Met Office issues two-day 'danger to life' wind warning – full list of affected areas

The Met Office has warned that the adjacent fewer days volition Britons battered by perchance unsafe winds that could whip up gusts arsenic beardown arsenic 70mph successful each location nation

Met Office forecasters person issued weather warnings that volition screen immense tracts of the UK this week - affecting much than a twelve areas.

The state became unusually lukewarm this week, with higher-than-usual temperatures reaching summerlike highs of 22C, with rainfall kicking up humidity successful immoderate areas. The forecasters person issued multiple alerts for terrible rainfall, including "isolated thunderstorms" this week, and they expect the terrible conditions volition lone remain.

The latest warnings from the bureau authorities that the state volition besides go unusually windy implicit the adjacent fewer days arsenic a caller strategy blasts areas with 70mph gusts. The alerts - which volition past 2 days - person told Britons to instrumentality care, with officials forecasting a imaginable "danger to life".

Isolated warnings for acold bluish Scotland commencement from Friday, erstwhile a smaller yellowish alert is placed implicit 3 areas successful the Highlands and Eilean Sar and Strathclyde. Gusts successful the country volition scope astir 55mph, with the overmuch much terrible two-day informing pursuing connected the weekend.

The informing heralds a "windy period" for much than a twelve areas successful England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland from 3am connected Sunday until the day connected Monday. It states: "A windy play is expected crossed the full of the UK connected Sunday and into Monday, but crossed parts of Scotland, Northern Ireland, Northwest England and North West Wales determination is an accrued accidental of immoderate disruption.

"Initially a play of beardown southbound to southeasterly winds volition apt make done Sunday morning, with gusts of 50 to 60mph imaginable successful immoderate inland areas, particularly Northern Ireland and occidental Scotland, and possibly up to 60 to 70mph on exposed coasts and hills.

"Winds volition past apt crook southwesterly, with a play of particularly beardown winds imaginable during Sunday day and evening successful occidental Scotland wherever gusts could perchance scope 70 to 80mph successful exposed areas, and much mostly 55 to 65mph successful different parts of the informing area. These beardown winds successful conjunction with precocious outpouring tides whitethorn origin immoderate disruption."

The afloat database of areas covered by the Met Office alerts - which past until 12pm connected Monday - are arsenic follows:

Central, Tayside & Fife

• Angus
• Clackmannanshire
• Dundee
• Falkirk
• Fife
• Perth and Kinross
• Stirling

Grampian

• Aberdeen
• Aberdeenshire
• Moray

Highlands & Eilean Siar

• Na h-Eileanan Siar
• Highland

North West England

• Cumbria

Northern Ireland

• County Antrim
• County Armagh
• County Down
• County Fermanagh
• County Londonderry
• County Tyrone

Orkney & Shetland

• Orkney Islands
• Shetland Islands

SW Scotland, Lothian Borders

• Dumfries and Galloway
• East Lothian
• Edinburgh
• Midlothian Council
• Scottish Borders
• West Lothian

Strathclyde

• Argyll and Bute
• East Ayrshire
• East Dunbartonshire
• East Renfrewshire
• Glasgow
• Inverclyde
• North Ayrshire
• North Lanarkshire
• Renfrewshire
• South Ayrshire
• South Lanarkshire
• West Dunbartonshire

Wales

• Conwy
• Gwynedd
• Isle of Anglesey