• Spray and flooding on roads will make journey times longer, and a few roads may become impassable at times.
• There is a small chance that a few homes and business could be flooded
• Some interruption to power supplies and other services are possible.
• Bus and train services may be affected with journey times taking longer
• Difficult, and at times dangerous, driving conditions are likely in the heaviest showers.
Check if your property could be at risk of flooding. If so, consider preparing a flood plan and an emergency flood kit.
Give yourself the best chance of avoiding delays by checking road conditions if driving, or bus and train timetables, amending your travel plans if necessary.
People cope better with power cuts when they have prepared for them in advance. It’s easy to do; consider gathering torches and batteries, a mobile phone power pack and other essential items.
Be prepared for weather warnings to change quickly: when a weather warning is issued, the Met Office recommends staying up to date with the weather forecast in your area.
Information on update: Warning type changed to rain only with winds slowly easing Saturday morning, and extended until 22:00 Saturday to capture the rest of the rainfall event. Area adjusted from previous warning to remove Isles of Scilly and some eastern counties. Storm Ingrid (named by IPMA, the Portuguese Met Service), will slowly drift northwards over the Celtic Sea during Saturday, with bands of frequent heavy showers revolving around its centre, merging into longer spells of rain at times. An additional 20-40 mm, and in a few exposed locations 50 mm of rainfall is expected to fall.
With ground conditions saturated in many places, further flooding of roads and flowing water from fields is likely even with modest amounts of rainfall, leading to difficult driving conditions and roads potentially becoming impassable at times. Although not as strong as yesterday, winds approaching gale force during Saturday morning may continue to exacerbate impacts at times, particularly along the English Channel coastline.
For further details see https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/warnings-and-advice/uk-warnings
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