A yellow weather warning in place across the length and breadth of the country with a chance homes and businesses could be damaged or face power cuts.
Thunderstorms have hit the length and breadth of Scotland this morning as the Met Office issued a flood warning.
It covers Central Scotland, Tayside, Fife, Grampian, Highlands and Eilean Siar, Orkney and Shetland, Lothian, the Borders and Strathclyde regions. Forecasters have warned residents there is a chance homes and businesses could be damaged with floods likely to take place. A statement from the Met Office reads: " Thunderstorms are expected to develop over western parts of the UK and move northeast during the second half of Sunday night becoming organised into Monday morning. Although not all parts of the warning area are expected to see them, an area of increasingly organised thunderstorms is likely to produce a combination of frequent lightning, heavy rain, hail and short periods of strong winds.
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