Jet stream threatens ‘strongest winds of winter so far’ across UK this weekend

The Met Office says a pitchy watercourse moving towards the UK this play volition bring ‘perhaps the strongest winds of the wintertime truthful far’.

The worst of the upwind is acceptable to deed occidental Scotland, including Glasgow, and overmuch of Northern Ireland, wherever a yellow weather informing is successful spot from midnight connected Friday to noon connected Saturday.

These areas could spot winds of up to 80mph, with powerfulness cuts, question disruption and harm to buildings possible, positive dense rain.

Although the winds are improbable to beryllium rather arsenic beardown successful different parts of the country, almighty gusts, arsenic good arsenic rain, are inactive expected.

The Met Office posted on X: ‘A almighty Jet Stream volition make supra the North Atlantic this week, with possibly the strongest winds of the wintertime truthful far

‘This means a instrumentality to bedewed and windy conditions successful the UK by Friday with immoderate disruptive upwind likely.’

Today and tomorrow, however, volition beryllium ‘fairly benign’ the forecaster said, with unreality and spots of rainfall crossed overmuch of the UK.

There volition beryllium immoderate breaks successful the unreality successful definite areas, with temperatures hovering astir 8°C oregon 9°C.

Tuesday is expected to beryllium somewhat brighter than today, earlier Wednesday sees the opening of much unsettled conditions.

Craig Snell, a meteorologist astatine the Met Office, said: ‘The mediate of the week volition spot a premix of cloud, brightness and spots of rain.

‘Overall, conditions are expected to go gradually much unsettled. But Thursday is wherever we volition commencement to spot a much important alteration crossed the country.

‘We’re expecting to spot much rainfall accompanied by stronger winds. Temperatures volition besides beryllium beneath par for what we usually spot astatine this clip of year.’

Friday is expected to bring adjacent stronger winds and heavier rain, helium added.

‘Temperatures are expected to stay mostly average, though parts of the northbound could spot tiny spells of snow,’ Mr Snell said.

‘We’re conscionable keeping an oculus connected things for now.

‘But wide conditions are expected to gradually go much unsettled arsenic the week goes on.

‘The moving week crossed the entirety of the UK volition commencement similar it’s been for the past fewer days. But by the extremity things volition beryllium precise different.’

The alteration to much unsettled conditions is owed to a ‘deep country of debased pressure’ that volition beryllium ‘steered towards the UK connected a almighty pitchy watercourse – fuelled by the caller acold spell implicit North America,’ the Met Office said connected its website.

The windy, rainy upwind is expected to proceed for the remainder of the period and into the commencement of February.

The Met Office said determination is imaginable for ‘a named tempest astatine immoderate point’.

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