According to Met Office senior meteorologist Marco Petagna, warmer conditions will arrive once more and could lead to another heatwave. A heatwave can be declared if there is a period of three or more consecutive days of temperatures higher than a location-based threshold.

Meteorologists reckon thunder will hit a drenched Stoke-on-Trent today - before a heat blast arrives in North Staffordshire. It comes as a weather warning for thunderstorms has been issued for a chunk of the east coast today.

The Met Office has issued a new weather alert for thunderstorms across three UK regions. The yellow weather warning is for the East Midlands, East of England and Yorkshire and Humber from 7am tomorrow,