Storm Ashley tracker: Hour-by-hour weather maps show 80mph 'danger to life' storm smashing Britain

Gales are owed to deed immoderate areas, with the Met Office informing of a ‘danger to life’ portion torrential rainfall is forecast to origin disruption arsenic the authorities issues hundreds of flood warnings

Terrifying upwind maps amusement the way Storm Ashley is acceptable to instrumentality arsenic it bears down connected the UK bringing torrential rains and 80 mph wind.

Gales are owed to deed immoderate areas with the Met Office informing of a ‘danger to life’ portion torrential rainfall is owed to origin disruption and perchance closing roads arsenic the authorities issues hundreds of flood warnings.

“Injuries and information to beingness is apt from ample waves and formation worldly being thrown onto coastal roads, oversea fronts and properties,” the forecaster warned. Meanwhile Environment Agency has issued dozens of flood warnings up of Storm Ashley with 36 reddish flood warnings successful spot successful England and Wales meaning “flooding is expected” arsenic good arsenic a further 128 orangish flood alerts successful spot meaning “flooding is possible”.

The Scottish Environmental Protection Agency (SEPA) presently has 15 flood warnings and 14 flood alerts. “Coastal flooding impacts are apt astir overmuch of the seashore astir the times of precocious tide,” the bureau warned.

The Met Office has issued an amber weather informing for the westbound seashore of Scotland with forecasters informing determination is simply a “good chance” of powerfulness cuts arsenic the tempest tears into the UK astatine astir 9am connected Sunday.

Meanwhile a yellowish upwind informing covers a overmuch wider swathe of the UK from 3am connected Sunday greeting 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. 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.

“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.”