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Lightning in the UKLightning in the UK: (Image: Twitter @nppereira_, @KhemiEvans and @metoffice )

Thunderstorms have arrived in Britain as the Met Office issued two days of yellow weather warnings for storms and flooding. Despite torrential rain and hail in the forecast, weather enthusiasts were charmed by fork lightning. Thunder and lighting were spotted over Brighton last night with further reports in Norfolk and Birmingham.

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The humidity and high pressure in the south have caused storms to spark across the south of the UK.

A yellow weather warning covers a majority of south England spreading as far as Devon and Manchester.

Twitter users took to social media to share stunning videos of the lightning.

One said: “Nature is incredible. Storm bedevils the skies off the coast above Newhaven, witnessed from our house 2 miles inland.

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