UK weather: Met Office map shows exactly where and when Storm Ashley will batter Britain

As Storm Ashley approaches the UK the Met bureau representation shows precisely erstwhile and wherever it volition arrive. Weather warnings are successful spot for parts of the state and forecasters expect harm successful immoderate areas

The afloat unit of quality successful the signifier of Storm Ashley is astir to unleash itself connected the UK - and this upwind representation shows precisely wherever it volition land. Furious winds of implicit 80mph are forecast to batter parts of the state aboriginal connected Sunday morning.

By midday, northernmost parts of the UK volition beryllium lying straight successful its path. Amber and Yellow National Severe Weather Warnings for upwind are presently successful spot for Sunday and Monday. The Joint Cyclone Centre has warned it could scope the spot of a class 3 hurricane, causing immense winds of 110mph.

The Met Office has provided an hour-by-hour forecast of wherever it volition onshore and the spot of its mighty gusts. The storm, named by the Irish Met Office, has been tracking crossed the Atlantic for the past 24 hours, picking up velocity arsenic it interacts with pitchy watercourse and hurtles towards the British Isles.

By Saturday evening Ashley has go a almighty storm, the unit intensifying rapidly arsenic it approaches the UK. By 7am it is forecast to beryllium sat to the North East of the British Isles producing perchance damaging gusts crossed the republic of Ireland and Northern Island.

By Sunday, bluish parts of England, northbound Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland could spot immoderate damaging blows. Offshore winds could beryllium implicit 90mph and perchance 100mph earlier hitting land.

The worst of the upwind is apt to engulf Scotland betwixt midday and evening earlier clearing distant from the seashore astatine astir 9am connected Monday. Glasgow, Edinburgh, Aberdeen volition each beryllium successful its path.

Yellow upwind warnings are successful spot for inland Scotland and a much terrible Amber informing for the northbound westbound fringes of Scotland, including Stornoway, and further northbound astatine Lerwick. This is wherever gusts are expected to beryllium astir 80mph.

Parts of England, including Newcastle and Manchester, volition flight the worst but whitethorn drawback the edges of the storm.

The upwind volition coincide with precocious tides successful immoderate places bringing the imaginable for ample unsafe waves. There is besides the hazard of harm being caused to buildings, powerfulness and question disruption, says the Met office.

Head of Transport Resilience astatine Transport Scotland, Ashleigh Robson, said: “Storm Ashley is acceptable to bring wide disruption for question connected Sunday and into Monday. Passengers should surely cheque with their operator, and with immoderate families disconnected enjoying the October schoolhouse holidays, we would counsel them to play adjacent attraction to immoderate cross-border question updates too.

“The Multi Agency Response Team volition beryllium successful presumption to instrumentality decisions, oversee the network, and counsel the nationalist and update Ministers implicit the play arsenic the tempest sweeps into parts of Scotland.

“The beardown winds whitethorn origin peculiar difficulties for HGVs and we would impulse drivers to instrumentality enactment of the conditions, debris connected the roads and trees falling onto immoderate roads is simply a beardown possibility. The forecasted rainfall volition marque visibility hard erstwhile driving and could effect successful immoderate localised flooding.

“Disruption connected ferry services is precise likely, obstruction services and flights whitethorn besides beryllium impacted. Please cheque with you transport relation for the latest information. The determination to cancel services is ne'er taken lightly, but information of passengers has to beryllium the priority. Please program ahead. The latest accusation connected the trunk roadworthy web is ever disposable astatine www.traffic.gov.scot.”

Winds volition easiness arsenic Storm Ashley pulls distant to the eastbound connected Monday leaving a premix of sunny spells and scattered showers for many. Next week remains unsettled with immoderate longer spells of rainfall successful places.