{"id":86827,"date":"2023-10-21T09:35:18","date_gmt":"2023-10-21T09:35:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebritytidings.com\/?p=86827"},"modified":"2023-10-21T09:35:18","modified_gmt":"2023-10-21T09:35:18","slug":"storm-babet-mapped-weather-tracker-and-graphics-show-path-of-storm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebritytidings.com\/world-news\/storm-babet-mapped-weather-tracker-and-graphics-show-path-of-storm\/","title":{"rendered":"Storm Babet MAPPED: Weather tracker and graphics show path of storm"},"content":{"rendered":"
Storm Babet is continuing to wreak havoc across the UK on Saturday after arriving on British shores earlier this week – as maps chart its eastward progress across the country.<\/p>\n
Maps show how the weather system is continuing to bring miserable weather to eastern parts of the UK after first touching down on Tuesday night – before it intensified throughout Thursday, Friday and Saturday.<\/p>\n
Yellow, amber and red weather warnings remain in place across much of eastern Scotland and northern England today – while flood agencies for each part of Great Britain have issued hundreds of alerts and warnings affecting thousands of people.<\/p>\n
As of 9.30am on Saturday, there were:<\/p>\n
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Weather warnings remain in place for much of northern Britain until later today – with most alerts due to expire at midnight<\/p>\n
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Hundreds of flood warnings (in red) and flood alerts (in orange) have been issued across England<\/p>\n
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Scottish environment authorities have issued five severe flood alerts on the east coast around Angus, where homes have been evacuated<\/p>\n
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In Wales, flood alerts – including a severe flood warning – have been issued across northern and central Wales<\/p>\n
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Vehicles have been abandoned across the country (pictured: a car and a lorry ditched in Chesterfield, Derbyshire) amid heavy flooding<\/p>\n
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In Brechin, Scotland, residents have been forced to abandon their homes (pictured) as the River South Est burst its banks after rising 5m above normal levels<\/p>\n
Pascal Lardet, from the Scottish Environment Protection Agency, told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme on Saturday: ‘The situation remains challenging with a difficult day ahead.’<\/p>\n
Meanwhile,\u00a0Clive Stanbrook, area manager at Derbyshire Fire & Rescue Service – which has declared a major incident – warned: ‘Everything is going to be dangerous today if you’re walking or travelling, so please travel if only absolutely necessary.’<\/p>\n
The storm has claimed the lives of three people since Thursday including two in Angus, Scotland: a 57-year-old woman who died after being swept into a river and a 56-year-old man in the region who was killed by a falling tree that struck his van.<\/p>\n
A man in his 60s died after getting caught in fast-flowing flood water in Cleobury Mortimer, Shropshire on Friday; police found his body two hours after he disappeared under the water.<\/p>\n
Storm Babet is named after a Dutch woman who, on a visit to the Netherlands’ national forecaster, said she was born during a fierce gale.<\/p>\n