Storm Dudley set to spoil our week with gusts of 90mph forecast
Hold on to your hat – Storm Dudley is on the way.
People are being told to brace themselves for blustery weather as the Met Office warned of gusts of up to 90mph in some parts of the country.
The storm has been named by the Met Office as Dudley – after the male name rather than anything to do with the Black Country town.
While the West Midlands won’t see the worst of it, the region is still in for a rough week of wind and rain.
The forecaster has issued a yellow alert for wind on Wednesday and Thursday for parts of Northern Ireland, most of Scotland and the north of England, with the Met Office warning this could be upgraded.
Weather experts are predicting the entire country, including the West Midlands, will be battered by high winds, with Met Office meteorologist Tom Morgan warning “this whole week is going to see quite a disturbed weather pattern developing”.
Forecasters have predicted the worst of the wind will hit midweek, with a 24-hour weather warning coming into force from 6pm on Wednesday, stretching down from the Orkney Islands to parts of Yorkshire and Lancashire, as a weather system moves in.
More southern areas including the West Midlands will see strong winds on Thursday and Friday.
Mr Morgan added: “It looks very, very windy further south at this stage for Friday. There could be some quite widespread travel disruption in parts of the UK through this week. All parts of the UK will see some very strong winds at times. It’s Scotland and the North’s turn on Wednesday and into Thursday, and then it’s probably going to be the southern parts of England and Wales that will see the very strongest winds on Friday.”
