Weather warning for return of the summer thunderstorms to East Anglia

The Met Office has issued a yellow weather warning for the risk of thundery downpours returning to the Anglia region from Wednesday through to Friday.

Many places will miss the showers but some areas could suffer torrential downpours.

The Met Office warning is in force from 6pm on Wednesday 22 June until 6am on Friday 24 June 2016

The Met Office says although some areas will miss them, potentially intense thundery downpours seem likely to affect parts of the warning area from Wednesday late afternoon or early evening onwards into the early hours of Thursday or Thursday morning.

Further scattered thunderstorms are then likely to break out from Thursday afternoon onwards into Thursday night.

The Met Office is warning people to be aware of possible disruption to travel and localised flooding as well as frequent lightning.

The Met Office rainfall forecast computer animation shows where the heaviest rain is predicted to fall

The Met Office says that the northwestward extent of these thunderstorms remains a little uncertain and parts of southeastern England are considered most likely to be affected.

With this in mind an amber warning has been issued for this area from Wednesday evening through until early Thursday.

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