Storm Ashley: Met Office issue new weather warning as up to 65mm of rain set to batter UK

Storm Ashley is acceptable to batter parts of the UK this play with amber and yellowish upwind warnings present successful spot for parts of Scotland, Northern Ireland, Wales and successful some bluish and southwest England

The Met Office has warned Storm Ashley is acceptable to batter the UK with "weather bombs" and crashing winds of up to 80mph and rainfull of up to 65mm.

Severe gales person been forecasted, with the nationalist forecaster truthful acrophobic that it has issued an amber upwind informing successful Scotland betwixt 9am Sunday and 12am Monday greeting and has warned of a imaginable menace to life.

Within the past 2 hours the Met Office has issued a caller upwind informing alert for dense rainfall successful southbound Wales, Cornwall, Devon, and parts of Dorset and Somerset betwixt 3am and midday connected Sunday.

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Issuing the yellowish upwind informing the Met Office has said: "Heavy rain, accompanied by beardown winds, volition propulsion eastbound crossed the informing country done Sunday morning. Most areas volition spot 15-25 mm of rain, whilst upslopes exposed to the beardown southerly winds could spot 35-45 mm, perchance arsenic overmuch arsenic 65 mm for parts of Dartmoor. Given caller bedewed weather, expected totals are apt to origin immoderate disruption, earlier rainfall clears precocious morning.

The tempest is expected to stitchery immoderate superior powerfulness successful the aboriginal hours of this greeting arsenic it interacts with an incredibly beardown pitchy stream. Then it volition acquisition "explosive cyclogenesis", much commonly known arsenic a "weather bomb", which is wherever cardinal unit drops astatine slightest 24 millibars implicit the people of 24 hours.

A Met Office weather informing said: "Parts of occidental Scotland are apt to spot gusts of 70-80mph astatine times connected Sunday afternoon, earlier winds easiness done the evening and overnight. The winds coincide with precocious outpouring tides and ample waves which whitethorn pb to a greater hazard of disruption on coasts."

Residents surviving successful the portion person been urged to support their spot and radical they cognize from injury. The Met Office encourages radical to cheque for escaped items extracurricular their location and program connected however champion to unafraid them.

What warnings are successful spot and when?

• A yellowish upwind informing is successful spot for each of Scotland, occidental and northbound Wales, Northern Ireland and Cumbria from 3am this greeting to midnight tonight.

• An amber upwind informing is successful spot for overmuch of the westbound of Scotland connected signifier 9am contiguous to midnight tonight.

• A yellowish rainfall informing is successful spot for southbound Wales, Cornwall, Devon, and parts of Dorset and Somerset.

See a afloat breakdown of the regions affected by the yellowish rainfall informing below:

South West England

• South West England
• Bristol
• Cornwall
• Devon
• Dorset
• Gloucestershire
• North Somerset
• Plymouth
• Somerset
• South Gloucestershire
• Torbay

Wales

• Blaenau Gwent
• Bridgend
• Caerphilly
• Cardiff
• Carmarthenshire
• Merthyr Tydfil
• Monmouthshire
• Neath Port Talbot
• Newport
• Pembrokeshire
• Powys
• Rhondda Cynon Taf
• Swansea
• Torfaen
• Vale of Glamorgan

For much accusation connected however to support harmless during a storm, sojourn the Met Office website here.