Flooding possible over weekend with heavy rain and strong winds forecast

Heavy rainfall and beardown winds could bring flooding and question disruption to parts of the UK this play aft the terrible effects of Storm Eowyn.

Up to 80mm of rainfall could beryllium seen successful parts of England and Wales with respective amber and yellowish upwind warnings issued by the Met Office implicit Saturday and Sunday.

It comes aft winds reached 100mph connected Friday arsenic the tempest near 1 idiosyncratic dead, much than a cardinal radical without powerfulness and caused important question disruption crossed the UK and Ireland.

On Sunday, a yellowish upwind informing covering south-west England, English and Scottish coasts astir the Irish Sea, Wales and Northern Ireland volition beryllium successful spot from 8am to 3pm, with 50 to 60mph gusts expected wide successful the informing area.

A yellowish rainfall informing covering confederate and cardinal England and Wales volition besides beryllium successful spot from 8am connected Sunday to 6am connected Monday.

Some places could spot up to 80mm of rainfall implicit the play from 2 abstracted spells of dense rainfall and thundery showers, portion 10 to 20mm should autumn rather wide and 30 to 50mm could autumn implicit precocious ground.

Flooding to homes and businesses could hap successful the informing area, with powerfulness cuts and hard driving conditions besides possible.

There is besides a “small chance” of accelerated flowing oregon heavy floodwater causing information to life, the Met Office said.

Met Office meteorologist Jonathan Vautrey said: “Looking astatine Sunday, it’s acceptable to beryllium a reasonably good commencement for a batch of areas – different ridge of precocious unit gathering successful to support things reasonably settled, with immoderate sunny spells successful there.

“The cloud, though, is going to beryllium gathering arsenic we spot a debased unit strategy determination into the South West. This volition beryllium bringing dense rainfall successful for south-west England and Wales from benignant of mid-morning onwards, and past that volition dispersed into Northern Ireland and bluish England arsenic we caput aboriginal connected into the afternoon.

“Winds volition besides beryllium picking up with this feature. Certainly, it’s not going to beryllium arsenic beardown arsenic Storm Eowyn. However, due to the fact that it’s coming successful from the South West, it’s going to beryllium really much confederate areas of England that are going to spot the strongest upwind gusts compared to what has mostly been further towards the north.”

An amber upwind informing covering bluish Scotland expires astatine 6am connected Saturday, portion a yellowish upwind informing covering the bulk of Scotland volition beryllium successful spot until 3pm.

Those successful the informing areas person been advised to unafraid escaped items specified arsenic bins, plot furnishings and trampolines extracurricular their homes.

Yellow snowfall and crystal warnings are successful spot successful Northern Ireland until 10am connected Saturday and successful Scotland until 11am, with injuries from slips and falls connected icy surfaces possible.

Up to 10cm of snowfall could make connected precocious crushed successful Scotland passim the morning.

A yellowish crystal informing covering parts of south-west England, the Midlands and confederate and mid-Wales volition beryllium successful spot from 3am to 10am.

“From daytime time onwards, the commencement of Saturday is rather a bully 1 for much cardinal and confederate areas of the UK,” Mr Vautrey said.

“There’s going to beryllium a batch of sunshine around, comparatively calm winds arsenic a transient ridge of precocious unit builds its mode in, and truthful for a batch of radical distant from those inactive ongoing winds crossed bluish Scotland, Saturday volition mostly beryllium rather a tenable day.”

ScotRail said each services crossed Scotland would stay suspended until midday connected Saturday astatine the earliest.

A gust of 100mph was recorded astatine Drumalbin successful South Lanarkshire successful Scotland connected Friday, the Met Office said, portion a record-breaking upwind velocity of 183kmh (114mph) was measured successful Mace Head, Co Galway successful Ireland, Met Eireann said.

NIE Networks said astir 214,000 homes and businesses remained without powerfulness successful Northern Ireland and the Scottish Government said 106,000 properties were without powerfulness successful Scotland precocious connected Friday evening.

More than 1,100 flights were cancelled connected Friday, with Dublin, Edinburgh, Heathrow and Glasgow airports the worst affected.