THE Met Office has released a “danger to life” alert amid warnings of 70mph winds.
Forecasters urged Brits to take care and batten down the hatches, with strong winds expected to start blowing through overnight.
The Met Office has warned gusty winds are likely to hit tomorrow
Yellow weather warnings are in place, with forecasters warning the winds could bring a ‘danger to life’
Yellow weather warnings are in place tomorrow, covering all of Scotland, and much of the east coast down to Manchester.
The Met Office has warned the gusty winds could see flying debris could cause “injuries and danger to life”, travel chaos, power cuts and loss of mobile phone coverage.
It said there was also a chance seafront properties will be hammered by massive waves.
The 70mph winds are expected to hit Scotland around 5am tomorrow, and the east coast of England an hour later.
Both warnings are in place until the afternoon and evening.
It also warned some roads and bridges could be forced to close in the north east of England as a result of the gusts.
Scattered showers are expected to hit much of the UK today, with winds picking up this evening and becoming stronger overnight.
It comes at Met Office yesterday issued the urgent wind warnings.
A meteorologist said: “A deep area of low pressure is expected to impact much of northern Britain through Friday.
“Winds will increase from west to east, with gusts of 55-65 mph likely, and locally as high as 70-75 mph for exposed coasts and hills.”
Five flood alerts were also issued across swathes of Hampshire as well as East and West Sussex, where groundwater floods have been prolonged.
With a relatively dry February forecasted, many of those warnings are likely to wane as the days and weeks progress.
