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An ‘explosive’ nightmare-before-Christmas ‘weather-bomb’ will hammer Britain with 80mph gales, rain and snow.Powerful jet stream winds this weekend will steer a deep and stormy area of low pressure towards the UK.It will blow up under ‘explosive cyclogenesis’, unleashing strong winds and rain to the north on Saturday and then more widely.Government warnings are in force across Scotland for power outages, coastal flooding and pre-Christmas travel chaos.Britain braces for another storm […]

The Met Office has issued a fresh yellow warning for wind just three days before Christmas, with gale-force winds of up to 70mph set to batter Britons over the weekend.The wind warning - which follows two on Saturday - extends from midnight to 9pm on Sunday, December 22.The warning area stretches across all of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, and covers all of England's west - from Cornwall to Cumbria.The […]

A freezing blast poised to roar in on the shortest day of the year will plunge the US into the ‘coldest spell of winter so far’.Icy winds and snow will grip almost half the nation this weekend as sunlight dims to its lowest on the winter solstice.Eastern and north-eastern states are wrapping up for waves of bitter cold while further south, temperatures plummet.A blast of cold ‘forced’ in from Canada […]

The Met Office has responded to claims that a -6C ice bomb is set to batter Britain with “relentless” 30-hours of snow to fall around Christmas.Two tabloid newspapers have reported that a bitter cold snap will soon descend on the UK, with temperatures falling below freezing and flurries expected to settle.Whilst the Met Office said that there “won’t be a continuous blanket”, snow showers can be expected in the run-up […]

Americans heading away for Christmas face “back-to-back” storms amid warnings to prepare a “tornado action plan”.Relentless bouts of wind and rain steered by an “atmospheric river” threaten festive mayhem for millions of holidaymakers.A tornado that spun up in San Francisco over the weekend could be the first of several to strike through the coming days.Meanwhile, a “conveyor belt” of storms barrelling across the country threatens damaging winds, floods and crippling […]

A summer weather feature more typical of a July heatwave is about to throw the end of December into Christmas chaos.Creeping up from the tropics, the Azores High – a huge region of high pressure that drives summer heatwaves – has set up camp off the southwest coast.It will clash swords with low pressure pushing from the north, throwing the Christmas outlook into a teetering balance.Weather experts predict a hectic […]

The Met Office has issued a yellow weather alert for much of the west coast of the UK as it warns of “gales developing” in exposed areas.The warning, which will come into effect from 3pm today (Tuesday) until 8am on Wednesday, covers a large region of the west coast of Wales, Northern Ireland and southwest Scotland.“Southerly winds will strengthen through Tuesday afternoon, evening and night, with gales developing along some […]

A massive storm duo spanning 12 states will unleash a "hazardous mix" of wind, rain, blizzards and crippling freezing rain.Holiday travel hell looms as a nightmare before Christmas weather disaster puts the United States on standby for power cuts, floods and feet of snow.National winter weather warnings are in force across hundreds of miles of northern America, with separate winter-storm alerts covering Montana, Idaho and Wyoming.Stormy weather will be driven […]

The Met Office has issued fresh yellow weather warnings in two parts of the UK as wind and heavy rain are expected to lash Britain. Warning individuals that their journeys might be disrupted by the harsher conditions, the forecaster has noted that strong westerly winds might cause some trouble for people travelling on Sunday afternoon.Homes might even endure power cuts, while delays for high-sided vehicles on "exposed routes and bridges" […]