The Met Office has warned that Storm Erin could impact UK weather in the coming days as the tropical storm has already forced 1,500 people to evacuate their homes
Storm Erin is set to unleash chaos across the United States, with its ferocious gusts expected to generate deadly waves. Weather experts also anticipate the storm will affect the UK.
Maps from WX Charts reveal a massive swathe of wet weather from Wednesday, August 27. The rainfall band, seemingly stretching approximately 600 miles, is set to strike the UK simultaneously.
Tropical storms can affect UK weather if they get picked up by the jet stream, which occurred recently with Storm Floris. According to the Met Office, Storm Erin is likely to affect weather the UK in the latter part of the month, bringing intense winds and heavy rain.
Looking at the Met Office’s UK-wide long range weather forecast, they have warned of high pressure being “eroded” by frontal systems from the Atlantic.
The forecast for the period between August 22 and 31 reads: “High pressure is likely to be the dominant feature at first bringing widely fine and dry weather whilst a generally northerly flow leads to rather cool conditions.
“This will be increasingly eroded from the west as frontal systems start to move in from the Atlantic through the weekend, leading to more changeable conditions.
“Whilst this is happening a deep area of low pressure is likely to develop in the North Atlantic, linked to Hurricane Erin. This likely progresses towards the UK through the early part of the week.”
However, BBC weather presenter Simon King dismissed suggestions of a continuous downpour.
He explained: “These reports are simply suggesting that the low pressure containing the remnants of hurricane Erin would be 600 miles wide as it moves to the west of the UK, a size very typical for this type of weather system that affects the UK. Rain doesn’t fall in a continuous sheet stretching for hundreds of miles so there’ll be no ‘wall of rain’ to come with it either.”
Despite this, should online weather service WX Charts’ predictions prove accurate, millions of Britons from Kent to Enniskillen in Northern Ireland will experience downpours at some point.
The sole regions that might remain dry, based on WX Charts’ data, are north-east England and Northern Scotland. King suggests there could be “unsettled” conditions due to Erin, though given the storm’s considerable distance from the UK, making precise forecasts remains challenging.
He clarified: “Into next week the weather will eventually turn a little more unsettled with the remnants of what will be ex-hurricane Erin.
“While Erin is still over 3,000 miles away from the UK, it will eventually weaken as it moves across the North Atlantic and arrive to the west of the UK as an area of low pressure – a process we often see in the UK from mid-August as the hurricane season starts to pick up.
“And being over a week away, there are still lots of uncertainties with the forecast, but we could see some wet and at times windy weather from mid-week.”
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