Storm Bert tracker map shows when and where it will hit UK

The 2nd named tempest of the season, Bert, is hurtling towards the UK with a play of bitter weather successful store.

Snow, dense rain, and 70mph winds are expected successful assorted parts of the state from Saturday morning.

Yellow warnings for snow, rainfall and upwind volition beryllium successful spot from 4am time until astatine slightest 9am connected Sunday crossed occidental and bluish England, Wales and Scotland, with amber alerts successful parts of Scotland.

The unrecorded upwind tracker from windy.com beneath shows upwind formations successful real-time.

Set by default to visualise winds, the representation connected Friday greeting showed Storm Bert’s fronts forming implicit the Atlantic, astir fractional mode betwixt Cornwall and Newfoundland.

The representation tin besides beryllium utilized to amusement forecasted developments, with a cyclone-like enactment forming westbound of Ireland overnight and heading eastwards towards the UK.

Storm Bert’s tails are owed to deed Ireland astir midnight earlier making landfall successful Britain successful the aboriginal hours connected Saturday.

The tempest volition propulsion successful a northeastern direction, clearing the UK by Monday morning.

Up to 75mm of rainfall is expected successful the southbound and westbound implicit the weekend, portion Wales and southwest England could person up to 100mm, forecasters said.

However temperatures are expected to emergence importantly arsenic milder aerial blows in.

It follows freezing temperatures implicit the week, with yellowish warnings for snowfall and crystal successful spot crossed the UK until precocious connected Friday morning.

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.’

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