infrastructure that will exacerbate the influence of flooding.’
Downing Avenue stated the Setting Company would assist any councils affected by flooding.
A No 10 spokesman stated: ‘The Setting Company are wanting on the state of affairs carefully and proceed to work with native authorities to make sure that any assist they want is offered.’
The spokesman stated Boris Johnson agreed with scientists that excessive climate was extra possible because of international warming, however it was a matter for specialists to resolve whether or not particular person occasions had been all the way down to the phenomenon.
‘The Prime Minister utterly agrees that local weather change goes to result in extra excessive climate occasions, which is why we’re doing what we’re doing to try to cut back greenhouse gases,’ the spokesman stated.
The Authorities was pushing for the Cop26 local weather summit in Glasgow ‘to result in constructive adjustments to come back’.
Photos from the streets of the capital present fireplace crews utilizing specialist gear to rescue drivers from stranded automobiles.
Pictured: A automotive is left coated in mud and particles in the present day at some point after being caught in floodwater in Battersea, London
Police wade by deep flood water to help a van driver whose car is submerged in Chigwell Street, London
A London taxi drives by water on a flooded highway in The 9 Elms district of London after thunderstorms
Below water: The subway at South Woodford Station has flooded after heavy rainfall
London Fireplace Brigade crews needed to come to the rescue after two automobiles turned stranded in flood water at Worcester Park
Flooding in Chigwell after thunderstorms hit London
Pictured: Volunteers inflated a dinghy and carried stranded passengers from a submerged bus in London
Pictured: Water on the dancefloor at Walthamstow Trades Corridor, a members’ membership in north-east London, after heavy rain fell on Sunday
Pictured: The A406 Southend Street remained closed into this morning as floodwater submerged each side of the highway
New Cross Street turned ‘a river’ amid the heavy downpours, and video confirmed Pudding Lane tube station virtually utterly submerged.
In the meantime, residents in north-east London used buckets, brooms and wood boards to create makeshift flood defences for his or her houses, whereas water gushing from an Underground station was caught on video.
Restaurant supervisor Mariya Peeva, who lives in Woodford, stated her neighbour’s bed room was flooded, and her son labored with different residents to stop the rising rainwater from deluging their house.
Ms Peeva, 46, stated: ‘My son went to purchase some meals from the native store – by the point he got here again the entire avenue and the pavement had been already flooded and the water was coming into our entrance door.’
Londoner Eddie Elliott, 28, stated the flooding was the worst he had ever seen it, after he cycled previous Queenstown Street station the place the highway had been ‘completely shut down’.
He stated: ‘Having been born and raised in London, I’ve by no means seen something fairly prefer it.
‘It stands out because the worst I’ve skilled personally … completely shut down the entire highway with buses stood damaged down within the water.’
A makeshift defence created by residents in Woodford to guard their house from floodwater after heavy rainfall hit London
Residents scramble to cease floodwater from getting into their houses after torrential downpours within the capital
Properties, roads and Tube stations flooded whereas two London hospitals requested sufferers to remain away after thunderstorms and battered the south. Pictured: fireplace crews use specialist gear to rescue a stranded driver in Worcester Park
The River Roding in East London burst its banks after torrential downpours. Pictured: Chigwell Street
Residents try and unblock a drain in south Woodford after a junction is submerged in rainwater after torrential downpours
London Fireplace Brigade stated they obtained greater than 600 calls to flooding associated incidents together with to stranded automobiles
Newham Hospital had the same enchantment, writing on its Twitter account: ‘Our Emergency Division has flooded in some areas. We’re nonetheless right here when you want us however to assist us whereas we sort things please attend a neighbouring hospital if doable. Thanks!’
Standon Calling competition in Hertfordshire was additionally cancelled as a result of floods.
The competition stated in an announcement: ‘Sadly as a result of flooding we are going to not have the ability to proceed with the competition.
