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Good luck out there today, Londoners (Picture: EPA)

Londoners’ resiliance is being tested to the max this morning after multiple Tube lines went down following a restless night that was broken by epic thunderstorms.

Bleary-eyed commuters have arrived at stations across the city to find their normal route to work is either suspended or severely delayed.

As the city headed into rush hour, problems were being reported on:

Bakerloo

Circle

District

Elizabeth line

Hammersmith & City

Liberty

Metropolitan

Mildmay

Tram services

The worst affected is the Circle Line which was completely suspended at 8.30am, according to the TfL website.

There were also part suspensions on Bakerloo, District, Elizabeth, Hammersmith & City, and Metropolitan lines. The rest were suffering from severe delays.

For two hours London faced biblical rainfall during a thunderstorm between 3.30am and 5.30am which brought flooding.

That brought down the Elizabeth Line between Heathrow Terminals 2 and 3, and Terminal 4.

Elsewhere there were signalling issues across London, believed to be from the heat and thunderstorm.

Claire Mann from TfL warned there are likely to be problems across the network throughout the week because of the weather. She said: ‘we are likely to see some disruption to rail and Tube services – with rail temperatures likely to lead to temporary speed restrictions and therefore reduced services in some cases.

‘This will vary by line, with some services that share parts of the overground rail network – like the Overground and the Elizabeth line – likely to be more affected.’

The UK is facing a rare weather warning for extreme heat covering six regions across England and Wales.

Forecasters expect the June temperature record of 35.6°C to be smashed this week, and the UK could see its highest ever temperature, breaking the record of 40.3°C in July 2022.

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