Bank Holiday Washout! Met Office Issues Nine-hour Thunderstorm Warning For The North East And The South With London...

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Areas of the UK were enduring a washout Bank Holiday Monday with the South East bearing the brunt of the rain amid downpours in London for the whole day.

At 10.15am today, the Met Office issued a thunderstorm warning running between 12pm and 9pm for South London along with Kent, Sussex, Surrey and Hampshire.

A separate warning was also announced at the same time for parts of northern England and Scotland, from 1pm until 9pm. Areas hit by the storms and downpours are expected to see 0.8in (20mm) to 1.6in (40mm) of rain in one or two hours.

In London, heavy downpours began at 8am this morning and are set to last until midnight - with the Met Office forecasting 14 hours of rain over a 16-hour period.

Temperatures will only get up to 15C (59F) in the capital and it will remain cloudy with only a few sunny spells, while showers could turn thundery in the afternoon.

But in the sunshine elsewhere, the temperature is likely to hit the high teens – and East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire will see the warmest spells with highs of 21C (70F).