The Met Office has issued a weather condition alert for astringent thunderstorms with an end to the searing heatwave now in sight.

At that place is welcome relief ahead for sweltering Brits with temperatures predicted to hit 41C later on today.

The yellow alarm is in place from 4pm on Midweek. Information technology covers most of the Midlands down to London and stretches as far as the east coast. The Met Office say the thunderstorms could final until around 6pm.

Record temperatures could give way to violent thunderstorms in North Wales tomorrow morn, as residents are beingness warned that flash flooding is a possibility.

The official warning reads: "Heavy showers and thunderstorms are expected to develop across primal, southern and eastern parts of England on Wed afternoon.

The Met Office say astringent thunderstorms are alee for many (

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The official warning reads: "Heavy showers and thunderstorms are expected to develop across central, southern and eastern parts of England on Midweek afternoon.

"Whilst almost places will see only small amounts of pelting there is a chance of some isolated heavy downpours and lightning.

"Where these occur a few sites could see 20-30 mm in an 60 minutes and 50 mm in 3 hours."

For some it could come sooner - a huge thunder and lightning strike is expected to striking Devon within hours.

The areas where the storms will hit on Wednesday

A stunned homeowner captured lightning flash in the skies in a higher place his home in Penzance, Cornwall, this morning.

A fork of lightning can be see flashing across the sky before a deafening thunderclap startles dozing residents and a flock of seagulls who accept to the air in fright.

Yellow warnings are mainly issued when information technology is likely that the weather will cause some depression level impacts, including some disruption to travel in a few places.

A lightning wink in the skies higher up Penzance, Cornwall, was captured this morning
But it remains backing in near of the UK today (

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Other yellow warnings are issued when the conditions could bring much more astringent impacts to the majority of people only the certainty of those impacts occurring is much lower.

On Tuesday, parts of the Great britain will see possible highs of 41C- making the country hotter than Jamaica, the Maldives and Barbados.

Rail users warned of delays, cancellations and changes to train services.

Simply temperatures are expected to offset to return closer to normal for the time of year from the eye of the week onwards as cooler air pushes across the country from the due west.

The heatwave will give way to thunderstorms on Midweek (

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Scattered showers for central London are expected anytime from 10am to 7pm on Wednesday with risks of rain from 1pm to 4pm in primal parts of England.

The Met Office added: "Information technology is probable much of the UK volition see temperatures gradually subtract to average or slightly above boilerplate through the week, though occasional thundery showers are possible in the south and southwest."

The UK has experienced its warmest night on record, co-ordinate to provisional Met Office figures.

Temperatures didn't fall below 25C in places.

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