{"id":514328,"date":"2026-06-23T12:48:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T12:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/514328\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T12:48:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T12:48:07","slug":"london-thunderstorms-cause-travel-disruption-fires-and-flooding-bbc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/514328\/","title":{"rendered":"London thunderstorms cause travel disruption, fires and flooding &#8211; BBC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiWkFVX3lxTE1hNFBwbVpWeC1ocEFDT3NVdkI0dXZIUlFtTnk4OEVKNXdSb2JfeFhJeW4tdTZIcFpVbk1zWHVrR2VYNGtRb19MbXA0R24yOU1GTllrWWhRVWFCZw?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">London thunderstorms cause travel disruption, fires and flooding<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;BBC<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiWkFVX3lxTE1CZlBySXVRZWpjOTFla0ZLWlhvRkszVkxhSEJXbW4zS2lRajQyRUJ4NGw5X3hIQUJ2RGZQU1hjanhtVDk0cUtKMi1OdmpRRTl5XzJlWkJVU1pNZw?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Around 29,000 lightning strikes light up sky across southern England<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;BBC<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiswFBVV95cUxPWTc0bWRUMDhCT0YyazQ1Yl9WdnZDMXUxUUMxalVNZUN6V2EzbExhM3IyR3ZyWkRiUG1sVzItNHp2cFBNQkhoOFU1Wk1sQmlxSG9Lc2FyMElIUmd5QnZvdEFBblNaajIwdjlEM3M4ZGpuQmE4N2pEVjVMcTBhUGp6ZjZRUjlFekJHOVlaamdlckVBem5SUFo0c1hkUVV3ZmxLWk84Vy1wbUQ5Z1BYN1pNc3BjWQ?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">UK weather: thunderstorms herald start of 38C heatwave<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;The Times<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiogFBVV95cUxQMnVRb18tTVd2TkNld2JFdUhid09qc0pSMi1Sck42TnhCX1lYQ0xUek1LQnl5dDRRNXVpM0pnVEtZUzR3ODRsZHgzenlMUEFXd0tpcVYwRHljZmxtazFEM3FfZ0pIN1U0THAzbU5QQTFPeTFUNlQzUXFZdUZCSUFBQzkxbUZnQWxhNnVneUVIa3QtZDFvY0RyN0hqU3JjU2JPTGc?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Heatwave latest: Travel chaos as temperatures rise<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;The Telegraph<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMipAFBVV95cUxNVEg0N1UzYi11cFBfNjdCc3VRVGNVanZ1eExpdXRCNE9hMFB6S1AyMVFTeEFuRVphdk1yVm5PV0RVYl8xODl4TVduQ0ZYdFpXR2QxMnpGY1lIcUwxbEktWnl5UUtVN19NTWJINlh2clVRYlljTDBaRlJJWmQwc0F1V2p0bFRTM2dBdUw2SjdpMWc1WkR2WHRqNjBTZjE5LUdmeGtxSQ?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">UK heatwave live: Schools forced to close as Britain braces for hottest June day after massive thunderstorms<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;The Independent<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"London thunderstorms cause travel disruption, fires and flooding&nbsp;&nbsp;BBCAround 29,000 lightning strikes light up sky across southern England&nbsp;&nbsp;BBCUK weather:&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":514329,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-514328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=514328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514328\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/514329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=514328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=514328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}