Photo Credit: Rain on Wimbledon Common in south-west London on Thursday. Photograph: Amer Ghazzal/Rex/Shutterstock
Downpours and floods in Pakistan and Afghanistan, and in China possibly the world’s worst heatwave on record.
For some parts of central and eastern England that have not seen appreciable rainfall for several weeks, there was a change of fortunes on Thursday as heavy rain and thunderstorms developed. Over a wide area across the east Midlands, East Anglia and south-east England, 20-30mm of rain was recorded during Thursday morning, which is between a third and a half of what we would normally expect in the month of August.
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