Met Office issues 4-hour thunderstorm weather warning for 42 areas of England and Wales

The Met Office warning is in force until 4am on Thursday

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The Met Office has issued a weather warning for thunderstorms across areas of England and Wales on Thursday morning (May 28).

The yellow weather warning is in place from midnight until 4am and covers Greater Manchester.

It states: “Thunderstorms will continue to affect parts of England and Wales and are likely to become increasingly confined to northern and eastern parts of the warning area during the course of the early hours. While many places will miss the worst conditions, where thunderstorms do occur frequent lightning and heavy downpours are likely. Hail and strong, gusty winds may also affect a few places.”

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The following 42 areas are covered by the weather warning on Thursday morning:

1. Derby
2. Derbyshire
3. Leicester
4. Leicestershire
5. Northamptonshire
6. Nottingham
7. Nottinghamshire
8. Buckinghamshire
9. Hampshire
10. Oxfordshire
11. Southampton
12. West Berkshire
13. Blackburn with Darwen
14. Cheshire East
15. Cheshire West and Chester
16. Greater Manchester
17. Halton
18. Lancashire
19. Merseyside
20. Warrington
21. Bournemouth Christchurch and Poole
22. Dorset
23. Gloucestershire
24. Swindon
25. Wiltshire
26. Carmarthenshire
27. Ceredigion
28. Conwy
29. Denbighshire
30. Flintshire
31. Gwynedd
32. Isle of Anglesey
33. Powys
34. Wrexham
35. Herefordshire
36. Shropshire
37. Staffordshire
38. Stoke-on-Trent
39. Telford and Wrekin
40. Warwickshire
41. West Midlands Conurbation
42. Worcestershire