Met Office Storm Isha 20/01/24

Met Office

Heavy rain and gales in places, with damaging and disruptive gusts likely – Bringing you today’s forecast on Storm Isha is Greg Dewhurst.

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00:00 Hello there and welcome to your latest update on Storm Esher, which is going to bring some

00:05 very strong and damaging gusts of wind as well as some heavy rain across the country

00:10 later on Sunday and into Monday morning.

00:13 So looking at the bigger picture, powerful jet stream shooting across the Atlantic at

00:19 the moment is helping to deepen Esher over the next 24 hours and as this storm system

00:24 moves towards us, tight isobars across the UK indicating very strong and damaging gusts

00:29 of wind and it will also be combined with some heavy rain.

00:33 So expecting some disruption, particularly later on Sunday and into the start of Monday.

00:39 So let's take a look at the wind gusts in detail.

00:42 This is for midday on Sunday.

00:43 We can see gales just starting to develop around some western coasts, but as we play

00:48 the sequence through, we can see how widely across the UK we'll see gusts around 50 miles

00:53 an hour and then locally over the hills and around the coast, we could see 60, 70, perhaps

00:58 even 80 miles an hour as we head into the evening time, which is going to lead to some

01:02 disruption.

01:03 We could start to see the risk of some tiles being blown off roofs in places as well as

01:08 some large branches and possible trees coming down, which will then lead to some travel

01:12 disruption.

01:14 Then as we head into the early hours, the centre of Esher starts to cross northern Scotland.

01:17 We could see some very strong winds developing here, 70, 80 miles an hour or so.

01:23 Elsewhere, they do start to ease a little bit into the early hours, but a squeeze in

01:27 the isobars could give some very strong winds across south-east England as well, which takes

01:32 us then through into Monday morning.

01:34 The winds start to ease, still gusts of 30 to 40 miles an hour in places, but perhaps

01:40 a little bit less disruptive as we head towards lunchtime on Monday.

01:45 So looking at the rain in detail for Sunday, a bright start for many, but cloud in the

01:50 west.

01:51 This system quickly moves in and we see outbreaks of heavy rain pushing in.

01:55 This combined with the strong winds will lead to some tricky travelling conditions if you

01:59 are moving across the country through Sunday evening.

02:02 And then the system moves out of the way through into Monday, leaving a mixture of blustery

02:07 showers.

02:08 For the Monday morning commute, there'll be a lot of surface spray on the roads.

02:12 There could be some localised flooding in places too, so do take care on that side.

02:18 So looking at the warning details for Sunday and into Monday, we have rain warnings across

02:23 parts of Wales, north-west England, southern Scotland and central Scotland.

02:28 Some of this rain combined with snowmelt is likely to lead to some localised flooding

02:32 issues, so do stay tuned to your local radio and the Met Office forecast over the next

02:39 few days as the forecast does remain unsettled.

02:43 So then also taking a look at our wind warnings, well, a wind warning covers the whole of the

02:48 UK through Sunday and into Monday morning.

02:51 We could see gusts of 50 to 60 miles an hour quite widely and then locally 70 to 80 around

02:57 those exposed coasts and over the higher ground too.

03:00 The amber areas where the higher gusts are more likely, but we could see those stronger

03:05 winds in the yellow area too.

03:08 So do take care if you are travelling through Sunday evening in particular and overnight

03:12 into Monday.

03:14 Storm Aisha rattling in.

03:15 We could see some travel disruption across the UK, heavy rain leading to some flooding

03:21 in places too and those strong winds could lead to some disruption.

03:27 So a lot going on with Storm Aisha, so do stay tuned to the forecast over the coming

03:31 days.

03:32 See you soon.

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