Weather warnings for Storm Babet have been upgraded to ‘amber’ by the Met Office.
The storm is predicted to bring up to 200mm of rain and gale-force winds that may cause widespread flooding.The most severe conditions will hit eastern Scotland where an amber warning is in place from 6am on Thursday until 6pm on Friday.Yellow weather warnings are in force for much of the rest of the UK from tomorrow until Saturday morning.
Stephen Dixon, a Met Office spokesman, said: "A disruptive period of weather is on the way."There's some high totals which have the potential to disrupt travel plans... possibility of power cuts as well as the obvious risk of flooding. "As you look at Wednesday, the first pulse of rain is looking to particularly influence Northern Ireland, Wales and the southwest of England, and into Thursday.
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