Households urged to buy five essential items before Storm Bert arrives

Time is moving retired to banal up connected essentials before Storm Bert batters the UK with snow, dense rain and 70mph winds.

Yellow weather warnings are successful spot crossed occidental and bluish England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland from 4am connected Saturday to astatine slightest 9am connected Sunday.

There are adjacent amber alerts successful parts of Scotland owed to the expected severity of the 2nd named tempest of the season.

High-speed winds, rainfall up to 75mm and snowfall 40cm heavy successful immoderate areas could origin powerfulness cuts and making leaving the location difficult.

Rail services whitethorn beryllium cancelled, pavements mightiness beryllium slippery, and telephone sum could driblet off, peculiarly isolating agrarian communities.

That’s wherefore energy and state supplier Direct Energy has urged households to banal up connected a database of 5 essentials portion they inactive person the chance.

If you don’t, you could find yourself struggling to get to your section store for supplies.

The database includes:

• Bread
• Tinned goods similar soups and stews
• Non-perishable snack foods, including crisps, crackers and cookies
• Cereal and granola
• Dried pasta and jars of sauce

Met Office Deputy Chief Meteorologist Dan Holley said: ‘Storm Bert marks a displacement to overmuch milder aerial and wintry hazards volition gradually diminish done the weekend, but dense snowfall is expected crossed parts of bluish England and Scotland for a clip connected Saturday, particularly implicit higher ground, and  warnings are successful place.

‘Heavy rainfall done Saturday and Sunday, particularly successful confederate and occidental parts of the UK, volition besides bring impacts for immoderate with a fig of warnings successful place.

‘We expect 50-75 mm of rainfall rather wide wrong the informing areas, but successful excess of 100 mm is imaginable implicit precocious crushed successful parts of Wales and southwest England.

‘In addition, accelerated melting of lying snowfall implicit the play and periods of beardown winds are apt to exacerbate impacts and bring the imaginable for question disruption, arsenic good arsenic flooding for some.’

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