Storm Ciarán is likely to bring strong winds, heavy rain and the risk of flooding to southern England and Wales this weekend. This is what the UK meteorological service Met Office predicts. The northwest of France also had to deal with Ciarán. The weather will also be stormy in the Netherlands on Thursday, but the probability of a storm in our country is quite small.

An active low pressure area over the UK and France will cause stormy conditions on Wednesday. In southern England and northwestern France, severe storms are possible with very strong wind gusts that can reach more than 130 kilometers per hour directly at sea. Warnings are already in place for these areas and may be further increased in the coming days.

The Met Office predicts Ciarán will also bring heavy rain to the south and west of England. On a large scale, 20 to 25 millimeters may fall and in higher areas 40 to 60 millimeters.

Also read: Definition of storm and strong gusts of wind

Flood risk in the UK

“Heavy and persistent rain will fall on already saturated ground, creating a risk of flooding in areas already struggling to clean up the heavy rain we have seen over the past week.The Met Office said many areas of England were still cleaning up after Storm Babet, which caused at least seven deaths and left hundreds of people homeless due to flooding.

In our country there will be storms starting from Thursday, with strong winds over land to hurricane winds in coastal areas (wind strength 6 to 8). Wind gusts of up to about 75 kilometers per hour are possible across the country and up to 90 km per hour on the seashore. There is little chance of a storm occurring on the coast.

You can read more about the weather in the Netherlands in our weather report.

Our colleagues from Weerplaza explain in the video below how much damage the storm caused.