Met Office yellow weather warnings will kick in from midday for much of the country
Storm Agnes, the first named storm of the season, is expected to hit the west coast of Ireland on Wednesday morning but it travels eastwards towards the UK around midday. The storm is said to be"intensifying quickly" in the Atlantic, with winds of up to 75mph expected.Met Office meteorologist Tom Morgan said: “We are likely to potentially see some damaging winds, the possibility of some brief power interruptions, particularly in Irish sea coastal areas.
“So Northern Ireland, north-west England, west Wales, and south-west Scotland, that’s where we’ll probably see gusts of up to 75mph afternoon, evening, that’s when the peak of the winds will be and then Storm Agnes will move across Scotland clearing away from Shetland through Thursday morning.” He added: “In addition to the winds, there’s going to be some large waves as well, so some big stormy seas, and therefore there might well be some coastal flooding where the waves break on to promenades and on to coastal roads.”
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