Liz♥
20-09-2006, 04:20 PM
Weird weather looks set to return to the UK this week. After the record-breaking heat of July, temperatures could reach 28C later this week - only to be followed by howling gales, torrential rain and the tail end of a hurricane. The Met Office has issued a warning for "prolonged heavy rain, unseasonably high temperatures and strong winds" in the second half of the week.
The heat is expected to peak in the South East on Thursday. Forecasters say London will bask in Indian summer temperatures
of at least 28C while East Anglia will hit 25C.
Temperatures have already hit 30C this month at Heathrow airport.
But the heat will be followed by a hurricane. The tail-end of Hurricane Gordon is expected to batter the western side of the country.
The storm is currently *****ng winds of 90mph but will weaken as it heads across the Atlantic. Sky's Isobel Lang said Ireland was most at risk.
"There is a risk of severe gales with 70 to 80mph gusts. Ireland is most at risk, and western fringes of Britain are also at risk, but to a lesser extent," she said.
"Damaging gusts and heavy rain at this time of year, autumn, mean that disruption is possible to transport and power supplies and of course ferry crossings."
She added: "The track of ex-tropical storms can change but the risk is definitely there for wind and rain - it's just hard to say how many of us will be affected. At present there is about a 60% chance of disruption due to the gales across Ireland."
The Met Office has issued a severe weather alert.
It says: "Met Office forecasters are warning that, over the coming days, western Europe, including the British Isles, could feel the effects of an ex-tropical storm, with the potential for prolonged heavy rain, unseasonably high temperatures and strong winds.
"Hurricane Gordon is currently in the mid-Atlantic. . . through this week it is expected to lose its strength, but the effects of the storm will be felt closer to home as the remnants influence the weather across the UK during the second half of the week."
Apprantly it's suppose to happen on the 21st and like Britian is going to get the aftermath w/e it's called of it.
What you think? :o
The heat is expected to peak in the South East on Thursday. Forecasters say London will bask in Indian summer temperatures
of at least 28C while East Anglia will hit 25C.
Temperatures have already hit 30C this month at Heathrow airport.
But the heat will be followed by a hurricane. The tail-end of Hurricane Gordon is expected to batter the western side of the country.
The storm is currently *****ng winds of 90mph but will weaken as it heads across the Atlantic. Sky's Isobel Lang said Ireland was most at risk.
"There is a risk of severe gales with 70 to 80mph gusts. Ireland is most at risk, and western fringes of Britain are also at risk, but to a lesser extent," she said.
"Damaging gusts and heavy rain at this time of year, autumn, mean that disruption is possible to transport and power supplies and of course ferry crossings."
She added: "The track of ex-tropical storms can change but the risk is definitely there for wind and rain - it's just hard to say how many of us will be affected. At present there is about a 60% chance of disruption due to the gales across Ireland."
The Met Office has issued a severe weather alert.
It says: "Met Office forecasters are warning that, over the coming days, western Europe, including the British Isles, could feel the effects of an ex-tropical storm, with the potential for prolonged heavy rain, unseasonably high temperatures and strong winds.
"Hurricane Gordon is currently in the mid-Atlantic. . . through this week it is expected to lose its strength, but the effects of the storm will be felt closer to home as the remnants influence the weather across the UK during the second half of the week."
Apprantly it's suppose to happen on the 21st and like Britian is going to get the aftermath w/e it's called of it.
What you think? :o