Concerning maps person shown wherever successful the UK will look snowfall this weekend, successful immoderate places conscionable hours aft the worst of Storm Eowyn has passed.
The Met Office has been forced to contented respective upwind warnings for contiguous and Saturday. Friday has warnings for snow, rainfall and wind, covering the full country. Two highly uncommon reddish warnings for upwind are successful spot connected Friday for upwind successful some Northern Ireland and Scotland , covering Belfast, Glasgow and Edinburgh.
On Saturday, the snowfall volition proceed successful immoderate places successful Scotland and bluish England. The astir volition beryllium successful the Highlands, wherever respective cms are feared and could origin question disruption for those travelling connected the day. Cities successful England, including Newcastle, Leeds and Liverpool could besides person immoderate flurries.
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wx charts)On Sunday, the snowfall volition determination a small further southbound covering overmuch of the northbound west, arsenic good arsenic into Wales and Northern Ireland. Mark Nash, Duty Manager astatine National Highways, said: “We are expecting precocious winds and rainfall to deed astir parts of the state aboriginal this week.
“If you're readying to thrust implicit the adjacent fewer days, hole successful beforehand for the travel and instrumentality other attraction connected the roads. If weather conditions go challenging, set your driving behaviour to negociate the conditions arsenic safely arsenic possible.”
Today is acceptable to bring nightmare upwind conditions to respective places. Brits person been warned of the imaginable for winds which could origin harm to buildings, arsenic good arsenic powerfulness cuts.
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wx charts)Met Office Chief Meteorologist Paul Gundersen said: “We reserve the issuing of Red Warnings for the astir terrible upwind which represents a apt information to beingness and terrible disruption, and that is the lawsuit with Storm Éowyn.
“While it volition beryllium wide precise windy connected Friday, with further hazards from rainfall and snow, the strongest winds and astir important impacts are apt successful Northern Ireland and cardinal and southwestern parts of Scotland wrong the Red Warning areas, wherever winds could gust 80-90 mph rather wide for a time, and perchance up to 100 mph for exposed coasts successful particular.
“It’s important to enactment that adjacent those distant from the contiguous Red Warning areas volition inactive apt spot disruptive weather, with question plans apt to beryllium severely impacted, arsenic good arsenic the anticipation of powerfulness cuts for some.”
Today, Storm Éowyn is expected to transverse Northern Ireland aboriginal on. It volition past proceed northeast crossed the bluish fractional of Scotland during Friday day and is expected to beryllium centred adjacent Shetland during Friday evening.
Yellow and amber warnings screen the remainder of the country. The Met Office said: “Heavy rainfall associated with Storm Éowyn clears eastwards done Friday, with beardown winds continuing crossed the UK, these peculiarly damaging and disruptive for Northern Ireland and parts of Scotland.