Scotland and the north of England are on maximum alert as Storm Arwen sweeps into the UK.
The Met Office has issued a rare red warning for wind from 3pm today to 2am on Saturday as the first winter storm batters the country, with gusts forecast to be as high as 100mph.
The red alert is the maximum the Met Office issues and means the impact is very likely and likely to be high. The alert tells people in the zone of the potential of ‘roads, bridges, and railway lines closed, with delays and cancellations to bus, train, ferry services and flights’ and of ‘large waves and beach material being thrown on to coastal roads, sea fronts and homes’.supports HTML5 video
Yellow wind warnings are also in place across most western parts of the UK today, extending to the rest of the country on Saturday.
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