The Met Office’s severe weather alerts warn of flying debris, potential power cuts, bridge closures and disruption to transport and mobile phone signal. Very windy weather is expected across the entire west of the UK, with a yellow warning in place for much of Wales, Scotland, north-east England, north-west England, south-west England and the West Midlands. There are yellow warnings for northern England and southern Scotland on Tuesday, but winds are expected to ease by the evening. Red weather warnings are in place in Ireland, where the national emergency coordination group met on Sunday morning to discuss preparations. “Hurricane Ophelia is barrelling towards the UK, but it is weakening as it goes,” said a Met Office spokesman, Grahame Madge.

Source: The Guardian October 15, 2017 13:08 UTC