Friday, October 25, 2013

The British Isles are in for a soaking.

2013-10-25 

A powerful weather system (click here) developing over the Atlantic could see Britain battered with some of the worst weather conditions since the Great Storm of 1987, forecasters are predicting. The storm is expected to develop south west of Britain tomorrow and reach the south coast of England on Sunday night and into Monday, bringing exceptionally strong winds, forecasters predict. With winds of 80-90mph and up to 30mm of rain forecast the RAC has warned motorists against all but essential travel in torrential rain and floods. The public has also been warned to expect the possibility of power cuts....

The Satellite Image is from the Met Office which is the UK's weather service.

Met Service Satellite
October 25, 2013
1700 utc Infrared Satellite (click here for 24 hour loop - thank you)

Leon Brown, Chief Meteorologist  
Published: Oct 25, 2013, 1:33 PM EDT

...Ahead of the storm (click here) will be a large band of moderate to heavy rain so Sunday night will become very wet across southern and central Britain with as much as 30 to 60mm over SW England and Wales, the highest totals most likely in Wales. The persistent rain will then swing up across northern England during Monday morning.... 

This visual satellite shows the potential of a double landfall, one after the other.