Flooding is expected to wash away the warmest spring equinox in more than 50 years as thunderstorms traditionally associated with summer are brought forward by climate change, the Met Office said.
Twenty-one alerts, where flooding is deemed possible by the Environment Agency, are in place across the South West and Midlands, with flooding expected in the Bourne Valley, Wiltshire. Frost is expected to return to rural areas as temperatures plunge overnight.
