Torrential rain, thunder and hail are to batter Britain in the coming days. The spring sunshine has been brought to a shattering halt after April was set to be the sunniest on record and the driest since 1938.
Lockdown Brits were tempted out last weekend by temperatures of up to 25C. But now, with the country in the sixth week of the shutdown triggered by the coronavirus crisis, weather better suited to keeping people indoors is on the cards.
Britain is expected to be lashed by a week’s worth of rain in just 24 hours with eight flood alerts in place across the country.
Until today, this April had been the driest since 1938, when the month saw an average of 14.1mm of rainfall. As of yesterday, the UK had received just 13.1mm of rain, but
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