A weather warning for thunderstorms has been issued across parts of the UK.
A yellow warning has been put in place from 8pm on Sunday until 4am on Monday, with the weather potentially causing some localised disruption, says the Met Office.
London and south-east England, south-west England, most of Northern Ireland, large parts of Wales, east of England, Northamptonshire and Warwickshire are all covered by the warning.
There is a good chance driving conditions will be affected by spray or hail, and there will probably be some damage to buildings and structures from lightning strikes and gusty winds.
Flooding of homes and businesses is possible, and there could be delays to train services.
Forecasters say that some short-term loss of power and other services is also possible.
The Met Office said the heavy showers and thunderstorms are expected to develop across south-west England on Sunday and move north across parts of Wales and Northern Ireland.
They are expected to clear during the early hours of Monday.
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The remains of the submerged Gary Qasruka village abandoned 36 years ago, which have resurfaced after falling water levels at the Dohuk Dam due to drought, in the autonomous Kurdish region of Iraq. AFP -
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The dolmen of Guadalperal, also known as the Spanish Stonehenge, is seen due to the receding water of the Valdecanas reservoir near El Gordo, Spain. Reuters -
A shopping cart rusts on a sandbank in the Rhine, exposed by the low tide in Bonn, Germany. Reuters -
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The Kloental lake's low water level in Glarus, Switzerland. EPA -
Houses of the former village of Aceredo, in Galicia, Spain. The village was buried under water due to the construction of a reservoir in 1992, yet in 2021 the village resurfaced due to a drought. EPA -
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Visitors on the salt flats watching the sunset over the Great Salt Lake, Utah. The lake has lost 50 per cent of its volume since the arrival of Mormon pioneers in 1847. EPA -
A buoy sits high and dry on cracked earth previously under the waters of Lake Mead at the Lake Mead National Recreation Area near Boulder City, Nevada. AP Photo -
Robert Smithson's earthwork 'Spiral Jetty' on the shore of Great Salt Lake, Utah. Constructed in 1970, the work remained submerged until 2002, when a mega-drought began to afflict the region. EPA -
A tire sits on dried land that was once under water at the Lake Mead National Recreation Area in Boulder City, Nevada. EPA -
The Virgen de los Dolores (Our lady of Sorrows) Temple in Guanajuato state, Mexico. The temple, built in 1898, was flooded 40 years ago to build a dam. Heavy drought in the region has exposed its structure again. EPA
A separate area of thunderstorms is likely to develop across central southern England in the late evening, moving north into the Midlands overnight.
A few places may see 20mm to 30mm fall in less than an hour, while other places may not see much rainfall at all.
Forecasters said frequent lightning, hail and local gusty winds may accompany stronger thunderstorms, particularly across south-western parts of England and Wales.
