Gales and heavy rain to impact UK as yellow wind warning issued — SkimNews
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- Met Office issued a yellow wind warning for parts of the Highlands and Western Isles, valid Wednesday 10:00–19:00 BST, with gusts of 50–60mph and up to 70mph on exposed coasts and hills.
- The warning flags disruption risk to rail, air and ferry transport, delays on bridges (especially for high-sided vehicles), road delays, and possible short-term power cuts.
- Scotland and Northern Ireland will bear the brunt of heavy rain, while much of England and Wales stay largely dry with sunny spells and temperatures climbing into the mid-to-high teens Celsius, possibly 20C in southern England.
- Thursday is forecast to peak at 22C in East Anglia before a weather front sweeps southwards bringing cooler, drier conditions and overnight frost by the weekend.
- Hurricane Isaias made landfall in the southern United States last Friday, weakened rapidly, and its remnants crossed the Atlantic where the jet stream fuelled explosive cyclogenesis into a new deep low.
- The storm's centre is being steered hundreds of miles from UK shores toward Iceland, where it threatens blizzards and sea gusts above 110mph between Iceland and the Faroe Islands.
Why it matters: The same Atlantic storm that brought hurricane-force conditions to the US East Coast is now reshaping UK weather for the week: ferry, rail and bridge disruption in north-west Scotland alongside 20C+ warmth further south. The contrast between the storm's centre passing harmlessly north of the UK and the 70mph gusts still hitting Scottish coasts shows how the jet stream can deliver extreme weather at a distance.
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