{"id":509025,"date":"2026-04-02T14:01:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T14:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/509025\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T14:01:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T14:01:08","slug":"storm-dave-to-target-uk-with-wind-rain-and-snow-forecast-for-easter-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/509025\/","title":{"rendered":"Storm Dave to target UK with wind, rain and snow forecast for Easter weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Met Office has issued yellow warnings for wind covering all of Scotland and Northern Ireland, as well as large swathes of northern England and north Wales.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The warnings are valid at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/weather\/warnings\/weather\" class=\"ssrcss-51189d-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">various times<\/a> on Saturday afternoon, overnight and into Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Widespread gusts of 50-60mph (80-97km\/h) are expected with the chance of 70mph (113km\/h) gusts in exposed areas, especially around coasts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Central and northern parts of Scotland could see winds peaking at 80-90mph (129-144km\/h) with large waves bringing dangerous conditions along the coasts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Winds as strong as these bring the threat of damage, power cuts and significant travel disruption.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Some roads and bridges could close, which could have major impacts on what is predicted to be the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cy81eryy125o\" class=\"ssrcss-51189d-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">busiest Easter in four years for drivers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Disruption to train and ferry services is also possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Met Office has issued yellow warnings for wind covering all of Scotland and Northern Ireland, as well&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":509026,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-509025","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509025","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=509025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509025\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/509026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=509025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}