Thousands of lightning strikes across the Eastpublished at 13:30published at 10:05 23 June 2016
Thousands of lightning strikes were recorded overnight as flooding left rail users travelling from Essex, Suffolk and Norfolk with long delays on Thursday morning.
"Across southeast England, East Anglia and northern France overnight, we had just under 7,000 lightning strikes averaging about 1,000 strikes per hour," said BBC Weather's Carol Kirkwood.
"Conditions are now improving... but there will be more thunderstorms and torrential downpours later this afternoon."