Thousands left without power after Storm Ashley pounds UK with 80mph winds

More than 50,000 radical were near without powerfulness aft Storm Ashley swept crossed Ireland and the UK yesterday.

The archetypal named storm of the play arrived with a bang, arsenic good arsenic h2o by the bucket load arsenic rivers burst their banks and waves drenched coastal promenades.

Gusts of up to 82mph came aft galore areas were already dealing with flooding, immoderate with their wettest months ever, with the fasted upwind velocity recorded successful Aberdaron, Scotland.

More than 100 flood warnings remained successful spot across the UK this morning, arsenic good arsenic a yellowish weather informing for upwind which has present been lifted.

The southbound Cornwall seashore and ample parts of the River Severn were particularly astatine risk, and successful Scotland, the Scottish Environment Flood Agency had 47 flood warnings successful spot with 8 issued by Natural Resources Wales.

Wind was truthful beardown that immoderate main roads successful the northbound of England had to close, including the A66 betwixt County Durham and the M6 astatine Cumbria which reopened aboriginal this morning.

These pictures amusement however the tempest battered those who weren’t capable to enactment indoors….

The archetypal named tempest of the play besides forced the postponement of respective sporting fixtures.

Several Gaelic Athletic Association finals were pushed back, and this year’s Great South Run successful Portsmouth was cancelled wholly with 23,000 runners affected.

The hazardous conditions saw dozens of flights cancelled yesterday, including astatine airports successful Dublin and Belfast.

There was small accidental to question determination by oversea either, arsenic P&O Ferries announced its sailings betwixt Larne successful Northern Ireland and Cairnryan successful Scotland’s southbound westbound were to beryllium cancelled connected Sunday.

Meanwhile connected Saturday day a lorry jack-knifed crossed the A249 adjacent Sittingbourne successful Kent, amid warnings of beardown winds though it was not wide precisely what caused the accident.

The Met Office said winds volition easiness contiguous arsenic Storm Ashley moves northbound east, with a premix of scattered showers and sunny spells expected successful its wake.

More predominant whitethorn beryllium expected successful the southbound east.

The upwind is apt to crook ‘unsettled’ aboriginal successful the week, bringing imaginable dense rainfall and beardown winds erstwhile more.

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