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Edinburgh Live
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Abbie Meehan

Edinburgh Weather: Freak floods leave shoppers trapped in Cameron Toll car park

Flash floods in Edinburgh this afternoon have left shoppers trapped in a car park.

The cars can be seen struggling through the flooded roads outside the Cameron Toll shopping centre - with one red Toyota stranded in the middle of a busy junction.

Other cars drive rather quickly through the ever-growing sea of rain water, with a black Edinburgh taxi at the forefront of the race to safer, high ground.

For more updates on the changing weather in the capital this afternoon, follow our live blog, here.

On resident tweeted: "Cameron Toll, Edinburgh at a stand still and queues of traffic with frustrated drivers. Why can't we see what is happening to our planet and that this is literally not helping."

These floods follow a yellow weather warning issued by the Met Office yesterday, which states, "Heavy, slow-moving, thundery downpours will develop on Monday.

"Some places will miss these, but where they do occur, 20-30 mm rain may fall in a short space of time, perhaps with 50-80 mm over several hours in a few places.

“The showers will die out during the evening.”

A thunder and lightning storm is currently predicted to hit Edinburgh at around 4 pm on Monday alongside heavy showers.

Another Twitter user shows the extent of the damage to cars in their video, stating, "Avoid Cameron Toll Edinburgh, flooding causing mayhem !"

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