{"id":653872,"date":"2026-06-23T11:23:23","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T11:23:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/653872\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T11:23:23","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T11:23:23","slug":"huge-thunderstorms-hit-london-as-lightning-strikes-spark-house-fires-london-evening-standard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/653872\/","title":{"rendered":"Huge thunderstorms hit London as lightning strikes spark house fires &#8211; London Evening Standard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMilwFBVV95cUxPM2RXdURzTlBJREFnbVBrV1dtcE5WUlFtMTVLc3B0RUJLQXBJV2c1MjJYU0F6ZzMtREtxNXZaek0xVDczbkVSYlJlOVgxS3B5MHZCdWpsLTNSWmt5QUcxMXc3MlJiYU9GV3VtUS1kWWh6dWdqRFJETXZzLWVEMXI1WFc2Y0dKTWlQeF9BaVJWcWdYRmFUUnE0?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Huge thunderstorms hit London as lightning strikes spark house fires<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;London Evening Standard<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiXEFVX3lxTE1ZT3RpVjYzZ2xEMHdtYzJkT0ZOcnJaM29FeFNhbnpKc3NLRTFUY2ZlZGgxSURMY3UtRTZXNnVTcUFuNGdFck1hel9JcGc2M0pjekNYN2RfeDV3MzAx?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\/CBMiWkFVX3lxTE1hNFBwbVpWeC1ocEFDT3NVdkI0dXZIUlFtTnk4OEVKNXdSb2JfeFhJeW4tdTZIcFpVbk1zWHVrR2VYNGtRb19MbXA0R24yOU1GTllrWWhRVWFCZw?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Elizabeth Line partially flooded after overnight thunderstorm<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;BBC<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<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Huge thunderstorms hit London as lightning strikes spark house fires&nbsp;&nbsp;London Evening StandardAround 29,000 lightning strikes light up sky&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":653873,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,1103,1042,1044,50,1039,3131,56,54,55,1068],"class_list":["post-653872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-heatwave","tag-lightning","tag-met-office","tag-news","tag-rain","tag-thunderstorms","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653872","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=653872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653872\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/653873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=653872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=653872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=653872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}