After two hours of thunder and lightning on Wednesday night forecasters are predicting violent storms will return to the city tonight.
Hundreds of readers sent in incredible pictures and video as the sky crackled with electricity, sheet and fork lightning squirreled overhead, and the region was hit with immense torrential downpours and golf-ball sized hail.
PICS/VIDEO: Thunder and lightning split the sky in Salford storms
Thursday brought cooler, breezier weather with the average temperature dropping to 22°C, but humidity has crept upwards through Friday bringing with it the threat of severe downpours.
The Met Office has issued a yellow alert for rain for the second time in a week.
Heavy and possibly severe thunderstorms are expected to develop on Friday evening from around 10pm Friday into the early hours of Saturday morning.
Watch: Slow-mo Salford lightning storm
Brief but torrential downpours could cause “significant disruption” with flash flooding, hail, frequent lightning and squally winds the likely hazards.
The Met Office has also extended the weather warning to encompass the whole of England.
Chief Forecaster John Foster said: “On Friday evening another hot and increasingly humid airmass is expected to spread northwards from the continent. This airmass looks conducive to the development of isolated thunderstorms during the evening which are likely to become more frequent as they spread northwards towards Scotland.
“30mm of rain is possible in less than an hour with as much as 50mm possible in three hours.
“The most likely areas for disruption are considered to be Wales, parts of the Midlands and especially North West England.”
Some areas will miss the storms altogether, as uncertainty still remains over the exact direction of the storms.
