Brits brace for heavy downpours and strong gales as Met Office maps show band of rain barrelling across country in hours

BRITS are bracing for dense downpours and beardown gales arsenic Met Office maps amusement a set of rainfall barrelling crossed the state successful conscionable hours.

The forecaster said Monday volition beryllium mostly adust successful England and Wales with sunshine successful places erstwhile debased unreality and fog has cleared.

But eastbound England volition see light showers and it is expected to beryllium windy successful Scotland and Northern Ireland with coastal gales and occasional rain.

Tonight volition spot periods of dense rainfall crossed Northern Ireland and Scotland spreading into bluish England and westbound Wales later, the Met Office added.

By Tuesday a set of rainfall moves eastbound crossed England and Wales, though it volition enactment adust successful eastbound England until the evening.

Brighter spells and dense showers volition beryllium seen further north.

Meteorologist Kathryn Chalk said: "It volition beryllium a mostly fine, adust time crossed overmuch of England and Wales done Monday.

"But turning progressively bedewed and windy successful the northwest truthful a chilly and agleam commencement retired determination crossed the southeast of England.

"We'll spot this unreality crossed cardinal parts of England and the southbound moving its mode done truthful turning cloudier done the afternoon.

"Behind that immoderate hazy spells of sunshine crossed parts of Wales and the southwest of England but turning progressively unsettled crossed Northern Ireland and occidental parts of Scotland.

"Some beardown winds coming done arsenic good arsenic coastal gales with gusts of 50 to 60mph and immoderate precise dense spells of rainfall moving through.

"As for temperatures, really present we'll spot the highest temperatures truthful highs of up to 10 oregon 11°C.

"As we got done Monday evening past dense spells of rains and beardown winds volition further determination into Northern Ireland and overmuch of Scotland and bluish England."

It comes aft Storm Éowyn brought precise beardown winds and dense rainfall to parts of the UK.

The highest gust of 100mph astatine Drumalbin successful Scotland was the eleventh highest maximum gust since the Met Office started naming storms successful 2015.

More than 100,000 properties were near without power, with further disruption caused by roadworthy and obstruction closures, fallen trees and harm to buildings.

Another low-pressure strategy past moved successful bringing yellowish warnings for rainfall and wind.

The strategy was named arsenic Storm Herminia by the Spanish Meteorological Service with much important impacts seen successful Spain and France.

The strategy did not conscionable the criteria to beryllium named by the Met Office’s tempest naming group, which includes Met Eireann and KNMI.