Heavy rain brought chaos to parts of the UK yesterday as thunderstorms and flash flooding closed roads and shut businesses.
Norfolk County council said emergency services had received around 30 calls in two hours as homes and businesses in Hunstanton, Heacham and Watton were hit by rising water late in the afternoon.
In Cornwall, the fire service was called out to flood-hit homes in St Austell, while commuters in Exeter, Devon, faced traffic chaos as flooding shut major roads.
Cranwell, in Lincolnshire, saw 20mm of rain, with 16mm falling in one hour.Forecasters said many areas would enjoy sunshine today, although rain was expected to return tomorrow.
Laura Gilchrist, of MeteoGroup, the weather division of the Press Association, said: "There is a band of heavy rain coming in from the Atlantic tonight, starting in the north-west and moving south and eastwards during tomorrow.
"But the showers will be much lighter than yesterday, and the weather will improve on Thursday."
Meanwhile, reports of strange lights in the English Channel last night were put down to a meteor shower.
Coastguards said calls were made to stations from Hampshire down to Brixham in Devon and across to Jersey and France at about 9.30pm, with people saying they had seen white and green flares in the sky.
"There were reports of flares all down the coast which went on for about half an hour, but there was a forecast for a meteor shower," a Solent coastguard spokesman said.
Meteor showers are caused by debris from a comet burning up in the Earth's atmosphere.
This can produce shooting stars across the night sky, particularly visible on clear nights – as was the case over southern England last night.
Solent coastguard said it could have been one of three showers forecast - the June Lyrids, the Ophruchids or the Zeta Pearseids.
