GALE FORCE
UK weather: Met Office issues yellow warning for 55mph gales as ‘TORNADO’ rips through streets damaging homes
Here's the full Met Office forecast for this week
THIS is the shocking moment a tornado flipped over a caravan as it tore through streets and damaged homes.
The Met Office has issued a yellow warning for 55mph gales after a suspected twister wreaked havoc across the UK this morning.
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CCTV footage from one property in the Staffordshire village of Knutton at 6.30am showed fierce gales knock over the mobile home as debris was swept up into the air.
Another suspected tornado tore through the Nottingham suburb of West Bridgford at 7.30am, locals said.
Snaps showed roof tiles and fallen trees strewn across the leafy neighbourhood - with nearly every house damaged.
The Met Office said the weather this morning "had the potential for short-lived tornadoes" - but that its radars had not picked one up.
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Forecasters said around 30 tornadoes happen in the UK each year but are rarely caught by radar.
It comes as thunderstorms, heavy rain and hail buffet the UK today - with strong gales lashing Brits.
A yellow wind warning will be in force for Wales, Northern Ireland and the whole of England south of Newcastle until 10pm tonight.
Howling winds of up to 55mph will likely spark road, train, ferry and flight delays throughout the warning zone.
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Power cuts and phone signal outages are also possible, forecasters said.
The mercury will plunge today as blustery showers spread across the UK.
Gusty winds will bring hail and thunder to most of the country this afternoon.
The showers will peter out this evening, but it will still be rather windy with rain clouds lingering on along the North Sea coast.
Groundwater flooding is possible in parts of Dorset and Wiltshire this week.
The Environment Agency has issued eight red flood warnings and 65 amber flood alerts across England.
Tomorrow will be drier with a mix of sunny spells and scattered showers.
But it will still be chilly with blustery winds buffeting most of the country.
Wednesday will also be mostly dry, though the north west could see some rain.
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It will be rather cloudy on Thursday, with light rain spreading to the south.
Friday will also be overcast before the wind peters out and warm weather returns this coming weekend.
Is your area affected?
THESE are the areas covered by a yellow wind warning until 10pm:
- Derby
- Derbyshire
- Leicester
- Leicestershire
- Lincolnshire
- Northamptonshire
- Nottingham
- Nottinghamshire
- Rutland
- Bedford
- Cambridgeshire
- Central Bedfordshire
- Essex
- Hertfordshire
- Luton
- Norfolk
- Peterborough
- Southend-on-Sea
- Suffolk
- Thurrock
- Bracknell Forest
- Brighton and Hove
- Buckinghamshire
- East Sussex
- Greater London
- Hampshire
- Isle of Wight
- Kent
- Medway
- Milton Keynes
- Oxfordshire
- Portsmouth
- Reading
- Slough
- Southampton
- Surrey
- West Berkshire
- West Sussex
- Windsor and Maidenhead
- Wokingham
- Darlington
- Durham
- Blackburn with Darwen
- Blackpool
- Cheshire East
- Cheshire West and Chester
- Cumbria
- Greater Manchester
- Halton
- Lancashire
- Merseyside
- Warrington
- County Antrim
- County Armagh
- County Down
- County Fermanagh
- County Londonderry
- County Tyrone
- Bath and North East Somerset
- Bournemouth Christchurch and Poole
- Bristol
- Cornwall
- Devon
- Dorset
- Gloucestershire
- Isles of Scilly
- North Somerset
- Plymouth
- Somerset
- South Gloucestershire
- Swindon
- Torbay
- Wiltshire
- Blaenau Gwent
- Bridgend
- Caerphilly
- Cardiff
- Carmarthenshire
- Ceredigion
- Conwy
- Denbighshire
- Flintshire
- Gwynedd
- Isle of Anglesey
- Merthyr Tydfil
- Monmouthshire
- Neath Port Talbot
- Newport
- Pembrokeshire
- Powys
- Rhondda Cynon Taf
- Swansea
- Torfaen
- Vale of Glamorgan
- Wrexham
- Herefordshire
- Shropshire
- Staffordshire
- Stoke-on-Trent
- Telford and Wrekin
- Warwickshire
- West Midlands Conurbation
- Worcestershire
- East Riding of Yorkshire
- Kingston upon Hull
- North East Lincolnshire
- North Lincolnshire
- North Yorkshire
- South Yorkshire
- West Yorkshire
- York
This week's Met Office forecast
Today
A narrow band of squally heavy rain clearing England and Wales by late morning.
Blustery showers, with hail and thunder already in the north spreading to all parts during the afternoon.
Feeling colder than of late, with gusty winds.
Tonight
Showers dying out across much of the country, but persisting across the Northern Isles and along North Sea coasts.
Clear spells developing, but remaining rather windy.
Tuesday
Drier on Tuesday with sunny spells and scattered showers, these mostly in the north and west, but also across the south and east at first.
Feeling chilly with blustery winds.
Wednesday to Friday
Mostly dry on Wednesday with rain in the northwest later.
Rather cloudy on Thursday with light rain spreading south.
Cloudy for some on Friday. Winds easing as temperatures recover later.
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