Danny Mills
BBC Radio 5 live in Miami

The medical staff are exceptional and have experience. The players will have been in the dressing room and will have been kept moving. They will go through a gentle warm-up, a few sprints and the next 10 minutes of the game might not be at the same tempo.

Play is back under way. No more thunder and lightning, please!

FITBhighlights, external: Frimley Green v Hanworth Villa in the Combined Counties league was postponed after groundsman forgot to paint pitch markings!

Ashish Kumar, external: My school game was suspended for the day as a pair of crows, who had a nest in nearby tree, kept attacking players.

Phil McNulty
BBC Sport Chief Football Writer in Miami

We will resume here after a warm-up - so hopefully the weather will stay fine and we can get a finish. Sounds more like a cricket match with every sentence.

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England aren't the only team to have their final preparations disrupted by Mother Nature. Belgium's last match ahead of the World Cup, against Tunisia in Brussels, was stopped twice during the first half because a heavy hailstorm.

Torrential rain turned into giant hailstones - making the pitch look like a driving range covered in golf balls. The score was 0-0 when the game was interrupted, with Belgium going on to win 1-0.

QPR and SFG FAN, external: A while back QPR v Leicester was suspended due to a squirrel on the pitch.

GreekPete, external: Yesterday an African Champions League match was suspended due to a sandstorm. Today, Belgium's friendly due to hailstorm. Both resumed.

Play will resume in 10 minutes' time.

England's players are coming back out to warm up now. Keeper Joe Hart was first out the tunnel.

Fingers crossed we will actually be seeing some football again soon.

Sun Life Stadium spokesman Tony Correa on ITV1: "I've lived here for 40 years and these thunderstorms can last 10 minutes or can last an hour. Right now we are monitoring the situation - we just don't know. Generally they pass through quite quickly."

Bryn via text: Admittedly I wasn't there but sometime in the mid 90s, Woking's Conference match with Hayes was abandoned when our captain, Kevan Brown, fell into a hole in the pitch. Ironically a storm the previous night caused the drainage system under the pitch to collapse.

If you thought it was bad in England earlier then it's nothing compared to the buckets of rain falling on Miami right now. The fans are seeking shelter inside the concourses around the stadium and only the brave remain in their seats. Wonder if Steve McClaren is around to lend an umbrella?

Phil McNulty
BBC Sport Chief Football Writer in Miami

The Honduras fans beat a very hasty retreat under cover once that cloudburst hit the Sun Life Stadium.

Many England fans decided to stay out in the open to take a right soaking. Actually some blue skies about although the rain continues to fall.

Referee Ricardo Salazar on ITV: "I've looked at the radar and spoken to the weather forecasters and they're saying it is getting worse. In this part of the world these storms just seem to pop up and go away, but sometimes they get worse."

England football match suspended by thunder and lightning? As Roy Hodgson has just said, that's a first in his long managerial career. What's the most bizarre reason you have seen for a match to be stopped? Let's hear them. Tweet #bbcworldcup, external or text 81111.

Roy Hodgson
England manager on ITV

"We will wait for another half hour and see what happens - we will be ready to play whenever. But we are not prepared to go down the despair route, hopefully the game will start again.

"If it doesn't then the good thing is we have no more injuries, we were controlling the game very well, and had a couple of great chances. Neither side was going hell for leather but that is understandable considering the World Cup is just a week away."

Phil McNulty
BBC Sport chief football writer in Miami

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England manager Roy Hodgson doesn't have the best of luck with the weather does he? Remember how the World Cup qualifier with Poland last October was washed out by a torrential deluge in Warsaw - when stadium officials failed to close the roof over the stadium?

James Smales, external: Lightning stops play. Apart from Danny Welbeck's step over it's the flashiest thing we've seen all game.

Roy Hodgson
England manager on ITV

"It's a surprise that play has been suspended, it's not something we come across much in Europe. We can only accept and appreciate the referee's decision because he is concerned about the safety of the players."

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Referee Ricardo Salazar on ITV: "We have lightning strikes within two miles of the stadium so we will wait for 30 minutes and assess the situation then. If we have to delay further, which we hope we won't have to do, then we will. This is all for the safety of the players."

England on Twitter:, external Officials confirm the match will be delayed for a minimum of 30 minutes. Storm apparently 'getting worse' and game could be delayed longer.

Daily Telegraph football correspondent Henry Winter on Twitter, external: Stadium announcement.

Image source, @HenryWinter