Lancashire weather forecast for week as Met Office predict storms to hit

Parts of the UK are set for heavy rain and flooding over the next few days ahead of the arrival of Storm Ciarán later this week.

Flood warnings are in place across parts of England, Scotland and Wales, while there are also yellow rain warnings for some of Northern Ireland. Ciarán is set to bring strong winds and heavy rain to southern England and Wales when it arrives on Thursday. . In Blackpool, Preston and Lancaster today it's set to be cloudy before rain sweeps in over the coming days.Met Office Deputy Chief Meteorologist, Chris Almond, said “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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