00:00Hi there.
00:01At the time of recording, more than a dozen wind gust records have been broken for August
00:07across parts of Scotland and we're not out of the woods yet.
00:10Storm Flores continues to bring widespread disruption for northern parts of the UK and
00:15increasingly strong winds during the evening across the northeast of Scotland.
00:20It's this swathe, this hook of rain, where the most damaging and disruptive winds are
00:25likely and that's just moving through the far north and northeast of Scotland including
00:29Orkney during the evening.
00:32That's where there's the risk of 75 to 85 mile per hour wind gusts and widely across northern
00:38parts of the UK we have seen wind gusts of 60, 70 miles an hour plus and those wind gusts
00:44will only slowly moderate as Flores moves away during the evening.
00:48So a continued risk of disruption as Flores continues to bring those unusually strong winds
00:56with not many summer areas of low pressure bringing such high wind speeds in the past.
01:03The spells of rain continue across Shetland, elsewhere it showers and it stays blustery
01:07overnight.
01:08As we start the day on Tuesday there will be some clear spells across the south and the
01:13east and certainly it's not quite as windy in the south as further north but it is a blustery
01:18start today.
01:19The strongest winds will be across Shetland and Orkney first thing 50 to 70 miles an hour
01:24during the first few hours of the day but those winds do moderate through the day and
01:29then although it's going to be windy for many places especially the north it's not going to
01:33be quite as widely disruptive in terms of the winds.
01:37It's a blustery summer day with a mix of bright spells and showers.
01:41The heaviest downpours moving from western Scotland to the east and northeast of the UK
01:47as the day progresses and then tending to fade away into the evening.
01:50Plenty of dry weather redeveloping as a ridge of higher pressure arrives overnight and that
01:55will calm the winds down although it will stay breezy in the north with further outbreaks
02:00of rain at times for the north of Scotland.
02:03Shows where dry with clear spells a fresh night to come with temperatures in some places
02:08dipping into the single figures.
02:10But we start Wednesday with plenty of sunshine that ridge of high pressure I mentioned well
02:15that's going to be in control for most of the UK during Wednesday.
02:18We do have a weak weather front moving through the Northern Isles first thing Wednesday bringing
02:22some patchy rain and a thickening of the cloud across western Scotland and Northern Ireland
02:27by the afternoon a few spots of rain arriving because of this next approaching frontal system
02:31but for much of the UK it's dry, it's bright and certainly a less windy interlude midweek.
02:38But this frontal system I mentioned well that's coming in ahead of the next area of low pressure.
02:45Not expected to be as powerful as storm florists but still likely to bring some strong winds,
02:5250 perhaps 60 mile per hour winds to the far north and north west of Scotland as we go into Thursday
02:58and Friday. So more changeable weather to come especially for the north however it's the next
03:03few hours that are crucial for the most disruptive winds continuing across the northeast of Scotland
03:08in particular. More details as ever on YouTube, online and through our social channels. Bye bye.
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