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The Met Office has issued urgent wind warnings covering large swathes of the UK, with some areas seeing up to 70mph.
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Yellow weather warnings are in place across the country. (Image: Getty)
The Met Office has issued an urgent weather warnings for wind and rain covering a large part of the country, with travel chaos expected.
The alerts, which are in force from today from 5pm until 9pm tomorrow will see winds reach up to 70mph and heavy rainfall.
The weather service wrote of the wind weather warning: “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.”
The yellow weather warning in rain in place on January 1 (Image: Met Office)
On 1 January the weather warning area is over a vast swathe of the country, stretching from Cornwall right across the country, through the Midlands, and over Hull on the east coast.
Most of Wales is consumed by the weather warning, but London should escape the worst the of the conditions. Manchester, however, will likely be blasted by the wind.
Tomorrow, on 2 January, there is a yellow weather warning in place for rain and wind.
The entirety of the south coast is to be swallowed by the weather warning, which will also extend up through the Midlands and along the east coast. Wales will also be largely covered by the warning.
The south east will avoid the yellow weather warning for rain on January 2, however. The rain weather warning will make it much further north, with York and Leeds both likely to see heavy downpours, as well as Liverpool and Manchester.
The weather warnings overlap on January 2 (Image: Met Office)
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