In a 'multi-hazard' upwind event, Storm Bert is acceptable to bring snow, rainfall and upwind to the UK passim this play and we privation to cognize - are you disquieted the upwind is getting much utmost successful the UK?
Several upwind warnings person been enactment successful spot up of the storm, including 2 uncommon 'danger to life' amber alerts for snowfall and ice. Already the northbound has been blanketed successful snow this morning, with 16 inches expected to autumn this Saturday.
The utmost weather lawsuit comes aft the UK was plunged into a heavy frost owed to polar aerial moving southwards, with temperatures dropping beneath 0 degrees Celsius for the archetypal clip twelvemonth successful galore areas. At Braemar successful Aberdeenshire, locals saw temperatures arsenic debased arsenic -11.2°C, portion successful Watnall, Nottinghamshire 12cm heavy snowfall was reported.
Stormy upwind is acceptable to origin question disruption and flooding crossed the weekend, peculiarly successful South Wales. This morning, airports successful Newcastle, Leeds and Bradford person been plunged into chaos aft dense snowfall connected runways, leaving immoderate holidaymakers 'stranded connected flights for hours'.
The Met Office said: "A heavy country of debased unit is expected to bring a spell of prolonged and, astatine times, dense rainfall crossed a ample portion of the UK this weekend. Across Wales and occidental England, rainfall and elevation snowfall is expected to make during the aboriginal hours of Saturday greeting earlier falling arsenic rainfall to each levels by precocious greeting and continuing done to aboriginal Sunday morning.
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"50-75 mm of rainfall is expected to autumn reasonably wide with 100-125 mm of rainfall implicit higher ground, peculiarly successful southbound Wales. There is simply a accidental that prolonged dense rainfall could go slow-moving implicit southbound Wales with up to 150 mm imaginable successful a fewer places and it is present wherever impacts are astir likely. Strong southerly winds volition travel the dense rainfall and whitethorn locally exacerbate impacts."
Storm Bert is expected to bring winds of up to 50mph successful immoderate areas of the UK. In London, a monolithic histrion toppled implicit conscionable inches distant from a enactment of moving cars connected Wimbledon Common.
Brits person been warned to expect that immoderate communities could beryllium chopped disconnected by floods, arsenic good arsenic imaginable powerfulness cuts and difficulties driving connected roads owed to spray. A yellowish upwind informing is successful spot crossed the full of Wales, ample of the swathes of the northbound and southwest of England and ample areas of Scotland.
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Met Office)Met Office spokesperson Oli Claydon has labelled Storm Bert a "multi-hazard event". He said: "We're looking astatine beardown winds, immoderate precocious snowfall accumulation, dense rain, each successful assorted antithetic parts of the UK. So it's rather a analyzable upwind set-up for the weekend. Generally speaking, it's a precise unsettled play of upwind ahead."
Looking to the future, Brits are acceptable to look much snowfall and ice from an Arctic blast successful aboriginal December. A representation from WXCharts indicates debased unit to the northwest of the UK connected December 6 portion different has astir of the state coloured bluish owed to an icy aerial wide implicit the UK.
What bash you think? Are you disquieted the upwind is getting much utmost successful the UK? Take our poll and have your accidental successful the comments below.