{"id":811414,"date":"2026-10-23T12:10:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T12:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/811414\/"},"modified":"2026-10-23T12:10:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T12:10:14","slug":"storm-austen-brings-84mph-wind-gusts-as-thousands-of-uk-homes-without-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/811414\/","title":{"rendered":"Storm Austen brings 84mph wind gusts as thousands of UK homes without power"},"content":{"rendered":"

Further risks of strong winds in England and Wales today, with gusts of up to 80mph possible tomorrowpublished at 12:46 BST<\/p>\n

12:46 BST<\/p>\n

\"\"Emily Wood
BBC Weather<\/p>\n

The Met Office says strong winds in the Channel Islands should start to “ease off” for the rest of the day, after they received a red warning for wind overnight and all schools had to close today.<\/p>\n

Officers have put two warnings in place for Storm Austin in the UK, after the amber warning ended at 10:00 BST and some parts of the country saw really strong gusts of wind – some over 70mph (110km\/h) in the early hours.<\/p>\n

Gusts of 76pmh (120km\/h) were recorded in Saint Mary’s in the Isle of Scilly.<\/p>\n

There is now a yellow wind warning for parts of south west England, parts of Wales and along the south coast, where there is still the risk of further strong and gusty winds.<\/p>\n

Then for later on today, there is a yellow warning for parts of southern England, where winds will not be as strong as earlier, but could see inland gales up to 55-65pmh (90-105km\/h).<\/p>\n

On Saturday, Storm Boelo is forecast to bring more strong winds. The impact is expected to be on more northern parts of the country. <\/p>\n

The Met Office has implemented an amber warning for wind on Saturday to cover parts of Scotland, parts of northern England and parts of Northern Ireland.<\/p>\n

The strongest gusts are expected overnight from Saturday into Sunday, with gusts of up to 80mph (130km\/h) predicted around exposed coast and headlands.<\/p>\n

There is also a wider yellow warning for wind covering more of Northern Ireland, Scotland and northern England tomorrow. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Further risks of strong winds in England and Wales today, with gusts of up to 80mph possible tomorrowpublished…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":811415,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-811414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811414","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=811414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811414\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/811415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=811414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=811414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=811414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}