The UK is set to be battered by "unseasonably" strong winds later this week, as the remnants of a tropical storm heads our way.
Weather forecasters are warning of 45mph gusts as the tail end of Storm Alex, which caused disruption across Florida at the weekend, arrives in the UK on Thursday. The tropical storm produced heavy rainfall over the weekend in several regions of the US, including Miami, which reportedly experienced 5.24in of rain.
The Met Office said ex-tropical storm Alex will bring high winds in areas of the UK, starting on Thursday. On Friday, winds will begin to strengthen across the UK and some showers are to move into the western parts, particularly Northern Ireland, western Scotland and parts of northern England.
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Oli Claydon, a Met Office spokesperson, told the PA news agency: "The wind is the main part of the story - unseasonably strong winds for the time of year. We could see gusts of up to 45mph through Friday. "Those sorts of wind speeds will be fairly confined to the far north west of the UK, but as the low pressure goes over the north of the UK through Saturday, a wider area of the north of the UK could see those sorts of wind speeds. It will be windy everywhere across the UK, but the further south you go, the less influence the low pressure will have."
Mr Claydon added that the ex-storm will largely lose its strength as it progresses into the weekend and that "it doesn't have its regular tropical properties in terms of strength".
A band of rain is set to move in from the south west of the UK, tonight, which will bring rain to most areas of the UK on Wednesday and then give way to winds when ex-tropical storm Alex takes over on Thursday.
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