GIRL SHOWER!
Spice Girls in plastic macs as torrential rain soaks UK
Shopper by sign MOP right now, thank you very much... The Spice Girls avoided the June “monsoon” causing a washout by singing in plastic ponchos.
Mel B, Emma Bunton, Geri Horner and Mel C soaked up the atmosphere at Bristol’s Ashton Gate Stadium as we had over a month’s worth of rain in a day.
Ham Hill, Kent, was worst-hit with 94mm in the 24 hours to 7am yesterday – against average UK rainfall of 73.8mm for all of June. But downpours, which started on Monday, were worst in the North East and Midlands, with some areas hit by 60mm in the morning alone.
The deluge sparked travel chaos with flash flooding submerging stretches of the M20 – and a section of the M25 closed in Kent as sinkholes emerged.
Trains in the south and south-east were axed as tracks were swamped and the Environment Agency issued flood warnings and more than 30 flood alerts.
This June is odds-on to be the wettest on record, and swathes of the country face more rain today and tomorrow.
Met Office forecaster Marco Petagna said: “There’s more heavy rain expected Emma’s soaked hair over the next few days. By Friday there will be a mix of sunshine and showers, improving into the weekend. But it will still be cool with outbreaks of rain.”
The Met Office still has yellow rain warnings in place for the eastern counties, south-east Scotland and parts of the Midlands and North Wales.
■ The late return of swifts, which normally start migrating north from Africa in April, has been blamed on harsh weather in Europe. Register sightings at rspb.org.uk/swiftsurvey