The Met Office today revealed Storm Ciarán will batter the UK in the coming week, bringing strong winds and heavy rain to England and Wales.
After an already wet week, further heavy and thundery showers are expected on Monday.
A number of severe weather warnings are expected to be issued for Monday through to Thursday for southern areas of the UK.
Yellow weather warnings have been issued for southern England, South West Wales, Northern Ireland, and Central and North East Scotland.
Gales of up to 90mph are expected and southern and western areas will see the heaviest rainfall of 40 to 60mm.
The next wave of bad weather will hit southern parts of the country over the next few days
Yellow warnings of rain mean there is a small chance that homes and businesses could be flooded and driving conditions could be difficult.
There is a chance of power cuts and loss of other services to homes.
These are the regions which will be affected.
London and South East England:
- Brighton and Hove
- East Sussex
- Hampshire
- Isle of Wight
- Kent
- Portsmouth
- West Sussex
North East England:
- Darlington
- Durham
- Gateshead
- Hartlepool
- Middlesbrough
- Newcastle upon Tyne
- North Tyneside
- Northumberland
- Redcar and Cleveland
- South Tyneside
- Stockton-on-Tees
- Sunderland
Wales:
- Carmarthenshire
- Ceredigion
- Neath Port Talbot
- Pembrokeshire
- Powys
- Swansea
South West Scotland and Lothian Borders:
- East Lothian
- Edinburgh
- Midlothian Council
- Scottish Borders
- West Lothian
Strathclyde:
- Argyll and Bute
- East Dunbartonshire
- East Renfrewshire
- Glasgow
- Inverclyde
- North Ayrshire
- North Lanarkshire
- Renfrewshire
- South Lanarkshire
- West Dunbartonshire
Northern Ireland:
- County Antrim
- County Armagh
- County Down
- County Fermanagh
- County Tyrone
Met office Deputy Chief Meteorologist, Chris Almond, said ‘Winds associated with Storm Ciarán are likely to gust to 80mph along the south coast of England, with a small risk of somewhere exposed seeing 90mph, and winds could even gust up to 50 or 60mph further inland.
‘This deep low-pressure system will also bring heavy rain to much of the UK, but the heaviest rain is expected in southern and western areas with 20 to 25mm quite widely across the region but up to 40 to 60mm potentially over higher ground.
‘Heavy and persistent rain will fall onto already saturated ground bringing a risk of further impacts such as flooding in areas that are already struggling to clean up from the heavy rainfall we have seen over the last week or so.’