Storm Babet causes ‘life-threatening conditions’ in Scotland

Storm Babet causes ‘life-threatening conditions’ in Scotland

Storm Babet causes ‘life-threatening conditions’ in Scotland

The rain is stored across Scotland and Northeast England and it's just been it just hasn't stopped and that's why we've been seeing so much over 24 hours and even though across Angus abiding Shar.

The rain has now eased. It will return tonight and into tomorrow hence. The reason why there's another red warning danger for life we're expecting even more rainfall up to 100 million.

Entire communities face a situation where they are cut off one man attempts to drive through this in the last few minutes. His car got stranded. One of the locals came along and tried to help him out of this but this is a danger to life. 

Storm Beet continues to cause dangerous weather conditions across parts of the UK. A 57-year-old woman lost her life in the eye of this storm yesterday in the Angus area. She was swept away by a river with 20-foot waves spotted on the coast and thousands are left without power. 

We can also tell you that police and Coast Guard are frantically continuing the search for a man who was trapped in his car in the Mary Kart area again uh this is the search continuing here in Dunde but there is also a big focus on the brain area the town of Bin where we were reporting from all day yesterday.

There was significant and sustained concern around the floodwaters potentially coming over and overwhelming the brand new flood defenses that were put in place in the last number of years for that to happen the water would have had to rise by more than 3.5 M well when we were waking up this morning confirmation that that is indeed what happened uh sepa the Scottish Environment Protection Agency those who deal with flood warnings here in Scotland suggesting that River potentially has risen by more than 5m.

A red weather warning has been issued uh across the northeast of Scotland. The rainfall that's happening across Scotland and the northeast of England but the winds that are coming with it, it's the combination of both which has caused some life-threatening conditions uh with tragic consequences.

This area of rain moved across into the early hours of Friday morning and it's stalled across Eastern Scotland in the far north of England but it's Eastern Scotland where we saw the greatest impacts and the amount of rainfall we've seen over the last 24 hours it's all almost I'd say unprecedented, we're looking at 100 to 150 160 millimeters of rain more than a month's worth of rain.

If you cast your mind back just two weeks ago we saw another record-breaking rainfall event and this one could supersede a lot of people right now indeed and you know it seems to be yeah there's a whole band of rain and wind.

The middle of the east coast of kind of Central Scotland but north of me 100 miles north of me around Brien for Mary Kirk all that sort of area um abrin Shure Angus you know that's where the southeast is about to burst its banks if it hasn't done that already since we've been on air that's where you've got immense flooding but the storms that are hitting kind of peers fortifications the top that's been ripped off a kind of mini Lighthouse uh in South Shields-type area and going wait a minute how have we got these kind of two peaks.

It's a huge area of rain and we've got three types of flooding going on here so I have just mentioned the es the North and South esque that in itself is uh Services Breen and that's why we have great concern and a focus on the community.

There but it's a combination of river flooding where there is a delay so the amount of water falls onto the mountainside and the hills and slowly moves down and then you have surface water flooding uh where you have blocked drains and just a sheer volume of water just allows roads to become rivers and then the other one and we've seen severe Gales gust up to 70 miles an hour along that strip of Coastline.

Which causes coastal flooding and you get these freak wind waves that also crash into the shoreline as well so the combination of three is pretty much a perfect storm and it affects communities in different ways depending on the topography.

About a week ago I mean it it seems to have changed on a dime it seems to be coming up from the south quite recently hence the reason why we've been seeing some high temperatures uh but this is where the storm has come from as well as it brewed across the Bay of Bisque so had some sort of high moisture content, high humidity content within it and as we know it's the law of physics. 

The higher the humidity the more heat you can be stored in a parcel of air and the combination of both produces a lot of rain and that's exactly what's happened.

But if you look at where it's um going to it's not going very far because to the north of that, we've got high-pressure sitting across Scandinavia which is acting as a barrier for anything pushing ever northeastwards hence the reason why the rain is stored across Scotland and Northeast England and it's just been it just hasn't stopped and that's why we've been seeing so much over 24 hours and even though across Angus abiding Sher.

The rain has now eased it will return tonight and into tomorrow hence the reason why there's another red warning danger for life.

We're expecting even more rainfall up to 100 million further across these parts yeah and uh it's certainly in my part of the world the wind are supposed to be even higher than they have been uh Luke.