Heavy rain and strong winds have continued in eastern Scotland, where there is a Met Office amber warning in force for Grampian, Angus, and Perth and Kinross until 18:00 GMT.<\/p>\n
Rainfall accumulations of 60-80mm are likely, with as much as 100-120mm over high ground. <\/p>\n
Totals since Wednesday evening may exceed 150 mm in a few places. This is expected to lead to some surface water and river flooding across the area.<\/p>\n
There is also a wider yellow warning across the rest of eastern Scotland where rainfall accumulations of 30-60mm will be seen widely.<\/p>\n
The Met Office warns that with the ground already saturated from recent rain and and snow thaw, this may lead to some flooding in places.<\/p>\n
A strong south-easterly wind in north-east Scotland will also make it feel particularly unpleasant.<\/p>\n
Additional yellow warnings are in force on Thursday across south-east Wales, Somerset and Devon from 08:00 to 16:00 and Northern Ireland from 10:00 to 23:59.<\/p>\n
Persistent and heavy rain in these areas through the day falling on saturated ground could lead to some flooding and transport disruption.<\/p>\n
On Thursday morning there were nearly 160 flood warnings in force across England, Scotland and Wales.<\/p>\n
Elsewhere, the weather remains generally cloudy and breezy, with rain and drizzle.<\/p>\n
On Friday, the UK will be impacted by Storm Ingrid, which was named by the Portuguese weather service due to the impacts expected there from strong winds and heavy rain.<\/p>\n
The centre of Ingrid will move close to the south-west of England and north-west France. <\/p>\n
Winds in the UK will strengthen on Friday, with gusts up to 65mph expected.<\/p>\n
While not as powerful or dangerous as the near 100mph winds experienced in south-west England during Storm Goretti, there could still be some impacts.<\/p>\n
It will likely stay windy through Saturday as the centre of Ingrid stalls to the south-west.<\/p>\n
The rest of the UK will avoid any impacts associated with Storm Ingrid, but the rain in eastern Scotland will continue, with some snow over higher ground.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Heavy rain and strong winds have continued in eastern Scotland, where there is a Met Office amber warning…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":383878,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-383877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=383877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383877\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/383878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}