Weather maps amusement the staggering speeds of Storm Ashley arsenic it batters the UK with torrential rainfall and winds of up to 80mph.
Horrid conditions person deed England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, with gales hitting immoderate areas aft the Met Office issued a informing of a "danger to life" to immoderate people. Hundreds of flood warnings person besides been issued and immoderate roads closed. A yellowish upwind informing has covered overmuch of the UK and came into spot successful the aboriginal hours of this morning. There was a informing of harm to buildings, powerfulness cuts and injuries, and information to beingness from the precocious velocity winds.
Weather maps amusement the tempest vortex moving crossed the Atlantic battering the westbound seashore of Ireland and Northern Ireland earlier the tempest makes successful beingness felt successful Britain, arsenic good arsenic the precocious speeds winds are meant to deed today.
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Emma Trimble / SWNS)As the centre of the tempest moves northbound and west, precocious winds volition whip the UK with gusts of up to 80mph successful Scotland portion Wales is forecast to spot gusts of up to 65 mph with akin windspeeds successful northbound westbound England. The winds are acceptable to get stronger passim the time earlier dissipating connected Monday.
Met Office Deputy Chief Meteorologist Tony Wisson, said: “Storm Ashley volition bring beardown winds for astir of the UK connected Sunday earlier it clears connected Monday, with a accidental of immoderate disruption crossed parts of Scotland, Northern Ireland, Northwest England and West Wales.
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Emma Trimble / SWNS)“A play of particularly beardown winds are expected connected Sunday day and evening successful occidental Scotland, wherever gusts could perchance scope 70-80mph successful exposed areas and an Amber informing for winds has been issued here.
"More mostly 50-60 mph are imaginable successful immoderate inland areas successful different parts of the informing area, particularly Northern Ireland and occidental Scotland, and possibly up to 60-70 mph on exposed coasts and hills. These beardown winds successful conjunction with precocious outpouring tides, whitethorn origin immoderate disruption.”
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Emma Trimble / SWNS)The Environment Agency issued a caller batch of 38 weather warnings with the tempest expected to batter the UK with winds of up to 80mph and wide flooding. Several places crossed England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are being told determination is simply a uncommon "danger to life" informing arsenic a effect of large coastal waves and escaped formation material.
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BNPS)The storm, which was named by Met Eireann arsenic it's expected to deed the Republic of Ireland first, volition beryllium astir terrible crossed Scotland's westbound coast, which is wherever the howling 80mph gusts volition beryllium seen. There is besides a "good chance" of powerfulness cuts successful the area.
Among those areas which person been issued the reddish warnings are the Cumbrian coastline, Mersey Estuary, the River Severn, River Trent, Southern Cornwall coast, Tidal Fal Estuary and Wye Estuary.
Flood warnings successful effect
- Cumbrian coastline astatine Barrow successful Furness, astir Biggar, Rampside and Vickerstown
- Cumbrian coastline astatine Barrow successful Furness, betwixt North and South Walney, Cavendish and Ramsden Docks
- Cumbrian coastline astatine North Morecambe Bay, on the seashore from Roosebeck to Carnforth
- Cumbrian coastline from Gretna to Silloth, betwixt Longtown and Skinburness
- Cumbrian coastline from Gretna to Silloth including Port Carlisle, Skinburness and Rockcliffe
- Cumbrian coastline from Silloth to St Bees, betwixt Allonby and Whitehaven
- Cumbrian coastline from Silloth to St Bees including Maryport, Flimby, Workington and Whitehaven
- Cumbrian coastline from St Bees Head to Haverigg, on the seashore from North Head to Haverigg
- Mersey Estuary astatine Arpley Bridge, Warrington
- River Severn astatine Abbots Court, Deerhurst
- River Severn astatine Apperley and The Leigh
- River Severn astatine Bushley
- River Severn astatine Chaceley and Haw Bridge
- River Severn astatine Clifton and Severn Stoke
- River Severn astatine Court Meadow, Kempsey and Callow End
- River Severn astatine East Waterside, Upton upon Severn
- River Severn astatine Hampton Loade and Highley
- River Severn astatine Hanley Castle, Rectory Road successful Upton upon Severn and Saxons Lode
- River Severn astatine Hanley Road, Upton upon Severn
- River Severn astatine Hawford Wood and Bevere
- River Severn astatine Ironbridge and Jackfield
- River Severn astatine Pitchcroft, North Worcester
- River Severn astatine Quatford
- River Severn astatine Sandhurst and Maisemore
- River Severn astatine Severn Ham, Tewkesbury
- River Severn astatine Tewkesbury
- River Severn successful North Worcester
- River Severn successful South Worcester
- River Severn Sandy Lane and Severnside, Stourport
- River Trent astatine Alkborough Flats
- South Cornwall seashore astatine Mounts Bay, seafront properties
- South Cornwall seashore from Gribbin Head to Rame Head
- South Cornwall seashore from Lands End to Lizard Point excluding Mounts Bay
- South Cornwall seashore from Lizard Point to Gribbin Head excluding the Tidal Fal Estuary
- Tidal Fal Estuary
- Wye Estuary astatine Brockweir