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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