Over a month’s worth of rain could fall within two hours on parts of Britain this week, causing flash flooding, while an ongoing heatwave is set to break records. “Even in just a couple of hours we could see 80mm of rain falling. In north Wales, a woman died after a collision between a jet ski and a boat, police said. A spokesman for North Wales police said: “Officers received a call from the Welsh ambulance NHS trust at 19.29hrs yesterday. “The top 10 highest temperatures for the UK have all occurred since 2002,” she said.

Source: The Guardian August 09, 2020 15:11 UTC