Craig Woolhouse, Environment Agency Director of Incident Management, said: ‘River levels across northern England are already high and are expected to rise with this further heavy rainfall, bringing with them a significant risk of flooding.
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Parts of Wales are braced for high winds and heavy rain as the Met Office has issued a yellow “be aware” warning until Wednesday afternoon.
A forecaster warned: “Southwesterly winds will increase during Monday morning, when severe gales will affect parts of northwest mainland of Scotland and the Western Isles, extending to Orkney and Shetland during the afternoon”.
A spokesman for the Met Office said: “There remains a good deal of uncertainty in this evolution and particularly the location of the strongest winds, so this warning will be kept under review and updated as necessary.
We had Abigail last week, this is going to be Barney”, said Ms Sharples, adding that coastal areas could see gusts of 80mph while winds travelling at 60 to 70mph were expected inland.
Barney is the second storm considered strong enough to be given a name as part of a joint “name our storms” campaign between the Met Office and Met Eireann.
Meanwhile, there is due to be a change in the weather at the end of the week with colder air spreading from the north, bringing wintry showers to the northern United Kingdom, particularly over the hills.
The Highlands and Islands were worst hit by gusts of 84mph while the rest of the United Kingdom experienced thundery showers as a result of Britain’s first named storm.
After a wet and windy weekend there will be a few bright spells on Monday but flood warnings remain in place.
The River Ouse in York broke its banks, flooding properties in the city centre.
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And this time it’s going to come further south than Abigail ventured. We urge anyone on the road in the thick of the storm to slow down and leave plenty of space behind the vehicle in front.
