A yellow weather warning has been issued by the Met Office for Croydon and surrounding areas with the potential for severe thunderstorms.

On the Met Office’s website it says to be prepared for outages to power supplies.

“A band of heavy, thundery showers is expected to move from west to east on Thursday morning,” it said.

“Some places will miss these, but where they do occur there is potential for heavy downpours producing sudden localised flooding of homes and businesses and disruption to power supplies from lightning strikes.”