Weather report from Sheffield as city is battered by 58mph winds on the morning of August 23 during Storm Lillian.
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00:00Morning Sheffield, it's Alistair from the Sheffield Star. I'm here on, you know what, I'm going to get out of it.
00:09Er, slightly better. Morning Sheffield, it's Alistair from the Sheffield Star. I just wanted to get out of the key ring before I speak to you about this.
00:15As you can probably tell, it's extremely windy here in Sheffield this morning.
00:19As a result of a yellow weather warning, the wind has been issued by the Met Office and brought on by Storm Lillian.
00:24This is a weather warning that's going to be in place between 5am and 11am today.
00:28The winds of currently here at 7.30am in the morning are around 50mph, at least, up to 60mph.
00:34I've got to find a spot where I can get out of it in one sec.
00:37Huh, that'll do it. Sweet, yeah, we've got some wind coverage here.
00:40Yes, as I was saying, there is a weather warning in place today with winds of up to around 60mph for the early part of the day.
00:46It's currently around 7.30am and you just caught some of it there in that video.
00:50However, it's already going to die off as the morning goes on.
00:53This weather warning is only in place until 11am, when things should just de-escalate to around a small gale, really.
00:58And the... No, I think we're okay.
01:02Yes, but the winds really should drop off and things should be back to normal by this evening.
01:06They're saying by around 7pm it will drop down to a more manageable, very typical 20mph, basically.
01:12But as of right now, yeah, we're seeing winds of touching 60mph, at the very least 50mph here in Sheffield.
01:19The Tinsley Viaduct is still open at this time. The Tinsley Viaduct is normally shut in high winds like this.
01:24But as of right now, to the best of my knowledge, it's still open.
01:27This is Storm Lillian, as I say.
01:29Severe winds this morning, basically. Please consider that when you do your morning commute today.
01:33It seems that autumn is knocking on the door and really making itself known.
01:37But we should be back to normal and things should be over with by around midday at the very earliest.
01:43And winds back down to a much more manageable, much more typical 20mph by around 7pm tonight.
01:49Stay safe out there. Good luck on your morning commute and you should be alright.