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On Monday night and into early Tuesday morning, southern England experienced a remarkable display of lightning activity, with the Met Office reporting a total of 29,000 lightning flashes. These included both cloud-to-cloud lightning as well as the more visually dramatic cloud-to-ground fork lightning strikes. Although such a number of lightning strikes can occur during storms following a hot and humid day, the sheer frequency and power demonstrated were notable.
Forecasters had predicted that thunderstorms would move eastward across the region overnight, but pinpointing the exact locations and severity of the storms remained challenging. Alongside the lightning, some areas encountered heavy rainfall intense enough to cause flash flooding, compounding the impact of the thunderstorms.
The formation of these intense thunderstorms was influenced by a couple of key factors. On Monday afternoon, southern England experienced very warm to hot conditions, with temperatures reaching the high twenties and low thirties in degrees Celsius. This heat elevated energy levels within the atmosphere, essentially storing a large amount of power that awaited a trigger.
That trigger came in the form of an atmospheric disturbance higher up in the sky, which released the accumulated energy, leading to the development of towering cumulonimbus clouds known for producing thunder and lightning. This process created the powerful thunderstorms that lit up the night sky and brought heavy rain to parts of the region
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