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Wednesday, 14 September 2016

Now it's raining INSIDE: Supermarkets are flooded and cars swept away as hottest day of year is followed by torrential downpours, lightning and TORNADOES (but it's still scorching in the south)

Flooded: Manchester has been battered by extreme rainfall and flash flooding that left cars submerged at an underpass, after other areas enjoyed the warmest September day on recordPictured is the remains of a sink hole on a busy Manchester city centre road following the violent storm that hit the region


An Asda supermarket in Manchester after a violent storm hit the North West on the hottest day of the year in Britain

Pictured is a lightning strike over Dewsbury, taken from Huddersfield, last night as a violent storm hit the North West


It was a sticky night in the South East after the hottest day of the year, but elsewhere in Britain there was thunder, lightning and even tornadoes


A general view inside the stadium as Lightning strikes following the postponement of the UEFA Champions League Group A match between Manchester City FC and VfL Borussia Moenchengladbach at the Etihad last night


Electrifying skies during a storm over a County Durham museum last night - resembling a scene showing the mansion in classic television series and film The Addams Family

Wading through: A woman wades through water more than a foot deep as she walks along the flooded underpass in Manchester

Tourists still flock to the pier in Whitby, a coastal town in the North East, despite it being shrouded in a heavy fog today

After temperatures soared to 34.4C (94F) in Kent yesterday - the hottest September day in more than 100 years - many people took to Twitter to complain about being unable to sleep because of the heat. It wasn't the same for everyone in the UK, however, as Manchester (centre and inset) and Lancashire was hit by violent thunderstorms, flash flooding and power cuts and a tornado touched down on Sheffield. Roads and even supermarkets in the North West were swallowed in deluges, with trains, flights and football games also disrupted - but the Met Office has said it will be a drier day for most of the country today. Rain fell so hard and fast that the Met Office issued yellow weather warnings for the North West, North East, Yorkshire and into parts of Scotland. Images of flooding in the deluge hit region of the North West have since been posted on social media sites. A video emerged of an Asda supermarket (left) in Ashton-under-Lyne, Manchester, under inches of water, before it was evacuated. There were similar scenes in the city's Harvey Nichols (right).

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