Met Office issues urgent weather warning as Britons brace for 70mph gusts


The Met Office has issued an urgent weather warning for wind covering a large part of the country, with travel chaos expected.

The alert, which comes into force tomorrow at 8am and ends at 9pm the same day, will see winds reach up to 70mph.

Heavy rain is also expected in many parts of the country.

The weather service wrote: “Very windy conditions are likely to quickly develop over southwest England and southern Wales on Tuesday morning and then spread eastwards across southern and some central parts of England. In coastal areas winds are likely to gust towards 60 mph at times, with a lower likelihood of 70 mph gusts. Inland gusts of 40 to 50 mph are likely but with a smaller chance of 55 to 60 mph gusts, although the extent of such gusts carries low confidence at present.”

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