Severe Weather Warning: Storms Brewing in UK for this Weekend

There are storms brewing for this weekend, which only means one thing. Flooding.

According to MetCheck, the next 36 hours are going to prove very wet and windy for Britain and Ireland. An Atlantic low is heading toward our shores and with it comes heavy rain and severe gales.

The storm has already started to batter the South coast, with surface water on every road and with more to come this surface water is only going to build.

The storm will then rage North East towards Ireland and then Scotland, with the Southern and Eastern flank taking the full force of the weather.

Metcheck's picture of the weather shows the South of England and Ireland being the worst hit places, with Brighton expecting 35 mph gusts of wind and around 2 inches of rain. 70 mph gusts of wind are approaching Cornwall and Devon spelling terrible gales and localised flooding.

If the work that the Environment Agency and Government have already done to flood defences needed a test, then this is going to be a good one. Let's hope that they pass and that we do not see a repeat of the flooding of 2007.

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