Storm Ciaran to unleash hell this week with 90mph gusts to batter Brits

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Storm Ciaran will bring a nightmare Halloween week as the 700 mile-wide Atlantic tempest will deliver three inches of rain and more flooding hell.

Ciaran – meaning “the dark one” – will hammer the South on Wednesday night and Thursday. Gales hitting 90mph are set to uproot trees, down power cables, block roads and disrupt rail and ferry services and flights.

Other parts also face blustery winds and heavy downpours. Millions of trick-or-treaters will battle Halloween washouts tomorrow evening in the South and Midlands.

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And Bonfire Night fireworks at the weekend are set to be a damp squib as winds and soakings hit.

The Weather Outlook forecaster Brian Gaze said: “Halloween week weather looks like a fright fest.

“Stormy weather may well lead to damage with gusts up to 80 or 90mph and more floods.”

Met Office Deputy Chief Meteorologist, Chris Almond agreed and said flooding is a risk.

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He explained: "Winds associated with Storm Ciarán are likely to gust to 80mph along the south coast of England, with a small risk of somewhere exposed seeing 90mph, and winds could even gust up to 50 or 60 mph further inland.

"This deep low-pressure system will also bring heavy rain to much of the UK, but the heaviest rain is expected in southern and western areas with 20 to 25mm quite widely across the region but up to 40 to 60mm potentially over higher ground.

"Heavy and persistent rain will fall onto already saturated ground bringing a risk of further impacts such as flooding in areas that are already struggling to clean up from the heavy rainfall we have seen over the last week or so."

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