UK climate reside: Met Office upgrades wind warning to pink ‘hazard to life’ alert as Goretti hits

Storm Goretti is "rapidly deepening now", in line with Sky News climate producer Jo Robinson.

The storm, which was named by the French meteorological service, will transfer in throughout the UK all through right this moment – bringing impacts akin to robust winds, heavy rain and heavy snow, Robinson mentioned.

She added the method of the storm "deepening" at pace is also referred to as explosive cyclogenesis – which is typically known as a "weather bomb".

That’s when the central stress of a storm drops by 24 millibars [a millibar is a unit of atmospheric pressure] or extra over 24 hours, Robinson defined.

"It will actually deepen close to 40mbs in the 24 hours between midnight Thursday and midnight Friday," she added.

As effectively as dealing with an approaching storm system, the UK can also be coping with temperatures which have been dropping – typically to new lows for this winter.

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