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Thousands of lightning strikes light up sky across southern England
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- Wapping Weather / Weather Watchers Image caption, Ligntning flashes over Wapping in London in the early hours of Tuesday morning.
- Thousands of lightning strikes lit up the sky overnight, as thunderstorms caused flash flooding and travel disruption across parts of England.
- The storms rolled into the south west on Monday evening and moved towards the south east during the night, with people reporting being woken up in the early hours by loud crashes of thunder and flashes of lightning.
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Wapping Weather / Weather Watchers Image caption, Ligntning flashes over Wapping in London in the early hours of Tuesday morning.
Thousands of lightning strikes lit up the sky overnight, as thunderstorms caused flash flooding and travel disruption across parts of England.
The storms rolled into the south west on Monday evening and moved towards the south east during the night, with people reporting being woken up in the early hours by loud crashes of thunder and flashes of lightning.
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