UK weather forecast: Flood warning issued as powerful storm sweeps Britain

ramonas (25)in #news • 4 years ago

TORRENTIAL rainfall is set to batter the UK this week, with the Met Office issuing a flood alert as Hurricane Epsilon continues to affect Britain.
Heavy downpours could lead to flooding in some regions of Britain, causing travel disruption. According to the Met Office, deep or fast-flowing floodwaters in some areas of the country could pose a danger to life.
The Met Office warning reads: "Periods of heavy rain are expected to develop across Wales and northwest England during Thursday and Friday.

"Accumulations of 1.2 to 1.6 inches (30mm to 40mm) can be expected widely, whilst areas of higher ground exposed to strong southwesterly winds are likely to see 2 to 2.4 inches (50mm to 80mm).

"The heaviest rainfall, however, is expected to be across the hills and mountains of northwest Wales where four to 5.1 inches (100mm to 130mm) of rainfall is possible by the end of Friday."

The regions affected by the new weather warnings are located across north-west England, Yorkshire and number and Wales.
The new forecast comes after the National Hurricane Centre (NHC) has said although Hurricane Epsilon has now been declared a "post-tropical cyclone", it still remains a "very powerful and dangerous storm" until it is absorbed by another "large extratropical low pressure system over the north-eastern Atlantic".

In Met Office’s daily forecast, Aidan McGivern said: “The weather looking very autumnal this week.

“Breezy with showers on and off rain or longer spells of wet weather as Atlantic weather fronts move through and there will be plenty of atlantic weather coming our way.”

He added: “Temperatures are going to be falling away two to six degrees generally, perhaps close to freezing in northeast Scotland with lighter winds here by the end of the night.

4 years ago in #news by ramonas (25)

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