The UK is set to be lashed by heavy rain and strong winds as Storm Diana hits next week.
Strong gusts and heavy downpours will sweep the UK from Tuesday.
And Storm Diana, which has been named by the official Portuguese Meteorological Authority, will move towards the UK from mid-week after impacting the Azores. It will exacerbate the unsettled weather, the Met Office said.
A spokesman said: “A complex and slow-moving area of low pressure will dominate the weather scene over the Atlantic into the new working week, bringing a change to wetter and windier weather across the UK from Tuesday.
“Further afield, Storm Diana has been named by IPMA (the official Portuguese Meteorological Authority) because of its expected impacts in the Azores on Tuesday. Diana will then merge with the established Atlantic low pressure area, helping to maintain the unsettled weather over the UK through midweek.”
However, the weather is expected to be much milder than it has been in the last week when parts of the UK have seen snow and ice and plummeting temperatures.
Deputy Chief Meteorologist, Dan Harris said: “It now looks very likely that we will see a major change in the UK’s weather early in the week ahead.
“We expect spells of wet and windy weather to sweep across the UK from the southwest from Tuesday, although at the moment there is uncertainty around the timing and the focus for the heaviest rain and strong winds by Wednesday as Storm Diana approaches our shores.”
Before the wet and windy conditions arrive, Sunday and Monday nights will be frosty in places and patchy fog may make driving conditions difficult in some areas.
