The Met Office has announced that Storm Ashley will begin to ease off this week after high winds and torrential rain battered the country on Sunday.
As the storm moves north-east on Monday, a mix of sunny spells and scattered showers are expected to follow in its wake. However, forecasters say that the weather will become “unsettled” again later in the week, with heavy rain and aggressive winds expected to return.
The prediction comes after Storm Ashley brought torrential rain and 80mph winds to Scotland over the weekend. The weather caused chaos as 47 flood warnings were issued across Scotland and countless trains and ferries were cancelled.
But despite suggestions of further fallout from the storm, forecasters are also predicting another, brighter spell of weather before the end of the month, reports the Scottish Daily Express. Grim conditions will clear up over the Halloween weekend, as thousands of Scots children are expected to head out ‘guising’.
The Met Office has predicted that the weekend will begin turbulently, as “longer spells of rain may spread erratically southeastwards across parts of the UK”.
Although winds will remain strong, as the weekend progresses there is a “high pressure [will] build close to the UK” – a trend that could last into early November.
The long-range forecast explains: “This should offer some longer drier spells of weather, with an increased chance of frost and fog, which could be slow to clear in places.”
However, it also warns that conditions will “remain rather breezy or windy at times in the northwest” while there will be some “occasional outbreaks of rain here”.
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