Met Office warns of high winds and possible ‘danger to life’

Forecasters have said winds of up to 70mph could batter Tayside and Fife, bringing a possible “danger to life”.

The Met Office has placed a yellow warning of wind on the region effective from 6pm today until 8am tomorrow, with heavy rain also due to batter Scotland.

Forecasters said power cuts could take place with a chance of disruption to transport, and gusts of between 60mph and 70mph possible in Courier Country.

Winds of up to 80mph are expected to batter the West Coast of Scotland and have not been ruled out in Tayside and Fife.

Dundee and Perth are likely to be hit by the stormy weather, which is being caused by a “deep area of low pressure” moving into the country.

Met Office meteorologist Helen Roberts said: “We have two weather systems, one pushes through from the west coast to the east on Tuesday morning. It will reach the west coast at about 8am or 9am in the morning and Edinburgh at about 11am.”

She added: “The system that follows on behind it is the one we are more cornered about and is the one we are warning about.

“There is a deep area of low pressure moving in.

“That will again bring a spell of heavy rain, again with some hill snow and heavy winds in the latter part of Tuesday into Wednesday morning.”

She added the current Met Office warning may need to be updated today, with the weather system expected to make its way even further north.