.png)
3 days ago
1
Brits person been warned to brace for a play of chaos arsenic Storm Bert brings "disruptive" snow, dense rainfall and beardown winds to respective UK towns and cities.
The bulk of the state is facing astatine slightest 1 weather informing implicit the weekend, with Scotland and bluish England acceptable to carnivore the brunt of the storm. According to the Met Office, Storm Bert volition descend connected Saturday - bringing dense rainfall and snow, unneurotic with beardown winds to ample swathes of the country.
It comes arsenic a fig of schools person been forced to adjacent this week arsenic frosty and icy conditions situation towns and cities successful the northbound up of the chaos. Weather warnings are present successful spot each time until Sunday.
An amber alert for dense snowfall and crystal volition beryllium successful unit from 7am until 5pm connected Saturday successful an country northbound of Scotland’s cardinal belt. Snow arsenic precocious arsenic 10-20cm is apt connected crushed supra 200 metres, and could emergence to arsenic overmuch arsenic 20-40cm connected hills supra 400 metres.
Image:
Ioannis Alexopoulos/LNP)Power cuts and question disruption are likely, with a bully accidental immoderate agrarian communities could adjacent beryllium chopped off, forecasters say.
From Saturday greeting to Sunday morning, a yellowish upwind informing for snowfall and rainfall successful place, informing residents successful overmuch of Scotland, north-east and north-west England, the West Midlands and Yorkshire that determination whitethorn beryllium a information to beingness arsenic snowfall rapidly thaws to rain. In south-west England and Wales, much than 100mm of rainfall is expected to autumn connected higher ground.
More warnings volition travel into spot on Saturday greeting as Storm Bert makes its mode crossed the UK. Met Office Deputy Chief Meteorologist Dan Holley said: “Storm Bert marks a displacement to overmuch milder aerial and wintry hazards volition gradually diminish done the weekend, but dense snowfall is expected crossed parts of bluish England and Scotland for a clip connected Saturday, particularly implicit higher ground, and warnings are successful place.
“Heavy rainfall done Saturday and Sunday, particularly successful confederate and occidental parts of the UK, volition besides bring impacts for immoderate with a fig of warnings successful place. We expect 50-75 mm of rainfall rather wide wrong the informing areas, but successful excess of 100 mm is imaginable implicit precocious crushed successful parts of Wales and southwest England.
“In addition, accelerated melting of lying snowfall implicit the play and periods of beardown winds are apt to exacerbate impacts and bring the imaginable for question disruption, arsenic good arsenic flooding for some.”
Image:
Ioannis Alexopoulos/LNP)14 UK regions to beryllium deed by Storm Bert - and when
Amber alert for snowfall and crystal - Saturday, 7am - 5pm
Regions and section authorities affected:
- Central, Tayside & Fife
- Grampian
- Highlands & Eilean Siar
- Strathclyde
Yellow warnings for upwind - Saturday, 5am - 7pm
Regions and section authorities affected:
- Central, Tayside & Fife
- Grampian
- Highlands & Eilean Siar
- North East England
- North West England
- Northern Ireland
- SW Scotland, Lothian Borders
- Strathclyde
- Wales
- Yorkshire & Humber
- Highlands & Eilean Siar
- Northern Ireland
Yellow informing for Rain and snowfall - Saturday 4am until Sunday 9am
Regions and section authorities affected:
- Central, Tayside & Fife
- East Midlands
- Grampian
- Highlands & Eilean Siar
- North East England
- North West England
- SW Scotland, Lothian Borders
- Strathclyde
- West Midlands
- Yorkshire & Humber
Yellow warnings for rainfall - Saturday, 6am until Sunday, 6am
Regions and section authorities affected:
- Wales
- West Midlands
- London & South East England
- South West England
.png "indianexpress.")
.png "khaleejtimes")
.png "arabnews")
.png "gulfnews"){kind=logo}
English (US) · 
Hindi (IN) ·