Met Office 23-hour thunderstorm warning expands to cover Cambridge and Peterborough

Tom Burnett
·2-min read
The thunderstorm warning now covers Cambridge and Peterborough
-Credit: (Image: Met Office)


The Met Office has extended a 23-hour weather warning to cover more of Cambridgeshire. The yellow weather warning for thunderstorms originally only extended as far as the west of the county - including St Neots and Huntingdon.

On Saturday morning, September 21, the Met Office extended it to cover other areas of the county including both Cambridge and Peterborough. The warning is in force from 1am until 11.59pm on Saturday.

As well as Cambridgeshire, it also covers many areas of the Midlands, Wales and the West Country and other areas. You can see a full list of areas below.

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The weather warning states: "Whilst there is some uncertainty in the details , scattered showers and thunderstorms will develop across parts of southern England and spread northwestwards through Saturday morning before showers develop more widely later in the day.

"While much of the time it will be dry, with not all places seeing showers or storms, where they do occur 20-40 mm could fall in less than an hour, with a small chance of isolated accumulations of 50-80 mm over the course of a few hours. In addition, hail and frequent lightning may accompany the most intense storms, especially during Saturday afternoon and evening in parts of the Midlands, western England and east Wales."

Full list of areas covered by the Met Office weather warning:

The following areas are now fully or partially covered by the updated weather warning. This is subject to change:

East Midlands:

Derby

Derbyshire

Leicester

Leicestershire

Lincolnshire

Northamptonshire

Nottingham

Nottinghamshire

Rutland

East of England:

Bedford

Cambridgeshire

Central Bedfordshire

Hertfordshire

Luton

Peterborough

London & South East England:

Bracknell Forest

Buckinghamshire

Hampshire

Milton Keynes

Oxfordshire

Reading

Slough

Southampton

West Berkshire

Windsor and Maidenhead

Wokingham

North West England:

Cheshire East

Cheshire West and Chester

Halton

Merseyside

South West England:

Bath and North East Somerset

Bournemouth Christchurch and Poole

Bristol

Cornwall

Devon

Dorset

Gloucestershire

Isles of Scilly

North Somerset

Plymouth

Somerset

South Gloucestershire

Swindon

Torbay

Wiltshire

Wales:

Blaenau Gwent

Bridgend

Caerphilly

Cardiff

Carmarthenshire

Ceredigion

Conwy

Denbighshire

Flintshire

Gwynedd

Isle of Anglesey

Merthyr Tydfil

Monmouthshire

Neath Port Talbot

Newport

Pembrokeshire

Powys

Rhondda Cynon Taf

Swansea

Torfaen

Vale of Glamorgan

Wrexham

West Midlands:

Herefordshire

Shropshire

Staffordshire

Stoke-on-Trent

Telford and Wrekin

Warwickshire

West Midlands Conurbation

Worcestershire

Yorkshire & Humber:

South Yorkshire

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