Flooding likely as Met Office issues new amber warning

The Met Office has issued severe upwind warnings for upwind and rainfall crossed galore parts of the UK, including an amber informing for rainfall crossed overmuch of southbound Wales, wherever immoderate flooding and question disruption is expected.

Winds of much than 70mph (112km/h) person besides been recorded successful parts of Wales and Scotland, adding to the interaction connected question connected Sunday.

In southbound Wales, areas severely deed by Storm Bert successful November are among those present covered by the Met Office amber upwind informing for rain.

With the informing valid until 06:00 GMT connected Monday, the Met Office expects betwixt 50mm and 100mm of rainfall whitethorn autumn during this period.

In summation to question disruption, they besides pass that flooding has the imaginable to beryllium a "danger to life", that homes and businesses whitethorn go flooded and immoderate communities could go chopped off.

Yellow upwind warnings for rainfall person besides been issued much wide crossed the country.

Yellow warnings for rainfall are successful spot for the Lake District until 19:00 connected Sunday and the confederate fractional of Wales and southwest England until 08:00 connected Monday.

Some 20mm to 50mm of rainfall (0.8 to 2in) could autumn during the people of the warnings, with up to 100mm (4in) imaginable connected south-facing hills. This whitethorn pb to localised flooding, question and powerfulness proviso issues.

There were precocious winds connected Sunday with gusts reaching 77mph (124km/h) astatine Capel Curig (Gwynedd) and 74mph (119km/h) astatine South Uist (Western Isles), starring to question disruption successful immoderate areas.

Yellow warnings for upwind had been successful unit connected Sunday, including 1 crossed a ample country of Scotland and England but expired astatine 18:00.

The upwind for overmuch of the period truthful acold has been dominated by an country of precocious unit stuck implicit cardinal and bluish Europe.

This prevented rain-bearing Atlantic upwind systems from reaching america and was besides liable for the continuous influx of acold aerial from the east, which kept daytime temperatures beneath mean for this clip of year.

However, precocious we person seen different surge of frigid arctic aerial crossed Canada and the US which has helped occurrence up a beardown pitchy watercourse crossed the Atlantic.

While the pitchy watercourse volition weaken adjacent week, we volition inactive spot our upwind travel successful from the Atlantic, alternatively than from Europe.

This volition pb to reasonably changeable conditions and temperatures person to the seasonal mean of 7 to 10 Celsius (45 to 50F). On the clearer nights we volition besides spot the instrumentality of a frost successful places.