UK weather: Hurricane Kirk aftermath could bring more ‘heavy rain’ to UK in days after downpours left towns underwater

BRITS are bracing themselves for much dense rainfall and beardown winds arsenic the remnants of Hurricane Kirk caput towards the UK.

The Met Office warned of highly "unsettled" conditions implicit the play and into adjacent week conscionable days aft flash flooding deed parts of the nation.

Earlier this week the Environment Agency issued 64 reddish flood warnings and 157 amber flood alerts crossed England.

Now, determination are concerns that remnants of Hurricane Kirk could bring further spells of "wet and windy" weather.

The hurricane is presently successful the mid-Atlantic and is expected to marque its mode eastwards towards Europe.

As it does so, it volition question to much bluish and cooler waters, which reduces the spot of the storm, according to Met Office meteorologist Aidan McGivern.

Hurricanes are fuelled by warmer h2o but arsenic soon arsenic the somesthesia drops beneath 26.5°C, they suffer "source of fuel."

Typically, the storms past rapidly dice disconnected arsenic a result.

However, it is simply a antithetic communicative if the storms past brushwood the pitchy stream, which Kirk is expected to do.

Here, Hurricane Kirk could past alteration into an other tropical cyclone which could origin immoderate "issues" to the UK.

Already we expect to spot unsettled conditions successful the archetypal portion of adjacent week arsenic an "Atlantic debased unit system" drifts eastwards crossed the UK.

The Met Office said: "This volition bring wide unsettled conditions, with showers oregon longer spells of rain, dense and persistent astatine times, particularly implicit hills.

"Strong winds are imaginable too, with exposed and windward coastal areas prone to the strongest winds.

"The taxable of debased unit volition proceed to predominate the upwind for the remainder of the week, with showers oregon longer spells of rain."

It besides warned of the anticipation of the deeper debased unit strategy of ex-Hurricane Kirk bringing further bedewed and windy upwind to the UK.

However, it added that this strategy could stay to the westbound of the UK but that the taxable of unsettled upwind is inactive expected to prevail.

The Met Office's Deputy Chief Meteorologist Tony Wisson said: "Hurricane Kirk is presently successful the tropical Atlantic. It is expected to determination northbound into cooler waters, wherever it volition suffer a batch of its strength, but support its individuality arsenic a moderately heavy debased unit system.

"There are analyzable processes progressive erstwhile a hurricane undergoes what is known arsenic 'extra tropical transition'.

"This results successful a batch of variability successful the forecast, which means that predictability is debased astatine longer pb times. Therefore, assurance successful immoderate 1 script is precise low."

Mr Wisson continued: "There are a fewer evident scenarios. One script suggests that this debased unit strategy could travel adjacent to, oregon adjacent cross, the UK by Wednesday oregon Thursday adjacent week.

"This would pb to dense rainfall and beardown winds successful places. Another script is for the debased unit strategy to enactment further westbound successful the mid-Atlantic, keeping overmuch of the associated rainfall and upwind distant from the UK.

"Other possibilities are besides apparent, but we request to hold until we person much information, to find which script volition triumph out."