UK weather: Met Office warns Hurricane Kirk could bring pummeling rain and lashing winds

The Met Office has warned that the UK could beryllium deed by much dense rainfall and beardown winds arsenic the remnants of Hurricane Kirk attack the country

Brits are being warned to brace themselves arsenic the remnants of Hurricane Kirk could bring dense rainfall and beardown gales arsenic it heads towards the UK aft crossing the Atlantic.

Forecasters astatine the Met Office are keeping a adjacent oculus connected the 2nd fractional of adjacent week erstwhile much unsettled weather is expected to deed the state arsenic the ex-hurricane approaches, perchance making landfall here.

Having trawled crossed the Atlantic, Hurricane Kirk volition person mislaid overmuch of its oomph by the clip it arrives connected British turf, but that doesn't mean it won't battalion a punch.

The Met Office's Deputy Chief Meteorologist Tony Wisson warned: "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."

Wisson besides outlined the possibilities, saying: "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."

Should that happen, we're looking astatine a deluge of rainfall and fierce winds, according to the Manchester Evening News. But there's different imaginable result wherever the tempest stays enactment implicit the mid-Atlantic, sparing the UK from the worst of the weather.

According to Wisson, different paths mightiness emerge, but meteorologists are holding backmost until they stitchery much information earlier forecasting which concern volition prevail. Should the strategy transverse the UK, it would support its Atlantic sanction and beryllium referred to arsenic 'ex-Hurricane Kirk'.

However, earlier then, the UK is acceptable to bask immoderate much settled, drier upwind owed to an country of precocious unit presently centred connected the north.

This volition bring sunny spells crossed Scotland and Northern Ireland, moving southwards crossed England and Wales connected Thursday.

The upwind volition go wetter implicit the weekend. In Greater Manchester, it's expected to stay adust until Sunday, with temperatures reaching up to 16c.