{"id":48535,"date":"2023-11-02T10:07:23","date_gmt":"2023-11-02T10:07:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/verwoodtoday.co.uk\/?p=48535"},"modified":"2023-11-02T10:07:23","modified_gmt":"2023-11-02T10:07:23","slug":"flooding-and-lightning-in-verwood-following-the-arrival-of-storm-ciaran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/martin.mx\/verwood\/2023\/11\/flooding-and-lightning-in-verwood-following-the-arrival-of-storm-ciaran\/","title":{"rendered":"Flooding and lightning in Verwood following the arrival of Storm Ciaran"},"content":{"rendered":"

Verwood had a night of stormy weather and multiple lightning strikes above the town resulting in flooding on the roads this morning.<\/p>\n

As Storm Ciaran arrived on Wednesday, lightningmaps.org<\/a> reported around a dozen close flashes of light and rumbles of thunder between midnight and 1am, with car and house alarms being triggered and some fallen fences due to the severity.<\/p>\n

Schools and school buses remain operational as usual.<\/p>\n

As the storm passes through the area, more hazardous weather conditions are expected on Thursday afternoon with rain forecast all day along with winds of around 45 mph.<\/p>\n

Here are some of the areas affected by flooding as caught by our reporters on Thursday morning.<\/p>\n

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Verwood had a night of stormy weather and multiple lightning strikes above the town resulting in flooding on the roads this morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48553,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[196],"class_list":["post-48535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-verwood","tag-flooding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/martin.mx\/verwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48535"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/martin.mx\/verwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/martin.mx\/verwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martin.mx\/verwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martin.mx\/verwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48535"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/martin.mx\/verwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48552,"href":"https:\/\/martin.mx\/verwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48535\/revisions\/48552"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martin.mx\/verwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/martin.mx\/verwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martin.mx\/verwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martin.mx\/verwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}