This year’s swarms of ants appear to have come thick and fast.
The Met Office has had small ‘rain’ alerts in dry parts of the country all week and then a major alert in the South East on Friday.
The Met Office told The Telegraph: “It’s an annual event where they come out of the ground and fly into the air at the middle of July, it’s when they do their mating.
“When our radar is detecting rain we send a beam down, it hits the droplet and sends the beam back.
“When it was sending the signal this morning our rain gauges were dry, there were no clouds in the sky, it was sunny.
source: express.co.uk