{"id":653816,"date":"2026-06-23T10:39:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T10:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/653816\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T10:39:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T10:39:09","slug":"thousands-of-lightning-strikes-light-up-sky-across-southern-england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/653816\/","title":{"rendered":"Thousands of lightning strikes light up sky across southern England"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Thousands of lightning strikes lit up the sky overnight, as thunderstorms caused flash flooding and travel disruption across parts of England.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The storms rolled into the south west on Monday evening and moved towards the south east during the night, with people reporting being woken up in the early hours by loud crashes of thunder and flashes of lightning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">London Fire Brigade said it responded to 400 calls overnight, including two house fires believed to be caused by lightning strikes, while a house in Bristol was set ablaze during a storm earlier in the evening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It comes as England braces for temperatures of up to 40C, with the Met Office issuing a rare red alert set to come into force on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thousands of lightning strikes lit up the sky overnight, as thunderstorms caused flash flooding and travel disruption across&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":653817,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-653816","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\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=653816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653816\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/653817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=653816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=653816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=653816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}