Wales braced for mixed weekend of weather
WALES is set to see a weekend of mixed weather with bright spells, showers and highs of 18°C today before a severe weather warning for wind and rain kicks in tomorrow.
After a week of typically autumnal weather – with foggy nights, pleasant sunshine as well as periods of wind and rain – more unsettled conditions look likely for this weekend, heading into the beginning of next week.
The Met Office forecasts that today, Wales will see “brighter spells and showers at first. However, the skies will turn increasingly cloudy as more persistent rain, locally heavy, spreads in from the west.”
A severe weather warning for rain and wind will then kick in at 12.05am tonight, lasting until 6pm tomorrow. strong winds on Monday but then generally some calmer weather.
“Then, we may have a potential north-south split by the middle of the week with rain in the north and more bright and sunny spells in the south.”
The Met Office added the potential effects of Maria on the UK will be very different from those experienced in the Caribbean.
Forecasters said that by the weekend these systems will have drifted away from the tropics, and as they lose connection with warmer waters they will lose this source of energy and decline.
They added that the waters in our latitudes of the North Atlantic are far too cool to sustain an actual hurricane.