Storm Bram is set to barrel across the UK in the coming hours with Met Office forecaster Dan Suri saying: “Rain is an additional impact from Storm Bram, with the possibility of 100mm over higher ground”
Storm Bram is set to unleash 85mph gales and a massive downpour with 84 areas at risk.
New Ventura weather maps show parts of he South West, Dorset, Wales, Lancashire, Cumbria, south-west Scotland and Northern Ireland could face as much as 28mm of rain by 6am on Tuesday. Maps also indicated 85mph gales are forecast to whip around Wales, the South West and Cumbria by 12pm.
By 12pm, bands of heavy rain will move north of the border with the central belt of Scotland forecast to see some 15mm of rainfall. The Met Office issued multiple amber and yellow rain warnings across much of the country tomorrow.
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The entire of Northern Ireland is under a yellow wind warning with gusts expected to reach between 50mph and 70mph. Storm Bram will also unleash gusts in excess of 70mph in the Highlands, southern Scotland, Cumbria, Wales and the South West. Amber rain warnings are in place just north of Plymouth from 12am to 12pm on Tuesday.
There is a risk of flooding and damage to some buildings in the area. Another amber rain warning is also in place for southern Wales with fast flowing or deep floodwater likely around the same time period. In northwest Scotland, strong gales are forecast leading to an amber wind warning are in place from 4pm until 12am on Wednesday. Roads and bridges could lose with delays and cancellations expected.
Met Office Chief Forecaster, Dan Suri, said: “Storm Bram will bring a very wet and windy spell of weather, with very strong winds and further heavy rain which falling over saturated ground, could cause flooding impacts. Within the Amber wind warning over northwest Scotland, gusts of up to 90 mph could be recorded. More widely, gusts of 50-60 mph, and perhaps 70 mph in a few spots, are expected across Wales, southwest England and Northern Ireland.
“Rain is an additional impact from Storm Bram, with the possibility of 100mm over higher ground in the south of Wales and parts of Devon. This could require updates to warnings, so it’s important to stay up to date with the forecast in your area, as well as any flood warnings from your local environment agency.”
Affected regions
Highlands & Eilean Siar
Na h-Eileanan Siar
Highland
Strathclyde
Argyll and Bute
Inverclyde
North Ayrshire
Renfrewshire
Central, Tayside & Fife
Angus
Clackmannanshire
Dundee
Falkirk
Fife
Perth and Kinross
Stirling
Grampian
Aberdeen
Aberdeenshire
Moray
Highlands & Eilean Siar
Highland
North East England
Durham
Northumberland
North West England
Blackpool
Cheshire West and Chester
Cumbria
Lancashire
Merseyside
SW Scotland, Lothian Borders
Dumfries and Galloway
East Lothian
Edinburgh
Midlothian Council
Scottish Borders
West Lothian
Strathclyde
Argyll and Bute
East Ayrshire
East Dunbartonshire
East Renfrewshire
Glasgow
Inverclyde
North Ayrshire
North Lanarkshire
Renfrewshire
South Ayrshire
South Lanarkshire
West Dunbartonshire
Northern Ireland
County Antrim
County Armagh
County Down
County Fermanagh
County Londonderry
County Tyrone
London & South East England
Hampshire
South West England
Bath and North East Somerset
Bournemouth Christchurch and Poole
Bristol
Cornwall
Devon
Dorset
Gloucestershire
Isles of Scilly
North Somerset
Plymouth
Somerset
South Gloucestershire
Torbay
Wiltshire
Wales
Blaenau Gwent
Bridgend
Caerphilly
Cardiff
Carmarthenshire
Ceredigion
Conwy
Denbighshire
Gwynedd
Merthyr Tydfil
Monmouthshire
Neath Port Talbot
Newport
Pembrokeshire
Powys
Rhondda Cynon Taf
Swansea
Torfaen
Vale of Glamorgan
Wrexham
West Midlands
Herefordshire
