Planes battle to land in 80mph Storm Ashley winds as ‘danger to life’ carnage sees flights cancelled & roads flooded

STORM Ashley is battering the UK, with residents facing a "danger to life" arsenic planes conflict to onshore successful 80mph winds and roads are flooded.

More than 100 flood warnings remained successful spot crossed the UK aft Storm Ashley made its beingness felt.

A yellowish upwind alert for wind, issued by the Met Office, was successful spot until 9am connected Monday crossed the northbound and eastbound of Scotland and the northeast of England.

Forecasters person warned Brits to beryllium cautious of beardown winds that could stroke tiny debris and make ample waves on oversea fronts.

The announcement warned travellers to brace for imaginable powerfulness cuts and longer travel times.

The archetypal named tempest of the play besides forced the postponement of respective sporting fixtures.

The Environment Agency had 45 flood warnings, wherever flooding is expected, successful spot crossed England, including on the southbound Cornwall seashore and ample parts of the River Severn.

A further 96 places were kept connected precocious alert overnight with imaginable flooding.

In Scotland, the Scottish Environment Flood Agency had 47 flood warnings successful spot with 8 issued by Natural Resources Wales.

Several roads successful the northbound of England, including the A66 betwixt County Durham and the M6 astatine Cumbria were reopened aboriginal Monday greeting aft being closed owed to beardown winds

Tens of thousands of homes remained without powerfulness connected Sunday nighttime aft Storm Ashley swept crossed the land of Ireland.

Dublin and the Irish westbound seashore besides experienced important outages connected Sunday night.

The fig without powerfulness had been 53,000 earlier successful the day.

The hazardous conditions saw dozens of flights cancelled connected Sunday, including astatine airports successful Dublin and Belfast.

Planes were captured battling 80mph winds arsenic they tried to onshore astatine Dublin Airport.

The highest upwind gust was recorded successful Aberdaron, reaching a whopping 82 mph.

Travellers astatine Leeds Bradford Airport person experienced formation cancellations and diversions owed to the upwind warnings.

The Met Office revealed that winds volition easiness somewhat arsenic Storm Ashley moves northeast connected Monday, bringing a premix of scattered showers and sunny spells successful its aftermath.

The upwind is apt to crook "unsettled" aboriginal successful the week, bringing imaginable dense rainfall and beardown winds erstwhile more.

On Friday, relation P&O Ferries announced its sailings betwixt Larne successful Northern Ireland and Cairnryan successful Scotland's southbound westbound were to beryllium cancelled connected Sunday.