UK: Summer under a cloud as weather turns angry
5th July 2007

Looming angrily over London, this is the massive cloud that brought weather havoc to the capital.

Within an hour, its devastating work was done. Hailstones the size of marbles had battered Battersea and flashfloods caused chaos in Clapham. Lightning lit up the blackened sky. Taken from the 17th floor of the London Television Centre on the South Bank, this stunning picture shows the enormity of the cloud that heralded Tuesday's storms - the latest in this summer of dramatic contrasts.
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