Squally Wind News Today

Heavy to very heavy rainfall likely over north interior Tamil Nadu and adjoining Rayalaseema on December 9

The fact that we can reallyjust start welcoming people back is going to do a lotjust for our morale. i think its going to be really good for everyone. named after the sunrise, dawn the koala is perhaps a sign of better times ahead for australias beleaguered tourism industry. phil mercer, bbc news, sydney. how gorgeous is that koala? i think we need some lovely images this morning. the weather hasnt been providing us with too many of those? here is carol kirkwood. storm is coming in across northe...

The space of seven days. we still have a weather warning for storm franklin, this time it is yellow, the amber warning has now gone. it is valid until 1pm today for much of the uk and we could see wind speeds of 50 or 60 mph in land, with exposure around the coasts it could be even more than that. so, still some damaging wind, as we go through the course of the afternoon, this is what we can expect. we lose the 50s and 60s, again, while two showers and temperatures ranging from about six in the ...

Are currently without electricity. that was at around the height of the storm. the wind and rain has caused flooding in various locations, pumps have been brought into 0magh in county tyrone to protect houses and prevent rivers bursting their banks. there is travel disruption as well. some disruption to flights, and some ferries have been cancelled. rail transport, it is not a huge network in northern ireland, but it is running at a reduced speed because of the strength of the wind. the amber wa...

In the rail network as well, where the rail companies are basically telling people not to travel unless it is absolutely vital. but there wont be any golf going on here today. not for a couple of days, anyway. and when it does, it is going to be a little bit soggy. it certainly will. thank you for that update. lets cross to the antrim court coast, ballycastle, louise colin is there. there seas look incredibly rough behind you, and storm franklin is pretty much throwing everything at northern ire...

We are not done with the wind just yet. so, a busy week ahead for us when the weather. hope it is something quieterfor you in the sport. the chair of uk sport says its right to question how public funding for winter sports has been spent after team gb fell well short of their medal target for beijing. they won just two medals — both in curling, with the womens team claiming gold on the final day of the games. they had been set a target of three to seven. there were only 15 top—ten finishes f...