• Spray and flooding on roads probably making journey times longer
• Bus and train services probably affected with journey times taking longer
• Brief interruption to power supplies and other services is possible
• Flooding of a few homes and businesses is possible
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 end time pushed back to later Friday and warning area expanded further north. Further details updated. An area of rain, heavy at times, will move northwards during Thursday morning. A brief drier and brighter spell may follow, but this likely to be short lived with heavy, slow moving showers through the afternoon, merging into longer spells of rain through the evening, overnight and through much of Friday.
Through this event, 20-30mm is likely for many places, with some higher ground areas receiving in excess of 50mm. Given the widely saturated ground conditions, some surface water flooding is probable, with difficult driving conditions from spray, flowing water or flooded roads in particular.
For further details see https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/warnings-and-advice/uk-warnings
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