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Met Office warns Storm Boelo could bring gusts of up to 80mph

The Met Office forecasts that Storm Boelo will bring winds of up to 80mph to exposed coastal areas and high ground in parts of the UK this weekend. The storm is also expected to bring heavy rain to parts of northern England, Northern Ireland and Scotland on Saturday and Sunday.

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Key facts

Storm Boelo is described as the second named storm of the year and is expected to affect the UK (per aol.co.uk).
Storm Boelo is forecast to bring strong winds and heavy rain (per aol.co.uk).
Storm Boelo is forecast to bring strong winds and heavy rain to parts of northern England, Northern Ireland and Scotland on Saturday and Sunday (per aol.co.uk).
Forecast gusts of 50-60mph are possible more widely (per aol.co.uk).
The Met Office says Storm Boelo will involve a deep area of low pressure and bring impactful winds on Saturday night and into Sunday to northern parts of the UK (per aol.co.uk).
The Met Office says an active jet stream crossing the Atlantic will invigorate the weather system before it reaches Northern Ireland and western Scotland on Saturday afternoon (per aol.co.uk).

The brief

The Met Office forecasts that Storm Boelo could bring gusts of 70-80mph to exposed coastal areas and high ground in the UK this weekend. The storm is also expected to bring strong winds and heavy rain to parts of northern England, Northern Ireland and Scotland on Saturday and Sunday, according to AOL’s report of the Met Office forecast.

BBC headlines also describe a second storm heading for the UK with gusts of up to 80mph, while the Bournemouth Echo headline mentions heavy rain and strong wind. AOL reports that forecasters expect Boelo to involve a deep area of low pressure. The Met Office says the system will bring impactful winds to northern parts of the UK on Saturday night and into Sunday.

Gusts of 50-60mph are possible more widely, while exposed areas in Northern Ireland could see gusts of 65-75mph, the outlet reports. The Met Office says an active jet stream crossing the Atlantic will invigorate the weather system before it reaches Northern Ireland and western Scotland on Saturday afternoon.

The forecast places the strongest gusts in exposed coastal locations and high ground, with lower but still strong gusts expected more broadly. A yellow warning covers parts of Scotland and the northern reaches of England from 6pm Saturday until 9pm Sunday, according to AOL. A separate yellow wind warning for Northern Ireland runs from 6pm Saturday to 3pm Sunday.

The Northern Ireland warning cites gusts of 50-60mph generally and up to 65-75mph in exposed regions. AOL’s report also discusses Storm Austen, a separate weather system expected to bring heavy rain to the capital from around 11pm on Thursday and continuing into Friday. It says winds associated with Austen could reach 48mph by Friday afternoon.

The report distinguishes that forecast from Boelo’s weekend track and wind warnings. The BBC headlines say hundreds remain without power as the second storm approaches, but they do not provide further details about the outages.

The stated Boelo forecast identifies the affected areas, expected wind ranges and warning periods; the published warning windows are the key times specified for the storm.

Why it matters

Residents in exposed coastal areas and high ground face forecast gusts of up to 80mph; gusts of 50-60mph are possible more widely.
Parts of northern England and Scotland are covered by a yellow warning from 6pm Saturday to 9pm Sunday, with strong winds and heavy rain forecast.
Northern Ireland has a separate yellow wind warning from 6pm Saturday to 3pm Sunday, with gusts up to 65-75mph in exposed regions.

What to watch next

Whether the Met Office changes the yellow warning covering parts of Scotland and northern England, currently in force from 6pm Saturday to 9pm Sunday.
Whether the Northern Ireland yellow wind warning changes before it ends at 3pm Sunday.
Whether Storm Boelo brings the forecast gusts of 70-80mph to exposed coastal areas and high ground.

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Timeline

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1854
Robert FitzRoy established a meteorological department within the Board of Trade, the institution that became the Met Office.
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1861
In 1861, FitzRoy began issuing storm warnings to mariners.
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2015
The Met Office, which issues UK severe-weather warnings, introduced public storm naming with Met Éireann in 2015; the system gives a name to a storm forecast to have the potential for medium or high impacts.
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2019
The Netherlands’ KNMI joined the naming partnership in 2019, creating a shared list for the UK, Ireland and the Netherlands.
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Dec 5, 2024
The Met Office named Storm Darragh, which brought strong winds and heavy rain to the UK.
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How we got here

The Met Office, which issues UK severe-weather warnings, introduced public storm naming with Met Éireann in 2015; the system gives a name to a storm forecast to have the potential for medium or high impacts. The first joint UK–Ireland storm-name list covered the 2015–16 storm season, which ran from September 2015 to August 2016.

The Netherlands’ KNMI joined the naming partnership in 2019, creating a shared list for the UK, Ireland and the Netherlands. The Met Office traces its institutional origins to 1854, when Robert FitzRoy established a meteorological department within the Board of Trade to collect weather data and provide forecasts for shipping.