{"id":1044746,"date":"2026-06-23T10:08:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T10:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1044746\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T10:08:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T10:08:14","slug":"spectacular-thunderstorms-hit-london-as-lightning-strikes-spark-house-fires-amid-flash-floods-london-evening-standard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1044746\/","title":{"rendered":"Spectacular thunderstorms hit London as lightning strikes spark house fires amid flash floods – London Evening Standard"},"content":{"rendered":"
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  1. Spectacular thunderstorms hit London as lightning strikes spark house fires amid flash floods<\/a>  London Evening Standard<\/li>\n
  2. Elizabeth Line partially flooded after overnight thunderstorm<\/a>  BBC<\/li>\n
  3. Thunderstorms light up sky across southern England<\/a>  BBC<\/li>\n
  4. Storms cause floods and big travel disruption across London<\/a>  ITVX<\/li>\n
  5. UK heatwave live: Huge thunderstorms hit Britain as country braces for record-breaking 40C heat<\/a>  The Independent<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Spectacular thunderstorms hit London as lightning strikes spark house fires amid flash floods  London Evening Standard Elizabeth Line partially…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1044747,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[2461,52965,1142,12,7212,21836,16,15,741],"class_list":["post-1044746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-uk","category-united-kingdom","tag-heatwave","tag-lightning","tag-met-office","tag-news","tag-rain","tag-thunderstorms","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-weather"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116798875564182638","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1044746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044746\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1044747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1044746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1044746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1044746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}