Enjoy today’s relative calm as the first storm of the 2017-18 season and earliest in 3 years has been named and poised to sweep across the central UK overnight tonight into Wednesday.  A yellow warning is up for heavy, possibly flooding rainfall while an amber warning is up for severe gale-force winds in exposure with gales widespread across central/southern England and Wales. Disruption is likely overnight tonight and during the Wednesday morning commute for cities including Liverpool, Manchester, Sheffield, Leeds and Birmingham.

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This is a deepening low as it crosses Northern Ireland and Northern England with strongest winds within the southern flank of the system and beneath the nose of the jet.

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A yellow be aware warning for rain.

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Amber be prepared warning for wind.

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The strong winds aren’t confined to just the UK and Ireland but the strongest winds from this storm may strike the Dutch, Belgian or Danish coast tomorrow morning.

A chilly few days follows in the wake of Aileen with potential for hill snow.

By the weekend, the building Atlantic ridge slides east bringing lighter winds, brighter skies but a risk of cold nights and rural frost.

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