{"id":808556,"date":"2026-10-20T11:44:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T11:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/808556\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T11:44:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T11:44:12","slug":"uk-weather-storm-austen-named-by-met-office-as-yellow-wind-warning-issued","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/808556\/","title":{"rendered":"UK weather: Storm Austen named by Met Office as yellow wind warning issued"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Over the next few days there willl be heavy rain across the UK, along with strengthening winds on Wednesday around west Wales and southern England. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But, it is from late on Thursday where a rapidly deepening area of low pressure &#8211; named Storm Austen by the Met Office &#8211; starts to approach from the Atlantic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Heavy rain will move in across England and Wales through Thursday night accompanied by strengthening winds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A Met Office yellow wind warning will be in force from midnight on Friday to 12:00 BST and covers south Wales, south-west England and along southern coastal counties of England.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wind gusts of up to 70mph are expected which will likely bring damage to buildings, travel disruption and the risk of power cuts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Over the next few days there willl be heavy rain across the UK, along with strengthening winds on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":808557,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-808556","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\/808556","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=808556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808556\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/808557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=808556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=808556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=808556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}