STORM Ellen has strengthened to a 900-mile wide “weather bomb” that will pummel the UK with 75mph winds. A wind and rain warning has been issued for western parts of the UK from tonight until Thurs…
STORM Ellen has strengthened to a 900-mile wide “weather bomb” that will pummel the UK with 75mph winds.Dramatic weather maps show the 75mph Storm Ellen move across the Atlantic Ocean toward the British IslesThe pink and purple indicates where Storm Ellen be at its strongest tonightEllen, Britain's worst storm for six months since Storm Dennis on February 15, will arrive on British shores tonight, travelling east across Ireland.
The Met Office has said: “A 'weather bomb' is not a perfect meteorological term but is defined as an intense low pressure system with a central pressure that falls 24 millibars in a 24-hour period.”“Local flooding is possible from surface water and rivers on Thursday evening in the South-West, and from large waves and high tides on Thursday and Friday in the South-West, Wales and North-East," The Environment Agency said.
The storm, which includes the remnants of Tropical Storm Kyle and has been named by Ireland's Met Éireann, will bring severe gales as it hits the west coast of Ireland later today, and then sweeps across to the UK.BUZZ OFFStorm Ellen to smash Britain with 'severe' 70mph winds & torrential rain todayHero teen, 15, who drowned saving younger brother named as family pay tribute
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