Storm Bert brings disruption with 82mph gusts

Weather warnings person been issued for Wales and different parts of the UK with Storm Bert causing disruption.

Described arsenic a "multi-hazard event", the tempest has brought dense rain, snowfall and beardown winds.

The Met Office said gusts of up to 60mph (96km/hr) were expected inland and up to 70mph (113km/hr) on coastal areas. People person besides been advised to hole for imaginable flooding, compounded by melting snow, with up to 150mm (6in) of rainfall imaginable successful immoderate areas.

About 1,300 properties person been near without powerfulness successful southbound and westbound Wales, according to the National Grid. A informing for dense rainfall is successful spot crossed Wales, with a abstracted alert for beardown winds astir the Welsh coast.

Met Office main meteorologist Jason Kelly said: "Storm Bert is what we telephone a multi-hazard event, bringing snow, rainfall and upwind to the UK for the bulk of the weekend.

"It's expected to make during Saturday greeting crossed the southwest, becoming peculiarly dense and persistent overnight and into Sunday."

He said 50-75mm (2-2.9in) of "particularly dense and persistent rainfall is expected to autumn reasonably wide and the accelerated melting of lying snowfall implicit the play whitethorn bring flooding for some".

• A yellowish weather informing for rain is successful unit crossed Wales until 06:00 connected Sunday
• A yellowish weather informing for beardown winds is successful unit until 21:00 connected Sunday for Anglesey, Bridgend, Cardiff, Carmarthenshire, Ceredigion, Conwy, Gwynedd, Neath Port Talbot, Pembrokeshire, Powys, Rhondda Cynon Taf, Swansea and Vale of Glamorgan
• An amber warning for dense snow is successful unit crossed Scotland and bluish England

Some obstruction services person already been disrupted.

The Conwy Valley and Heart of Wales lines - which tally from Llandudno to Blaenau Ffestiniog and Swansea to Shropshire, via Carmarthenshire and Powys, respectively - volition beryllium closed connected Saturday and Sunday due to the fact that of the storm's expected impact.

Replacement roadworthy transport volition beryllium successful spot for the duration.

Other lines are truthful acold operating arsenic normal, but passengers person been advised to cheque earlier they travelled.

On the roads, the M48 Severn Bridge has been closed successful some directions owed to beardown winds.

And velocity restrictions are successful spot connected the A55 Britannia Bridge betwixt Anglesey and the mainland.

Irish Ferries' Saturday crossings betwixt Pembroke Dock and Rosslare person been cancelled and Stena Line's services betwixt Fishguard and Rosslare.