The Met Office has issued a number of “severe weather warnings” from Monday as Storm Ciarán is set to bring heavy rain and strong winds over the next few days.
Across parts of southern England and Wales on Thursday Storm Ciarán will bring a period of unsettled weather and also for most parts of the UK.
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 60 mph 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.”