‘If you happen to can safely depart the positioning this night please accomplish that as quickly as doable. We’re engaged on getting everybody off web site as safely and rapidly as doable.’
The rain introduced an finish to the heatwave earlier this week, however temperatures are set to rise in most locations once more on Monday because the storms clear, with the mercury predicted to achieve 78F in London, 77F in Edinburgh, 75F in Cardiff, and 71F in Belfast.
The Met Workplace has predicted early cloud in some northern and jap components which can transfer as much as Scotland, and sunny spells and scattered showers in most locations all through the day on Monday.
Pictured: The scene at Pudding Lane Tube station, which is seen above completely submerged underneath water
Canary Wharf enterprise park buildings seen by heavy rainfall as a mass storm passes over town on Sunday afternoon
Lightning strikes close to Canary Wharf enterprise park buildings with a bolt showing to hit Aragon Tower in south east London
A yellow warning for storms additionally covers a wider space of the south from Norwich to Plymouth, and lasts till midnight
Cops cease site visitors from driving into flood waters and redirect site visitors after extreme rain prompted flooding in east London
The Met Workplace has issued an amber warning for storms masking London and a few of the Residence Counties
Met Workplace rain gauges wanting again over six hours noticed 34mm of rain at Sandhurst and 32mm at Wych Cross in East Sussex. An Setting Company rain gauge recorded 52mm of rainfall in an hour simply west of Ashford. Pictured: 9 Elms, London
Rain introduced an finish to a heatwave earlier this week, doubtlessly disappointing anybody who hoped for a sunny journey to the coast
Elements of south east England noticed as much as 50mm of rain in simply an hour on Sunday afternoon as the realm was battered by torrential rain (Pictured: Individuals strolling in Wimbledon Frequent, south west London, shelter from heavy showers underneath an umbrella)
Two pals in summer season clothes shelter themselves from heavy rain showers which broke the week lengthy heatwave in London
Met Workplace meteorologist Steven Keates stated the storms are being brought on by a ‘convergence’ of air currents, as a result of heat within the earth’s floor from the current heatwave rising into cooler air within the environment. Pictured: 9 Elms district, London
Pictured: London Firefighters look alongside Chigwell Street in south Woodford which fits underneath the A406. The Metropolitan Police have declared a ‘main incident’ in north-east London after heavy rainfall and thunderstorms prompted flash flooding
The river Roding seems to have burst its banks near the Charlie Brown roundabout under the A406 North Round Street in South Woodford. Police have closed Chigwell Street both aspect of the roundabout and it remained closed in a single day
Walthamstow MP Stella Creasey informed constituents she may ‘share this ache’ as a result of her home had additionally been flooded
A bike owner rides by flood water in Horse Guards Street in central London as thunderstorms pelted the capital
A lady walks by Parliament Sq. as heavy rain sweeps by central London throughout torrential rain
A rest room overflows on Pudding Lane, London, because the capital’s infrastructure struggles to deal with the flooding
Battersea, London, flooded from the rain. It comes after lightning set fireplace to homes in Andover, Hampshire, on Saturday
There was a warning for heavy downpours and thunderstorms for southern England and South Wales from 8pm Friday and over the following two days with as much as 2in (50mm) of rain anticipated inside just some hours. Pictured: a flooded avenue in Battersea
Wooden Inexperienced Excessive Avenue, in East London, taped off to the general public because of flash flooding following heavy downpours
Elements of south east England noticed as much as 50mm of rain in simply an hour on Sunday afternoon. Pictured: Wooden Inexperienced excessive avenue
Wooden Inexperienced Excessive Avenue within the aftermath of flash flooding. The heavy downpours are additionally anticipated to proceed
A torrential downpour in East London.Leytonstone Excessive Avenue in East London flooded after a torrential downpour
Residents and enterprise house owners get artistic as they attempt to shield their properties from flooding in Leytonstone Excessive Avenue
Pedestrians sheltering beneath umbrellas in Wimbledon Village. The nice British summer season getaway started on Friday
Jamie Curtis stated the roads close to Clapham Frequent had been blocked as a result of floodwater which was ’12 to 18 inches deep’.
