Storm Ashley map shows where UK will be battered by 80mph ‘danger to life’ winds

Weather warnings for upwind and rain person travel into effect arsenic parts of the UK are deed by Storm Ashley.

Heavy rainfall and 80mph winds are predicted successful places with the archetypal named storm of the play ‘likely’ to bring a menace of injuries and information to life, the Met Office has said.

A yellowish informing for upwind came into spot for the entirety of Scotland and Northern Ireland and parts of north-west England and Wales astatine 3am and runs until midnight connected Sunday.

An amber informing for the north-west of Scotland has been issued from 9am until midnight with the upwind work informing ‘injuries and information to beingness is apt from ample waves and formation worldly being thrown onto coastal roads, oversea fronts and properties’.

Met Office meteorologist Dan Stroud said ‘very strong, terrible gales’ connected Sunday coincide with precocious outpouring tides, which could besides effect successful ‘very ample waves’.

The northbound of Scotland volition stay nether a yellowish informing for upwind from midnight until 9am connected Monday.

Further south, the Met Office has issued a yellowish informing for the south-west of England and South Wales until midday connected Sunday with a menace of disruption to question with flooding and imaginable interruptions to powerfulness supplies.

Mr Stroud said strong, gale unit winds are owed to proceed done to Monday greeting meaning ‘fallen debris and trees’ could interaction commuters astatine the commencement of the week.

Road users successful Scotland person been advised to debar unnecessary question wherever possible, portion Sunday’s yearly Great South Run successful Portsmouth, Hampshire, has been cancelled due to the fact that of weather-related information concerns.

Police Scotland person advised motorists to ‘plan up and debar unnecessary question wherever possible’ up of the ‘strong likelihood’ of disruption connected roads, portion Transport Scotland has warned of apt delays to nationalist transport, including the country’s ferry network.

Chief Superintendent Hilary Sloan, Police Scotland’s caput of roadworthy policing, said: “Make definite your conveyance has capable substance and is wholly roadworthy, with tyre unit and tread gathering ineligible requirements.

‘Ensure your mobile telephone is afloat charged successful the lawsuit you request to telephone for assistance and if it is apt you whitethorn beryllium wrong your conveyance for agelong periods of time, instrumentality further covering and h2o with you.’

Ferry relation CalMac said galore of its services connected the westbound seashore of Scotland had been cancelled for the time connected Sunday with respective others liable to beryllium disrupted.

The Met Office said Sunday volition beryllium a ‘widely windy day’ with storm-force winds successful the northwest.

Rain volition dispersed eastwards up of sunny spells, but with gusty winds moving eastbound during the afternoon.

Meteorologist Ellie Glaisyer said: ‘Parts of occidental Scotland could spot gusts of 70-80mph during the afternoon. It volition crook drier and brighter crossed overmuch of England and Wales with immoderate sunny spells during the afternoon.’

Winds are expected to easiness connected Monday with rainfall moving into the southbound east. The northbound is expected to remaining blustery for overmuch of the week.

The Environment Agency’s website listed 41 progressive flood warnings connected Sunday morning, meaning flooding is expected, and 132 flood alerts, meaning flooding is possible.

The warnings see aggregate areas of the River Severn, the southbound Cornwall seashore and the Wye Estuary.

Natural Resources Wales said determination are 3 flood warnings and 13 flood alerts successful place, portion 16 flood warnings person been issued by the Scottish Environment Protection Agency on with 17 alerts.

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