‘(I’ve) not seen that degree of flooding in London earlier than,’ he stated.
Walthamstow MP Stella Creasy informed constituents she may really feel their ache – as a result of her home was flooded too.
Met Workplace meteorologist Steven Keates stated the storms are being brought on by a ‘convergence’ of air currents, as a result of heat within the earth’s floor from the current heatwave rising into cooler air within the environment.
It comes after lightning set fireplace to homes in Andover, Hampshire, on Saturday morning, forcing residents to go away.
Neighbours heard an ‘monumental bang’ because the strike set two houses ablaze on Mercia Avenue, and a 70-year-old girl was assessed by paramedics.
Kingston Police, who oversee a borough within the amber zone for storms, warned motorists to ‘drive rigorously’ and bear in mind they’re ‘not driving a submarine’.
The pressure stated in a tweet: ‘Please bear in mind to drive rigorously. Additionally keep in mind that you are not driving a submarine. Don’t enter what may presumably be deep water. Watch your velocity and distance as stopping distances might be higher.’
River water ranges rose after downpours. Pictured: A burst water pipe subsequent to Hammersmith Bridge, in West London
There was a warning for heavy downpours and thunderstorms for southern England and South Wales from 8pm Friday
Handout photograph of in buses in flood water in Battersea, south London, after heavy rainfall hit the capital
Man walks by flood water in Horse Guards Street in central London. Thunderstorms introduced heavy rain to the south east
Pictured: A pedestrian crosses by deep water on a flooded highway in The 9 Elms district of London throughout heavy rain
A lady walks by a flooded path in St James’s Park in central London. Kingston Police, who oversee a borough within the amber zone for storms, warned motorists to ‘drive rigorously’ and bear in mind they’re ‘not driving a submarine’
A automotive drives by water on a flooded highway in The 9 Elms district on London following hours of heavy rain within the capital
Two individuals shelter underneath the identical umbrella as they stroll by the grass at Wimbledon Frequent on the wet Sunday
One park-goer in Wimbledon shelters herself from the rain whereas a buddy stands close by whereas they stroll by the Frequent
Rain bounces off the pavements in central London as individuals shelter underneath umbrellas because the capital was battered with rain
Two pals in summer season clothes shelter themselves from the rain throughout heavy showers which broke a week-long heatwave
Heavy rain kilos the streets in Soho, London. The capital metropolis noticed flash flooding because of extraordinarily heavy downpours
Two individuals cosy up underneath an umbrella strolling in Wimbledon Village in the course of the heavy rain showers on Sunday afternoon
Thunderstorms introduced torrential downpours and localised flooding to components of the south east on Sunday
The rain introduced an finish to the heatwave earlier this week, doubtlessly disappointing anybody who hoped for a dry, sunny journey to the coast.
The remainder of the nation was forecast to expertise a cloudy, extra settled finish to the week with sunshine anticipated in Scotland.
Temperatures are set to rise in most locations once more in the present day because the storms clear, with the mercury predicted to achieve 26C in London, 25C in Edinburgh, 24C in Cardiff, and 22C in Belfast.
The Met Workplace has predicted early cloud in some northern and jap components which can transfer as much as Scotland, and sunny spells and scattered showers in most locations all through the day.
Final week Britons heading on staycations to campsites and caravan parks alongside the south coast had been warned over incoming storms, hail and 55mph winds which had been set to hit England on Friday night and final all through the weekend.
Site visitors navigates by deep water on a flooded highway in The 9 Elms district of London on Sunday throughout heavy rain
A automotive drives by deep water on a flooded highway in The 9 Elms in the course of the torrential downpour
A bike owner wades by deep water on a flooded highway in The 9 Elms district of London on Sunday
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